Diocese of Breslau (Old Catholic)
The Diocese of Wroclaw ( Diecezja wrocławska ) is one of three dioceses of the Polish Catholic Church in the Republic of Poland .
prehistory
The first Old Catholic congregation arose in Breslau soon after the First Vatican Council in 1873. The first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany , Joseph Hubert Reinkens , was previously professor of Catholic theology at the University of Breslau . As a result of the expulsion of the German population, the German Old Catholic Church went under, down to the smallest remains.
history
The Polish Catholic Church, which was formally established in 1951, emerged from the mission of the Polish National Catholic Church , which established its own church hierarchy in motherland Poland and was divided into three dioceses due to the large number of around 100,000 members at the time.
present
The diocesan area extends over the Voivodeships of Greater Poland , Lower Silesia , Lebus , Opole and West Pomerania . It is currently divided into four deaneries and 20 parishes . The number of diocesans is around 4,300. The late medieval former Protestant civic church of St. Maria Magdalena in Wroclaw serves as the cathedral church .
Since the bishopric has been vacant for a long time , the diocese is administered by a diocesan administrator , the infulfilled dean Stanisław Bosy.