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Metropolitan see Warmia, Poland

Archdiocese of Warmia

Varmien(sis)

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.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Frombork, in Warmia, Poland.

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Established
1243
Catholics
689,300
Priests
502
Territory
12,000 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Jozef Gorzynski
Born
5 March 1959
Birthplace
Żelechów

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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.

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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.

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