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Suffragan diocese Sandomierz, Poland

Diocese of Sandomierz

Sandomirien(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in southeastern Poland, erected 30 June 1818 by Pope Pius VII (bull Ex imposita nobis); renamed Sandomierz-Radom in 1981 and reorganized in 1992 when Radom was split off. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lublin. Its mother church is the Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sandomierz, with a co-cathedral in Stalowa Wola.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sandomierz, in Sandomierz, Poland.

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Established
1818
Catholics
682,523
Priests
609
Territory
7,850 km²

Parishes and churches

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

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Krzysztof Nitkiewicz
Born
17 July 1960
Birthplace
Białystok

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The cathedral

Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sandomierz stands in Sandomierz, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral Basilica of Mary Queen of Poland, Stalowa Wola.

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

History

Sandomierz, a city in the ecclesiastical province of Lublin in Poland, gives its seat to this Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, known in Latin as Dioecesis Sandomiriensis.