Archiocese of Warsaw Archidioecesis Varsaviensis Archidiecezja Warszawska |
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St. John's Cathedral after the post-war reconstruction
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Location | |
Country | Poland |
Statistics | |
Area | 3,350 km2 (1,290 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2014) 1,540,000 1,425,000 (92.5%) |
Parishes | 210 |
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Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Latin Rite (or Roman Rite) |
Established | 16 October 1798 (As Diocese of Warszawa)30 June 1818 (Archdiocese of Warsaw) |
Cathedral | St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz |
Auxiliary Bishops |
Piotr Jarecki Rafał Markowski Michał Janocha |
Emeritus Bishops | Marian Duś, (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus) |
Website | |
Website of the Archdiocese |
The Archdiocese of Warsaw is a Catholic ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Poland encompassing the Polish capital. It was erected on October 16, 1798. It was elevated to an Archdiocese on June 30, 1813.
A Metropolitan See, its suffragan dioceses are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga. According to the church statistics 30.4 % of the dioceses population attended a church weekly in 2013. This is higher than a year earlier (29.8%) however that doesn't mean that church attendance isn't declining at all there.
The current Archbishop, Kazimierz Nycz, formerly Bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland, was named on 3 March 2007. Following the abrupt resignation of Archbishop Stanisław Wielgus in January, Józef Cardinal Glemp had been named its Apostolic Administrator.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.