Diocese of Pelplin
| Diocese of Pelplin | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Poland |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Gdansk |
| Diocesan bishop | Ryszard Kasyna |
| Auxiliary bishop | Arkadiusz Okroj |
| Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | Piotr Krupa |
| founding | 1243 |
| surface | 12,890 km² |
| Parishes | 290 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 775,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 725,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 93.5% |
| Diocesan priest | 528 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 89 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,175 |
| Permanent deacons | 1 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 93 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 184 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Polish , Kashubian |
| cathedral | Bazylika Katedralna Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny |
| address | Kuria Diecezjalna ul.Biskupa K. Dominika 11 83-130 Pelplin Polska |
| Website | www.diecezja-pelplin.pl |
The diocese of Pelplin ( Latin Dioecesis Pelplinensis , Polish Diecezja pelplińska ) is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Pelplin in Poland . It has existed since 1992 and emerged from the Kulm diocese .
history
Diocese of Kulm
In 1243/46 the bishopric of Kulm was founded in Prussia , the seat of the cathedral chapter was Culmsee (Chełmża), the bishops resided in Löbau (Lubawa). The city of Culm (Chełmno) was never the seat of the diocese. The diocese was incorporated into the Archdiocese of Riga .
In 1824 the cathedral chapter and the bishopric was moved to Pelplin. In 1829 the seminary was also moved there. Since autumn 1939, after the German occupation, over 200 clergymen of the diocese were killed , including almost the entire cathedral chapter and teachers of the seminary and the Collegium Marianum .
Diocese of Pelplin
On March 25, 1992, Pope John Paul II founded the new diocese Pelplin with the bull Totus tuus Poloniae populus . It was formed from large parts of the previous diocese of Kulm. The other parts (including the city of Chełmno (Kulm)) went to the diocese of Toruń . Both were subordinated to the Archdiocese of Danzig as suffragan dioceses .
Cathedral remained the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of the former Cistercian monastery .
Bishops
- Jan Bernard Szlaga 1992–2012
- Ryszard Kasyna , since 2012
Web links
- Entry for the diocese of Pelplin on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Diocese of Pelplin Episkopat.pl, statistical information (Polish)
- Pelplin diocesan archive address (German)
Individual evidence
- ^ European seminar - Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Kashubia 05-07 Maja 2006 roku, Parchim ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Totus Tuus Poloniae populus , AAS 84 (1992), n.3, pp. 1099-1112.
