Diocese of Łowicz
Lovicen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Łowicz, Poland
Latin-rite diocese in central Poland, erected 25 March 1992 from the Diocese of Lodz, the Diocese of Plock and the Archdiocese of Warsaw. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lodz. Its mother church is the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas in Lowicz.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 March 1992
- Latin
- Lovicen(sis)
- Patron
- * santa Victoria * beato Honorato Koźmiński
- Annuario code
- 001002051
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 583,496
- Population
- 602,730
- Catholic share
- 96.8%
- Priests
- 344
- Catholics per priest
- 1,696
- Extent
- 5,806 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 100
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Wojciech Osial
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas, Lowicz stands in Łowicz, 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.
The province of Lodz
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lodz.
The sees of this province:
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Łowicz, within the ecclesiastical province of Łódż in Poland, this Latin diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Lovicensis) has as its cathedral the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas. That church stands among Poland's official national Historic Monuments (Pomnik historii), a designation granted on November 13, 2012, on a listing maintained by the National Heritage Board of Poland.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].