Archdiocese of Gniezno
| Archdiocese of Gniezno | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Poland |
| Diocesan bishop | Wojciech Polak |
| Auxiliary bishop | Krzysztof Jakub Wętkowski |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop |
Henryk Muszyński Józef Kowalczyk |
| Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | Bogdan Wojtuś |
| founding | 0999 |
| surface | 8,122 km² |
| Dean's offices | 30 (23/12/2008) |
| Parishes | 266 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 672,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 654,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 97.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 483 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 33 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,267 |
| Friars | 69 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 192 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Polish |
| cathedral | Arch-cathedral at Gniezno |
| Website | www.archidiecezja.pl |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Bishopric of Bromberg Bishopric of Włocławek |
Today's Archdiocese of Gniezno (Latin: Archidioecesis Gnesnensis , Polish: Archidiecezja Gnieźnieńska ) is the oldest Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Poland . The Archbishop of Gniezno is at the same time metropolitan of the eponymous ecclesiastical province , to which the dioceses of Bromberg and Włocławek belong as suffragan diocese .
history
The Archdiocese of Gniezno was founded by Emperor Otto III in 1000 at the instigation of the Polish Duke and later King Bolesław I. Chrobry . founded by the act of Gniezno as an independent Polish metropolitan bishopric directly subordinate to the Pope . Otto III. was on a pilgrimage to the grave of his friend, the martyr Adalbert of Prague , in Gniezno and acted in consultation with Pope Silvester II. First Archbishop (Metropolitan) became Adalbert's brother, Gaudentius . In the year 1000, the Archbishop of Gniezno was assigned as suffragans the bishops of the dioceses of Kolberg, established at the same time, in Pomerania, Cracow and Wroclaw . The Kolberg diocese, occupied by Bishop Reinbern , fell back a few years later. From around 1075 the bishop of Posen also belonged to the church province of Gniezno. With the circumscription bull of 1136 ( Ex commisso nobis ) Pope Innocent II confirmed the position of Archbishop of Gniezno and consolidated the membership of the suffragan dioceses.
The Metropolitan of Gniezno crowned the Polish kings and was primate of Poland and Lithuania from 1412 . In 1466 the bishopric of Kulm became a suffragan of Gniezno. From 1572 the archbishop as primate of Poland at was throne vacant at the same time Interrex the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom.
In 1821, with the bull De salute animarum, Pope Pius VII removed the diocese of Breslau from the church province of Gniezno and placed it directly under the Holy See . At the same Gniezno was in personal union with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Poznań and 1946 with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warsaw connected. With the restructuring of the Polish dioceses through the Apostolic Constitution Totus Tuus Poloniae Populus of March 25, 1992, Pope John Paul II separated the personal union for the leadership of the dioceses Gniezno and Warsaw.
Legatus natus
The archbishops of Gniezno, like the archbishops of Salzburg , Esztergom-Budapest , Cologne and Prague, hold the honorary title of " born legate " ( Latin legatus natus ). As an outward sign of this position, they are allowed to wear legate purple in their archdiocese - a solemn dress that is much older than the purple robe of the cardinals.
Ordinaries
Web links
- Official website (polish)
- History of the Archdiocese (Polish) ( Memento from February 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry for the Archdiocese of Gniezno on catholic-hierarchy.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II : Const. Apost. Totus Tuus Poloniae populus , AAS 84 (1992), n.3, pp. 1099-1112.
