The Archdiocese of Katowice ( la, Katovicen(sis)) is the Latin Metropolitan

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of an ecclesiastical province in Western Poland.

Special churches

Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Archikatedra Chrystusa Króla, dedicated to

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, in the city of

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...

Śląskie Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( pl, województwo śląskie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ('), with Katowice serving as its capital. Despite the Silesian V ...

. It has several Minor basilicas : * Bazylika św. Ludwika Króla i Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny, also in Katowice * Bazylika Narodzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny (Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Uśmiechniętej), in

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* Bazylika NMP i św. Bartłomieja Apostoła (Sanktuarium Matki Sprawiedliwości i Miłości Społecznej), in Piekary Śląskie * Bazylika św. Antoniego Padewskiego, in Rybnik.

Province

Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and these

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bishoprics : *

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History

On 7 November 1922, the Holy See disentangled the Roman Catholic parishes in the Polish

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, territorially comprising the East of formerly Austrian Cieszyn Silesia (since 1918) and formerly German East Upper Silesia (since 1922) from the then

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as a permanent Apostolic Administration of Upper Silesia on 17 December the same year. * On 28 October 1925,

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elevated that apostolic administration and renamed it after its see to Diocese of Katowice, then as

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of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kraków, by the papal Bull ''Vixdum Poloniae Unitas''. * In 1947, it lost territory to establish the

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. * It enjoyed Papal visits from the Polish Pope John Paul II in June 1983 and June 1999. * It was promoted on March 25, 1992 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Katowice.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,448,500 Catholics (97.4% of 1,487,500 total) on 2,400 km² in 319 parishes and 6 missions with 1,088 priests (963 diocesan, 125 religious), 1 deacon, 1,005 lay religious (189 brothers, 816 sisters) and 117 seminarians.

Episcopal ordinaries

''(all Latin Rite) ;''Apostolic Administrator of Upper Silesia'' * August Hlond, Salesians (S.D.B.) (1922.11.07 – 1925.10.28 ''see below'') ;''Suffragan Bishops of Katowice'' * August Hlond (''see above'' 1925.12.14 – 1926.06.24), also President of Episcopal Conference of Poland (1926 – 1948.10.22), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno–Poznan (Poland) (1926.06.24 – 1948.10.22), created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace (1927.12.22 – 1948.10.22), Founder of Society of Christ for Polish Immigrants (1932.09.08), Metropolitan Archbishop of Warszawa (Poland) (1946.06.13 – death 1948.10.22) *

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(1926.06.24 – death 1930.05.13) * Stanisław Adamski (1930.09.02 – death 1967.11.12) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Teofilo Bromboszcz (1934.03.24 – death 1937.01.12), Titular Bishop of

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(1934.03.24 – 1937.01.12) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Juliusz Bieniek (1937.03.13 – death 1978.01.17), Titular Bishop of

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(1937.03.13 – 1978.01.17) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Józef Kurpas (1962.11.23 – death 1992.05.19)Titular Bishop of Orisa (1962.11.23 – 1992.05.19) *

Herbert Bednorz Herbert Bednorz (25 September 1908 in Gliwice – 12 April 1989 in Katowice) was a Polish Catholic priest, theologist, and a Coadjutor bishop (from 1950) and later, from 1967, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Katowice The Archdiocese of ...

(1967.11.12 – retired 1983), succeeding as former

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of Katowice (1950.05.04 – 1967.11.12) & Titular Bishop of Bulla regia (1950.05.04 – 1967.11.12) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Czesław Domin (1970.06.06 – 1992.02.01), Titular Bishop of Dagnum (1970.06.06 – 1992.02.01), later Bishop of Koszalin–Kołobrzeg (Poland) (1992.02.01 – death 1996.03.15) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Janusz Edmund Zimniak (1980.09.25 – 1992.03.25), Titular Bishop of Polignano (1980.09.25 – ...), next as Auxiliary Bishop of Bielsko–Żywiec (Poland) (1992.03.25 – retired 2010.01.16) *

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(1985.06.03 – see promotion 1992.03.25 ''see below'') ** Auxiliary Bishop:

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(1988.03.18 – retired 2012.01.31), Titular Bishop of Sala Consilina (1988.03.18 – ...) ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Katowice'' *

(''see above'' 1992.03.25 – retired 2011.10.29) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Piotr Libera (1996.11.23 – 2007.05.02), Titular Bishop of

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(1996.11.23 – 2007.05.02), also Secretary General of Episcopal Conference of Poland (1998 – 2007); later Bishop of Płock (Poland) (2007.05.02 – ...) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Stefan Cichy (1998.08.26 – 2005.03.19), Titular Bishop of Bonusta (1998.08.26 – 2005.03.19), later Bishop of

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(Poland) (2005.03.19 – 2014.04.16) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Józef Piotr Kupny (2005.12.21 – 2013.05.18), Titular Bishop of

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(2005.12.21 – 2013.05.18), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Wrocław (Breslau, Poland) (2013.05.18 – ...) *

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(2011.10.29 – ...), formerly Bishop of Tarnów (Poland) (1997.12.13 – 2011.10.29) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Marek Szkudło (2014.12.13 – ...), Titular Bishop of

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(2014.12.13 – ...) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Adam Wodarczyk (2014.12.13 – ...), Titular Bishop of Pomezania (2014.12.13 – ...).

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links - data for all sections

Diocese website
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