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. It is dedicated to

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and located at on Leopold Markiefki street.

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initiated the building of new church in the

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neighbourhood to replace St. Dorothea's church; it was finished by 1894 and on October 25 of the same year it was consecrated by

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Georg Kopp. The building was designed by the architect Paweł Jackisch. Slaskie Travel website, ''The Church of St Stephen in Katowice Bogucice''
/ref> In 1994 the church was painted. At its 100th birthday, all former priests visited the church. In July 2006 the Calvari altar was renovated.

References

External links

Church official website
Churches completed in 1894 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Poland

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