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Diocese of Zamość-Lubaczów

Zamoscien(sis)-Lubaczovien(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in southeastern Poland, erected 25 March 1992 from an apostolic administration created in 1991, with territory from the Diocese of Lublin. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Przemysl. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Resurrection and St. Thomas the Apostle in Zamosc, with a co-cathedral in Lubaczow.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
25 March 1992
Latin
Zamoscien(sis)-Lubaczovien(sis)
Patron
Madre del Redentor
Annuario code
001000232

The see in figures

Catholics
457,000
Population
471,000
Catholic share
97.0%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
448
Catholics per priest
1,020
Extent
8,144 km²
Catholics per km²
56

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
Marian Rojek
Born
9 April 1955
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 of the Resurrection and St. Thomas the Apostle, Zamosc stands in Zamość, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral Shrine of St. Stanislaus, Lubaczow.

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

The province of Przemysl

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Przemysl.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

A suffragan Latin diocese within the ecclesiastical province of Przemyśl in Poland, Zamość-Lubaczów (Latin: Dioecesis Zamosciensis-Lubaczoviensis) has as its cathedral episcopal see the Katedra Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego i św. Tomasza Apostoła, a World Heritage Site dedicated to the Resurrection and St. Thomas the Apostle, in the city of Zamość, Lubelskie. The diocese also holds a co-cathedral, the Konkatedra św. Stanisława dedicated to Saint Stanislaus in Lubaczów, Podkarpackie, a Minor Basilica, the Bazylika św. Antoniego z Padwy in Radecznica, Lubelskie, and a second World Heritage Site, the Cerkiew św. Paraskewy in Radruż, Podkarpackie.

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.

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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].