Archiocese of Warsaw Archidioecesis Varsaviensis Archidiecezja Warszawska | |
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Location | |
Country | Poland |
Statistics | |
Area | 3,350 km2 (1,290 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2020) 1,558,000 1,467,000 (94,2%) |
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 |
Website | |
Website of the Archdiocese |
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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.
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See List of bishops and archbishops of Warsaw for all ordinarily of this diocese, as well as auxiliary bishops.
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