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The St. Stanislaus and St. Wenceslaus Cathedral (), also called Åšwidnica Cathedral, is a historical monument and a main Catholic building in
Åšwidnica Åšwidnica (; ; ) is a city on the Bystrzyca (Oder), Bystrzyca River in south-western Poland in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. As of 2021, it has a population of 55,413 inhabitants. It is the seat of Åšwidnica County, and also of the smaller dis ...
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Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
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History

Construction of the current church began in 1330 at the behest of Duke Bolko II of Åšwidnica, following a fire that destroyed a wooden building that stood there. The new building, in Gothic style, was designed as a three-aisled basilica with a slender Gothic tower that measures 102 meters, the largest in the region. Between 1400 and 1410 the building was expanded. In years 1535-1546 the church was renovated after it was greatly damaged in the fire of 1532. From 1561 to 1629 the church was owned by
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. From 1662 it belonged to the
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who in the years 1671-1688 have added to it baroque furniture and decorations that still characterize its interior. With the gradual expulsion of the Jesuits of Prussian Silesia, the church was secularized in 1772 and the Prussian authorities converted it into a barn. The church was renovated between 1893 and 1895 but lost many of its original architectural features. On March 25, 2004, with the bull ''Multos fructus'', of Pope John Paul II, established the Catholic Diocese of Åšwidnica, and the building became the cathedral.


See also

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Roman Catholicism in Poland Polish members of the Catholic Church, like elsewhere in the world, are under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The Latin Church includes 41 dioceses. There are three eparchies of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the country ...
* St. Stanislaus


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Åšwidnica Åšwidnica (; ; ) is a city on the Bystrzyca (Oder), Bystrzyca River in south-western Poland in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. As of 2021, it has a population of 55,413 inhabitants. It is the seat of Åšwidnica County, and also of the smaller dis ...
16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Poland