Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga location map

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga ( la, Varsavien(sis) – Pragen(sis)) is a

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located in the east part of

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

(

Praga Praga is a district of Warsaw, Poland. It is on the east bank of the river Vistula. First mentioned in 1432, until 1791 it formed a separate town with its own city charter. History The historical Praga was a small settlement located at ...

) in the

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Warszawa Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officiall ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

. According to the church statistics about 31,4% attended a church at least once a week and about 14,6% took communion regularly (once a week or more often) in 2013.

History

* March 25, 1992: Established as Diocese of Warszawa – Praga from the

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and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Warszawa * May 24, 2008: Archbishop Henryk Hoser S.A.C., adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and president of the

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, was appointed as bishop of Warszawa-Praga (area 3,300, population 1,113,000, Catholics 1,088,000, priests 650, religious 1,623), Poland. He conserves his personal title of archbishop.

Special churches

*Minor Basilicas: ** Bazylika Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego in Praga (''Sacred Heart'') ** Bazylika Trójcy Przenajświętszej in Kobyłka (''Holy Trinity'') ** Bazylika Katedralna św. Michała Archanioła
i św. Floriana Męczennika
(''Cathedral Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel
and St. Florian'')

Leadership

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s of Warszawa-Praga (Roman rite) ** Bishop Kazimierz Romaniuk (1992–2004) ** Archbishop Sławoj Leszek Głódź (2004–2008) ** Archbishop Henryk Hoser (2008-2017) ** Bishop

Romuald Kamiński Romuald Kamiński (born 7 February 1955, Janówka, Poland) is a Polish Roman Catholic priest who has served as bishop of Warszawa-Praga since 2017. He previously served as the auxiliary bishop of Ełk between 2005 and 2017. Biography Kamińs ...

(since 2017)

Sex Abuse Reports

On September 27, 2018, Bishop Romuald Kamiński apologized for the history of sex abuse of minors in the Diocese. He also stated that work on a document addressing the Polish Catholic Church on the abuse of minors and suggesting ways to prevent it was completed. Archbishop

Wojciech Polak Wojciech Polak (born 19 December 1964) is the Roman Catholic archbishop of Gniezno, Poland, since his appointment on 17 May 2014. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of Gniezno. Biography Early life Polak was born in 1964 in Inowrocł ...

, who serves as the

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and with data from over 10,000 local parishes. It was found that from 1990 to mid-2018, abuse reports about 382 priests were made to the Church, with 625 children, mostly under 16, sexually abused by members of the Catholic clergy. There were opinions that the figures underestimated the extent of the problem, and failed to answer questions church officials had avoided for years. Marek Lisinski, the co-founder of ''Don’t Be Afraid'', which represents victims of clerical abuse, said "Tell us how

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hurt those children and how many times they were transferred to different parishes before you paid notice". The data were released a few weeks after

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had called for "an all-out battle against the abuse of minors". After pressure from the Pope, in the preceding years Poland's church had publicly apologized to abuse victims, and accepted the need to report those accused of such crimes. In earlier times clergy to whom sexual abuse of minors was reported were not required by their superiors to notify the police, but to investigate themselves, and if necessary inform the Vatican.

Sources

GCatholic.org

Diocese website

References