Diocese of Toruń
Thorunien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Toruń, Poland
Latin-rite diocese in northern Poland, erected 25 March 1992 from the Diocese of Chelmno and the Archdiocese of Gniezno. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Gdansk. Its mother church is the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist in Torun, with a co-cathedral in Chelmza.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 March 1992
- Latin
- Thorunien(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help
- Annuario code
- 001003261
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 581,500
- Population
- 625,190
- Catholic share
- 93.0%
- Priests
- 483
- Catholics per priest
- 1,204
- Extent
- 5,427 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 107
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
- Arkadiusz Okroj
- Born
- 27 May 1967
- Birthplace
- Kartuzy
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 St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, Torun stands in Toruń, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, Chelmza.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Gdansk
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Gdansk.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of PelplinPelplin
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Toruń, a city within the ecclesiastical province of Gdańsk in Poland, is the seat of this Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, known in Latin as Dioecesis Thoruniensis.
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].