Roman Catholic Diocese of Zielona Góra and Gorzów

Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów

Dioecesis Viridimontanensis-Gorzoviensis

Diecezja Zielonogórsko-Gorzowska
Cathedral of the Assumption in Gorzów Wielkopolski
Location
CountryPoland
Ecclesiastical provinceSzczecin-Kamień
Statistics
Area10,805 km2 (4,172 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2020)
1,062,734
932,662 (87.8%)
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established1945
(as Apostolic Administration of Kamień, Lubusz and the Prelature of Piła)
8 June 1972
(As Diocese of Gorzów)
25 March 1992
(As Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów)
CathedralKatedra pw. Wniebowzięcia
Najświętszej Maryi Panny, Gorzów Wielkopolski
Co-cathedralKonkatedra św. Jadwigi in Zielona Góra
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopTadeusz Litynski
Metropolitan ArchbishopAndrzej Dzięga
Auxiliary BishopsAdrian Put
Bishops emeritusStefan Regmunt (Bishop Emeritus)
Paweł Socha (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus)
Website
Website of the Diocese
Map of Roman Catholic Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów

The Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów (Latin: Viridimontanensis-Gorzoviensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień.

Its cathedral is the Katedra Wniebowzięcia NMP in Gorzów Wielkopolski. It also has a co-cathedral dedicated to Hedwig of Silesia (called in Polish św. Jadwigi Śląskiej), in Zielona Góra, and a minor basilica, Bazylika Matki Bożej Rokitniańskiej, in Rokitno.

History

Statistics

As of 2014, it pastorally served 989,400 Catholics (85.3% of 1,160,000 total) on 14,814 km² in 267 parishes a 2 missions with 641 priests (542 diocesan, 99 religious), 283 lay religious (107 brothers, 176 sisters) and 53 seminarians. Like in most Polish dioceses, church attendance has declined in the 21st century. According to the statistics 28.1% of the dioceses population attended church services weekly in 2013, however more than 40% did so back in 2000.

Episcopal ordinaries

Apostolic Administrators and Vicars of Kamień, Lubusz and the Prelature of Piła with see in Gorzów Wielkopolski
  • 1945–1951: Administrator Edmund Nowicki (1900–1971), deposed and banished by Bolesław Bierut government
  • 1951–1952: Vicar Tadeusz Załuczkowski
  • 1952–1956: Vicar Zygmunt Szelążek
  • 1956–1958: Administrator Teodor Bensch (1903–1958)
  • 1958: Józef Michalski
  • 1958–1972 see below: Administrator Wilhelm Pluta (1910–1986), advanced to Bishop of Gorzów
Diocesan Bishops of Gorzów
  • Wilhelm Pluta (see above 1972.06.28 – death 1986.01.22)
  • Józef Michalik (1986.10.01 – 1992.03.25 see below)
Diocesan Bishops of Zielona Góra-Gorzów
  • Józef Michalik (see above 1992.03.25 – 1993.04.17), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Przemyśl (Poland) (1993.04.17 – retired 2016.04.30), Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Poland (1999 – 2004.03.18), President of Episcopal Conference of Poland (2004.03.18 – 2014.03.12), Vice-President of Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (2011.10.02 – 2014.10)
  • Adam Dyczkowski (1993.07.17 – 2007.12.29)
  • Stefan Regmunt (2007.12.29 – 2015.11.23)
  • Tadeusz Litynski (since 2015.11.23)

Auxiliary Bishops

See also

Co-Cathedral of St Hedwig in Zielona Góra
Bishop Tadeusz Lityński

References

  1. ^ Vatican Press Office, Resignations and Appointments, 28.06.2022, accessed 29 June 2022

Sources and external links

  • GCatholic.org, with Google satellite map - data for all sections
  • Catholic Hierarchy

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