The Diocese of Płock () is a
Latin Church
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diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
of the
Catholic Church
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located in the city of
Płock
Płock (pronounced ), officially the Ducal Capital City of Płock, is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by Central Statistical Office (Poland), GUS on 31 December 2021, the ...
in the
ecclesiastical province
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of
Warszawa in
Poland
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.
Sunday mass attendance in 2013 was 30.7% of the population (39.1% Polish average) placing it to the group of less religious dioceses in the country.
History
* 1075: Established as Diocese of Płock
* During the
German occupation of Poland
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(
World War II
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), the Archbishop of Płock
Antoni Julian Nowowiejski and the auxiliary Bishop were imprisoned in the village of
Słupno, and then in 1941 murdered in the
Soldau concentration camp, where also many other priests from Płock were killed. Nowowiejski and Wetmański are now considered two of the
108 Blessed Polish Martyrs of World War II by the
Catholic Church
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. The Cathedral's ancient treasury, church archives and the diocesan library in Płock were
robbed by the Germans, and taken to museums in
Königsberg
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,
Wrocław
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and
Berlin
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.
* 2018: Płock Cathedral along with the entire ''Wzgórze Tumskie'' ("Tumskie Hill") listed by the President of Poland as a
Historic Monument of Poland.
Special churches
*Minor Basilicas:
** Bazylika pw. Zwiastowania NMP,
Czerwińsk(''Assumption'')
** Bazylika pw. Zwiastowania NMP (Parafię św. Mateusza),
Pułtusk
Pułtusk () is a town in Poland, by the river Narew. Located north of Warsaw in the Masovian Voivodeship, it has a population of 19,224 as of 2023. Known for its historic architecture and Europe's longest paved marketplace ( in length), it is a po ...
(''Annunciation'')
Leadership
*
Bishop
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s of Płock (Roman rite)
** Archbishop
Wojciech Baranowski (1591–1607)
** Archbishop
Henryk Firlej (1617–1624)
** Bishop
Jan Gembicki (1655.05.11 – 1674.03.13)
** Bishop
Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski (1692.10.15 – 1699.05.25)
** Bishop
Andrzej Stanisław Załuski
Andrzej Stanisław Kostka Załuski (2 December 1695 – 16 December 1758) was a priest (bishop) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In his religious career he held the posts of abbot and later Bishop of Płock (from 1723), bishop of Ł ...
(1723.11.22 – 1736.11.19)
** Bishop
Antoni Sebastian Dembowski (1737–?)
** Bishop
Józef Eustachy Szembek (1753–1758)
** Archbishop
Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (1773–1784)
** Bishop
Iraklij Listovskyj (1783 – 1809.08.30)
** Bishop
Krzysztof Hilary Szembek (1784.10.02 – 1797.09.05)
** Bishop
Ivan Krasovskyj (1809.09.22 – 1826)
** Bishop
Tomasz Ostaszewski,
S.J. (1815.09.04 – 1817.01.17)
** Bishop
Adam Michał Prażmowski (1818–?)
** Archbishop
Wincenty Teofil Popiel (1863.03.16 – 1875.07.05)
** Archbishop
Franciszek Albin Symon (1897.07.21 – 1901.04.15)
** Archbishop
Jerzy Józef Szembek (1901.04.16 – 1903.11.09)
** Archbishop
Apollinary Wnukowski (1904.04.01 – 1908)
** Archbishop
Antoni Julian Nowowiejski (1908.06.12 – 1941.05.28)
** Bishop
Tadeusz Paweł Zakrzewski (1946.04.12 – 1961.11.26)
** Bishop
Bogdan Sikorski (1964.01.21 – 1988.02.04)
** Archbishop
Zygmunt Kamiński (1988.02.04 – 1999.05.01)
** Archbishop
Stanisław Wielgus (1999.05.24 – 2006.12.06)
** Bishop
Piotr Libera (2007.05.02 – 2022.06.04)
** Bishop
Szymon Stułkowski (since 2022.10.31)
See also
*
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 ...
References
Sources
GCatholic.org Diocese website
11th-century establishments in Poland
1075 establishments in Europe
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