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Suffragan diocese Opole, Poland

Diocese of Opole

Opolien(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in Silesia, Poland, established as an apostolic administration in 1945 and erected as a diocese on 28 June 1972 from territory of the Archdioceses of Wroclaw and Olomouc. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Katowice. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Opole.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Opole, in Opole, Poland.

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Established
1972
Catholics
783,056
Priests
782
Territory
8,033 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Andrzej Czaja
Born
12 December 1963
Birthplace
Olesno

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Opole stands in Opole, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Opole, a city in the ecclesiastical province of Katowice in Poland, gives its seat to this Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, known in Latin as Dioecesis Opoliensis.