Damian Zimoń (born 25 October 1934) is

metropolitan Metropolitan may refer to: * Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories * Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England * Metropolitan county, a typ ...

archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...

emeritus of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice The Archdiocese of Katowice ( la, Katovicen(sis)) is the Latin Metropolitan archdiocese of an ecclesiastical province in Western Poland. Special churches Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Archikatedra Chrystusa Króla, dedicated to Christ th ...

. He was born in

Niedobczyce Niedobczyce (german: Niebobschütz) is a district of Rybnik, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. Between 1955 and 1975 it was an independent town On December 31, 2013 it had about 12,300 inhabitants. History The village was first mentioned in ...

, now a district of Rybnik. In 1992 the rank of bishop of Katowice was upgraded to that of an archbishop, as the diocese became an archdiocese, and Zimoń became the first Archbishop of Katowice.

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Archbishop Damian Zimoń
on catholic-hierarchy.org 1934 births Living people Pontifical University of John Paul II alumni 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Poland 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Poland People from Rybnik Roman Catholic archbishops of Katowice Roman Catholic bishops of Katowice {{Poland-RC-bishop-stub