Archdiocese of Poznan
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Archdiocese of Poznan
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| Country | Poland |
| Diocesan bishop | Stanisław Gądecki |
| Auxiliary bishop |
Grzegorz Balcerek Damian Bryl Szymon Stułkowski |
| Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | Zdzisław Fortuniak |
| Vicar General | Grzegorz Balcerek |
| founding | November 12, 1948 |
| surface | 9,700 km² |
| Dean's offices | 42 (23/12/2008) |
| Parishes | 412 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 1,500,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 1,480,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 98.7% |
| Diocesan priest | 755 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 324 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,372 |
| Friars | 564 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 1,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Polish |
| cathedral | Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul |
| Website | www.archpoznan.pl |
| Suffragan dioceses | Diocese of Kalisz |
The Archdiocese of Poznan ( lat. Archidioecesis Posnaniensis , Polish. Archidiecezja Poznańska ) is a Metropolitan - Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , based in Poznan .
history
The diocese of Poznan is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in Poland, its origins go back to the 10th century , the time when the Polish state was founded under the first Piasts . Duke Mieszko I of Poland subordinated his kingdom to the spiritual primacy of the Holy See , whereupon Pope John XIII. the mission bishop Jordanes sent to Posen, who baptized Duke Mieszko in 966. In 968 he took possession of the recently completed Poznan Bishop's Church , the predecessor of the Poznan Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul , and went down in history as the first successor to the Apostles on Polish soil. As the founder of a new national church, like the popes, he was entitled to the patronage of the apostle Peter for his cathedral. Initially, until the Archdiocese of Gniezno and its suffragan dioceses Krakow , Kolberg and Wroclaw were founded in 1000, the jurisdiction of the Poznan bishops comprised the entire territory of the Piasts.
Around 1075 the diocese of Posen was also attached to the church province of Gniezno as a suffragan . When the country was divided into dioceses at that time, a large part of Mazovia and Warsaw remained with the Bishopric of Poznan, which only changed in 1798 with the establishment of the Bishopric of Warsaw .
With the Lubrański Academy founded by Bishop Jan Lubrański in 1518 , Poznan rose to become the second most important educational location in Poland after Kraków .
In 1821 the diocese of Posen was raised to the rank of archbishopric and metropolitan seat and was linked in personal union with the archbishopric of Gniezno. The archbishopric of Poznan and Gniezno represented a bulwark of organized resistance in the 19th century , during the time of the partition of Poland and the so-called Kulturkampf against Catholicism and Poland, which was initiated by the Prussian government . Numerous priests, including Archbishop Mieczysław Cardinal Halka-Ledóchowski , had suffer reprisals as a result.
In 1946 the personal union between Gniezno and Posen was canceled when Pope Pius XII. appointed the Primate of Poland, Archbishop August Cardinal Hlond of Gniezno and Poznan, Metropolitan of Gniezno and Warsaw. In 1983 Pope John Paul II visited the Archdiocese of Poznan and beatified Ursula Ledóchowska during the first beatification on Polish soil . In 1997 he stayed in Poznan again. In 2003 Ursula Ledóchowska was canonized in Rome and has since been one of the patrons of the Archdiocese of Poznan.
Since the resignation of Archbishop Juliusz Paetz, who was damaged by an abuse scandal , Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki , formerly Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Gniezno, has headed the Poznań Archdiocese in 2002 .
Blessed and Saints of the Archdiocese of Poznan
- Blessed Bogumil (Polish bł. Bogumił Piotr ) (* 1135, † 1204), Bishop of Posen and Archbishop of Gniezno
- Saint Ursula Ledóchowska (Polish św. Urszula Julia Ledóchowska ) (* 1865, † 1939), Superior of the Ursuline Order
See also
- List of bishops and archbishops of Poznan
- List of auxiliary bishops in Poznan
- Poznan Annals , records of the history of the Diocese of Poznan from the 14th century
literature
- Rudolf Lill : Prussia and Catholicism . In: Church in Prussia: Gestalten und Geschichte , ed. by Manfred Richter, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-17-007735-X .
Web links
- Official website (Polish)
- Entry on the Archdiocese of Poznan on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry on the diocese of Poznan on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
