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Suffragan diocese Kalisz, Poland

Diocese of Kalisz

Calissien(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in central Poland erected 25 March 1992 from territory of Czestochowa and neighboring sees; the name recalls the 1818-1925 Diocese of Cuiavia-Kalisz. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Poznan. Its mother church is the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Kalisz, with a co-cathedral in Ostrow Wielkopolski.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Kalisz, in Kalisz, Poland.

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Established
1992
Catholics
727,672
Priests
537
Territory
10,800 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Damian Bryl
Born
10 February 1969
Birthplace
Jarocin

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Kalisz stands in Kalisz, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of St. Stanislaus, Ostrow Wielkopolski.

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

History

Kalisz, a city within the ecclesiastical province of Poznań in Poland, gives its name and seat to this Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, known in Latin as Dioecesis Calissiensis.