Diocese of Sosnowiec
Sosnovien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sosnowiec, Poland
Latin Church diocese in southern Poland, erected in 1992 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Częstochowa. Bishop Artur Ważny was appointed in 2024 following the resignation of his predecessor.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 March 1992
- Latin
- Sosnovien(sis)
- Patron
- * san Alberto Chmielowski * san Rafael Kalinowski
- Annuario code
- 001003099
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 606,100
- Population
- 647,560
- Catholic share
- 93.6%
- Priests
- 395
- Catholics per priest
- 1,534
- Extent
- 2,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 303
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
- Artur Ważny
- Born
- 12 October 1966
- Birthplace
- Rzeszów
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, Sosnowiec stands in Sosnowiec, 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 Częstochowa
A suffragan of Częstochowa.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CzęstochowaCzęstochowa
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Sosnowiec, within the ecclesiastical province of Częstochowa in Poland, is the seat of this Latin Church diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Sosnoviensis). Weekly Sunday Mass attendance in 2013 stood at 27.5%, a slight rise from the 27.4% recorded the previous year.
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].