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Suffragan diocese Gliwice, Poland

Diocese of Gliwice

Glivicen(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in Upper Silesia, Poland, with its see in Gliwice, erected 25 March 1992 from the dioceses of Czestochowa, Katowice and Opole. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Katowice. Its mother church is the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Gliwice.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Gliwice, in Gliwice, Poland.

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Established
1992
Catholics
587,763
Priests
478
Territory
2,250 km²

Parishes and churches

161 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Slawomir Oder

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Gliwice stands in Gliwice, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

Seated in the city of Gliwice, this Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland (Latin: Glivicen(sis)) belongs as a suffragan to the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Katowice. Figures from 2021 indicate that roughly 89% of the population within its territory identifies as Catholic, though only 39% are practising Catholics.