Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów
| Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów | |
| Basic data | |
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| Country | Poland |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Stettin-Cammin |
| Diocesan bishop | Tadeusz Lityński |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop |
Adam Dyczkowski Stefan Regmunt |
| Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | Paweł Socha CM |
| founding | 1972 |
| surface | 14,814 km² |
| Dean's offices | 30 (2018) |
| Parishes | 267 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Residents | 1,160,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics | 989,400 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| proportion of | 85.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 542 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 99 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,544 |
| Friars | 107 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 176 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Polish |
| cathedral | St. Mary's Cathedral |
| Co-cathedral | St. Hedwig |
| address | Kuria Diecezjalna pl. Powstancow Wielkopolskich 1 65-075 Zielona Góra |
| Website | www.diecezjazg.pl |
The diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów ( Latin: Dioecesis Viridimontanensis-Gorzoviensis , Polish: Diecezjazielonogórsko-gorzowska ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in western Poland , which includes the area of the Lubusz Voivodeship and parts of neighboring voivodeships (essentially the Second World War, part of Brandenburg that fell to Poland ). The episcopal seat is Zielona Góra ( German : Grünberg i.Schlesien ), the episcopal church is St. Marien in Gorzów Wielkopolski ( German : Landsberg adWarthe ).
Geographical location
The diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów borders in the west on the diocese of Görlitz and the archbishopric of Berlin , in the north on the archbishopric Stettin-Cammin and the diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg (Köslin-Kolberg) , in the east on the archbishopric of Posen and in the south on the Archdiocese of Breslau and the Diocese of Legnica (Liegnitz) . With the Diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg it is subordinate to the Metropolitan Diocese of Stettin-Cammin.
history
The diocese is a still young diocese, the Diocese of Gorzów ( German Landsberg adWarthe) on June 28, 1972 by Pope Paul VI. was established with the Apostolic Constitution Episcoporum Poloniae coetus from diocesan areas that until then belonged de jure to the Diocese of Berlin and the Prelature Schneidemühl , but had been de facto administrators since September 1945. Its founding ties in with the tradition of the earlier diocese of Lebus , which existed up to the time of the Reformation . On March 25, 1992 the diocese was renamed by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Totus Tuus Poloniae populus in the diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów ( German Grünberg-Landsberg) and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Stettin-Cammin as a suffragan diocese.
Bishops
Landsberg an der Warthe district
- 1945–1951 Edmund Nowicki , administrator
- 1951–1956 T. Zaluczowski , vicar capitular
- 1956–1958 Teodor Bensch , titular bishop
- 1958–1972 Wilhelm Pluta , titular bishop, administrator since 1967
Bishops since 1972
Dean's offices
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Bishopric patron
- Matka Boża Rokitniańska - Our Lady Rokitniańska, August 15th
- Benedikt, Johannes, Matthäus, Isaak and Krystyn Międzyrzecz ( Five Holy Brothers Meseritz), 12./13. November
literature
- Hellmuth Heyden : Church history of Pomerania. 2 volumes. 2nd revised edition. Müller, Cologne-Braunsfeld, 1957 ( Eastern Europe and the German East. Series 3, Vol. 5).
Web links
- Official website (Polish)
- Entry on the diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paulus Episcopus servus servorum Dei ad perpetuam rei memoriam : Constitutio Apostolica Vratislaviensis - Berolinensis et aliarium , Acta Apostolicae Sedis 64 (1972), n. 10, pp. 657f.
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Totus Tuus Poloniae populus , AAS 84 (1992), n.3, pp. 1099-1112.
