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The Roman Catholic Church in Poland comprises mainly sixteen Latin ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan, whose archdioceses have a total of 28 suffragan dioceses, each headed by a bishop.
Ever since Poland officially adopted Christianity in 966, the Catholic Church has played an important religious, cultural and political role in the country post-schism.. Identifying oneself as Catholic distinguished Polish culture and nationality from neighbouring Germany, especially eastern and northern Germany, which is mostly Lutheran, and the countries to the east which are Eastern Ort
March 25, 1992: Established as Diocese of Warszawa – Praga from the Diocese of Płock and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Warszawa; May 24, 2008: Archbishop Henryk Hoser S.A.C., adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and president of the Pontifical Mission Societies, was appointed as bishop of Warszawa-Praga (area 3,300, population 1,113,000, Catholics 1,088,000 ...
This is a list of the Catholic dioceses in Europe, i.e. dioceses of the Catholic Church. In Europe, there are a large number of dioceses principally centred in the countries of Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, and Poland. Italy has the largest number of dioceses per capita of any country, although Brazil has more in total.
A Metropolitan See, its suffragan dioceses are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga. According to the archdiocese's statistics, 30.4% of its population attended a church weekly in 2013. That is higher than a year earlier (29.8%) but church attendance may still be declining.
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kraków (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Cracovien(sis), Polish: Archidiecezja Metropolita Krakowska) is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Kraków in Poland. As of 2013 weekly mass attendance was 51.3% of the population (fourth highest in Poland after the dioceses of: Tarnów-69 ...
Map of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Poznań. The Archdiocese of Poznań (Latin: Archidioecesis Posnaniensis, Polish: Archidiecezja poznańska) is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church. It is one of 14 archdioceses located in Poland, with the seat located in Poznań.
The Diocese of Tarnów (Latin: Dioecesis Tarnoviensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland. According to Church statistics, it is the most religious diocese in Poland, with 72.5% weekly Mass attendance. [4] Bishop Jeż