The Diocese of Elbląg ( la, Elbingen(sis)) is a
Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or
diocese located in the city of
Elbląg
Elbląg (; german: Elbing, Old Prussian: ''Elbings'') is a city in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, located in the eastern edge of the Żuławy region with 117,390 inhabitants, as of December 2021. It is the capital of Elbląg County.
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in
Poland. It is a
suffragan diocese
A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ...
in the
ecclesiastical province of the
metropolitan
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* 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 ...
Archdiocese of Warmia
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warmia ( pl, Archidiecezja warmińska, german: Erzdiözese Ermland) is a Metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
The archbishop has his ...
.
History
The diocese was established on March 25, 1992 as the Diocese of Elbląg from the
Diocese of Chelmno
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
,
Diocese of Gdańsk and Diocese of Warmia. According to the Catholic Church statistics 28.4% of the population went to church once a week in 2013 which was the lowest rank ever since 1980.
Leadership
*
Bishops of Elbląg
** Bishop
Jacek Jezierski
Jacek Jezierski (1722–1805) was a Polish writer and businessman, a member of the Polish nobility and a political writer. From 1775 he was the castellan (governor of the castle) of the town of Łuków. He was also manager of the personal domain of ...
(since 2014.06.08)
**Bishop
Jan Styrna (2003.08.02 – 2014.05.10)
**Bishop
Andrzej Śliwiński (1992.03.25 – 2003.08.02)
Special churches
* Former Cathedrals:
** Konkatedra św. Jana Chrzciciela w Kwidzynie,
Kwidzyn
** Konkatedra św. Wojciecha,
Prabuty
Prabuty (german: Riesenburg) is a town in Kwidzyn County within the Pomeranian Voivodeship of northern Poland. Before World War I, the town belonged to the German province of West Prussia. It was ceded to Poland in 1945. Between 1975 and 1998, P ...
See also
*
Roman Catholicism in Poland
Sources
GCatholic.orgDiocese website
Roman Catholic dioceses in Poland
Roman Catholic Diocese of Elbląg
Christian organizations established in 1992
Roman Catholic Diocese of Elbląg
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
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