Diocese of Łowicz

Diocese of Łowicz
Basic data
Country	Poland
Ecclesiastical province	Łódź
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Łódź
Diocesan bishop	Andrzej Franciszek Dziuba
Auxiliary bishop	Wojciech Tomasz Osial
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus	Józef Zawitkowski
Vicar General	Józef Zawitkowski
founding	1992
surface	5,806 km²
Dean's offices	21 (12/24/2008)
Parishes	167 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents	605,308 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics	604,685 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of	99.9%
Diocesan priest	311 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest	69 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest	1,591
Friars	73 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters	366 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Polish
cathedral	Bazylika Archikatedralna Świętego Stanisława Kostki
Website	www.diecezja.lowicz.pl

The Diocese of Łowicz ( Latin Dioecesis Lovicensis , Polish diecezja Łowicka ) is in Poland located diocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Łowicz ( German Lowitsch ).

Cathedral of the Assumption and St. Nicholas (minor basilica)

history

The diocese is one of the youngest Polish dioceses. It was founded during the restructuring of the Catholic Church in Poland by the Apostolic Constitution Totus Tuus Poloniae Populus of March 25, 1992 from areas of the Archdiocese of Warsaw , the Archdiocese of Łódź and the Diocese of Płock . The cathedral was elevated to a minor basilica on the occasion of a visit by Pope John Paul II in 1999 .

Ordinaries

Bishops

• 1992-2004 Alojzy Orszulik SAC
• since 2004 Andrzej Franciszek Dziuba

Auxiliary bishop

• 1992–2013 Józef Zawitkowski
• since 2015 Wojciech Tomasz Osial

Dean's offices

Biała Rawska Głowno Krośniewice Kutno -sw. Michała Archanioła Kutno -sw. Wawrzyńca Lubochnia Łęczyca Łowicz -Katedra Łowicz -sw. Duch Mszczonów

Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą Piątek Rawa Mazowiecka Sanniki Skierniewice -Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa Skierniewice -sw. Jakuba Sochaczew -Matki Bożej Nieustającej Pomocy Sochaczew -sw. Wawrzyńca Wiskitki Żychlin Żyrardów

Bishopric patron

• St. Victoria of Rome , December 18th / November 11th
• Sel. Honorat Koźmiński , December 16 / October 13

especially revered too

• St. Maximilian Kolbe , August 14th
• St. Stanislaus Papczyński , September 17th
• Sel. Bolesława Maria Lament , January 29th
• Sel. Franziska Siedliska , November 21
• Sel. Marcelina Darowska , January 5th
• Sel. Michał Wożniak
• Sel. Michael Oziębłowski
• Sel. Franciszek Drzewiecki
• Sel. Florian Stępniak

They were beatified on June 13, 1999 together with 108 martyrs of World War II in Warsaw.

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Łowicz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Polish)
• Entry on the Diocese of Łowicz on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Totus Tuus Poloniae populus , AAS 84 (1992), n.3, pp. 1099-1112.