St. Joseph Church in

Prudnik Prudnik (, , , ) is a town in southern Poland, located in the southern part of Opole Voivodeship near the border with the Czech Republic. It is the administrative seat of Prudnik County and Gmina Prudnik. Its population numbers 21,368 inhabitant ...

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 ...

, is a

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church, part of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Opole The Diocese of Opole ( is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Opole in the ecclesiastical province of Katowice in Poland. History * 1945: Established as Apostolic Administration of Opole * 28 June 1972: Established as D ...

. It's located on the Józefa Poniatowskiego Street. The church was built in 1866. It was partially destroyed during the battle of Prudnik in 1945.

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Stefan Wyszyński Stefan Wyszyński (3 August 1901 – 28 May 1981) was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Warsaw and Archbishop of Gniezno from 1948 to 1981. He previously served as Bishop of Lublin from 1946 to 1948. He was created a ...

was prisoned here from 1954 to 1955 by the

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Sanktuarium św. Józefa - Prudnik-Las
{{coord missing, Opole Voivodeship Buildings and structures in Prudnik

19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Poland

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