Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warsaw

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Archiocese of Warsaw

Archidioecesis Varsaviensis

Archidiecezja Warszawska
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St. John's Cathedral after the post-war reconstruction
Location
Country Poland
Statistics
Area3,350 km2 (1,290 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2020)
1,558,000
1,467,000 (94,2%)
Parishes210
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Latin Rite (or Roman Rite)
Established16 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

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

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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.

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 List of bishops and archbishops of Warsaw for all ordinarily of this diocese, as well as auxiliary bishops.

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