The Diocese of Masuria is one of the six dioceses constituting the
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Republic of Poland ( pl, Kościół Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Lutheran denomination and the largest Protestant body in Poland with about 61,000 members and ...
. The diocesan headquarters are located in
Kętrzyn
Kętrzyn (, until 1946 ''Rastembork''; german: link=yes, Rastenburg ) is a town in northeastern Poland with 27,478 inhabitants (2019). Situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (since 1999), Kętrzyn was previously in Olsztyn Voivodeship (197 ...
.
Location
The Diocese of Masuria is located in northeastern
Poland
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. Its territory extends in the north to the border with
Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...
and in the east to the border with
Belarus
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. It includes
Warmian-Masurian and
Podlachian Voivodeships
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.
List of Bishops of Masuria
*
Edmund Fiszke : 1946~1958
*
Alfred Jagucki : 1959~1963
**''Vacant (1963~1966)''
*
Paweł Kubiczek : 1966~1991
*
Rudolf Bażanowski : 1992~2018
*
Paweł Hause : 2018~
External links
Official Homepage of The Diocese of Masuria(pol.)
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
Lutheran dioceses in Poland
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