Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warsaw

The Archdiocese of Warsaw is a Catholic ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Poland encompassing the Polish capital. It was erected on October 16, 1798. It was elevated to an Archdiocese on June 30, 1813.

For the Lutheran diocese, see Lutheran Diocese of Warsaw.

Archiocese of Warsaw Archidioecesis Varsaviensis Archidiecezja Warszawska
St. John's Cathedral after the post-war reconstruction
Location
Country	Poland
Statistics
Area	3,350 km^2 (1,290 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 1,540,000 1,425,000 ( 92.5%)
Parishes	210
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite (or Roman Rite)
Established	16 October 1798 (As Diocese of Warszawa)30 June 1818 (Archdiocese of Warsaw)
Cathedral	St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz
Auxiliary Bishops	Piotr Jarecki Rafał Markowski Michał Janocha
Bishops emeritus	Marian Duś, (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus)
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

A Metropolitan See, its suffragan dioceses are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga. According to the church's statistics, 30.4% of the dioceses population attended a church weekly in 2013. That is higher than a year earlier (29.8%) but church attendance may still be declining.

Archbishop of Warsaw

The current Archbishop, Kazimierz Nycz, formerly Bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland, was named on 3 March 2007. Following the abrupt resignation of Archbishop Stanisław Wielgus in January, Józef Cardinal Glemp had been named its Apostolic Administrator.

See also

• List of bishops and archbishops of Warsaw

References

• "Archdiocese of Warszawa {Warsaw}". Catholic-Hierarchy.
• "Warsaw". Catholic Encyclopedia.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "article name needed". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

External links

• "The English Speaking Community of the Archdiocese of Warsaw".
• "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Warszawa".