The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kraków (, ) is a
Latin
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archdiocese of the
Catholic Church
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located in the city of
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
in
Poland
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. As of 2013 weekly mass attendance was 51.3% of the population (fourth highest in Poland after the dioceses of: Tarnów-69.0%, Rzeszów-64.1% and Przemyśl-58.8%).
History
*1000: Established as Diocese of Kraków from the
Diocese of Poznań
*October 28, 1925: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kraków
Special churches
*Minor Basilicas:
**Basilica of the Body and Blood of Christ,
Kazimierz
**Bazylika Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa, Kraków
**Bazylika Nawiedzenia NMP, Kraków
**Bazylika Ofiarowania Najświętszej Maryi Panny,
Wadowice
Wadowice () is a town in southern Poland, southwest of Kraków with 17,455 inhabitants (2022), situated on the Skawa river, confluence of Vistula, in the eastern part of Silesian Foothills (Pogórze Śląskie). Wadowice is known for being the bir ...
**Bazylika św. Floriana, Kraków (
Kleparz)
**Bazylika św. Franciszka z Asyżu OO. Franciszkanów, Kraków
**Bazylika Trójcy Świętej OO. Dominikanów, Kraków
**Bazylika Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny (Bazylika Mariacka), Kraków
**Sanktuarium Pasyjno - Maryjne,
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
*Minor & International Shrine:
**Bazylika Bożego Miłosierdzia,
Kraków-Łagiewniki
Leadership
*
List of Roman Catholic bishops of Kraków
Suffragan dioceses
*
Bielsko–Żywiec
*
Kielce
Kielce (; ) is a city in south-central Poland and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the banks of the Silnic ...
*
Tarnów
Tarnów () is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants. The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east– ...
See also
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Roman Catholicism in Poland
*
The Lesser Polish Way
Sources
GCatholic.orgDiocese website
Krakow
10th-century establishments in Poland
1000 establishments in Europe
Christianity in Kraków
Krakow
Religious organizations established in the 1000s
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