The Lutheran Diocese of Wrocław is one of the six dioceses of 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 ...

Location

The Lutheran Diocese of Wrocław is located in western

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 populou ...

. It ranges from

Kłodzko Kłodzko (; cz, Kladsko; german: Glatz; la, Glacio) is a historic town in south-western Poland, in the region of Lower Silesia. It is situated in the centre of the Kłodzko Valley, on the Eastern Neisse river. Kłodzko is the seat of Kłodzko ...

in the south to the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and ...

coast in the north. The territory of the Lutheran Diocese of Wrocław comprises

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...

Lubusz Lebus ( pl, Lubusz) is a historic town in the Märkisch-Oderland District of Brandenburg, Germany. It is the administrative seat of ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") Lebus. The town, located on the west bank of the Oder river at the border with ...

, and the western part of

West Pomerania Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (german: Vorpommern), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania forming the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, Weste ...

Organizational structure

Today, the Lutheran Diocese of Wrocław has 16 parishes. Current bishop is

Ryszard Bogusz Ryszard Bogusz (born 2 March 1951 in Bielsko-Biała) is a Lutheran theologian and bishop of the ''diocese Wroclaw'' of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland. In 1976 he entered as vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, ...

since 1994.

List of Bishops

* Waldemar Preiss : 1947~1952 * Gustaw Gerstenstein : 1952~1958 * Waldemar Lucer : 1958~1979 * Józef Prośpiech : 1980~1994 *

: 1994~

External links

Official Homepage of Lutheran Diocese Wroclaw (pol.)
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