Archdiocese of Warmia
Varmien(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Warmia, Poland
Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese in northeastern Poland, erected as the Diocese of Warmia on 29 July 1243 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 25 March 1992, with the Dioceses of Elk and Elblag as suffragans. Its historic cathedral is the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Frombork, with the administrative see in Olsztyn and a co-cathedral there.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1243
- Latin
- Varmien(sis)
- Patron
- Andrzej Bobola
- Annuario code
- 001000138
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 689,300
- Population
- 705,480
- Catholic share
- 97.7%
- Priests
- 502
- Catholics per priest
- 1,373
- Extent
- 12,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 57
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
- Archbishop
- Jozef Gorzynski
- Born
- 5 March 1959
- Birthplace
- Żelechów
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
Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Frombork stands in Warmia, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle, Olsztyn.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Warmia
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of ElblągElbląg
- Diocese of EłkEłk
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of Poland, the Catholic Church maintains the Archdiocese of Warmia (Polish: Archidiecezja warmińska, German: Erzdiözese Ermland), a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese. The archbishop's cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Bazylika Archikatedralna Wniebowzięcia NMP i św. Andrzeja Apostoła in the town of Frombork, with a Co-Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Olsztyn.
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].