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Suffragan diocese Zamość, Poland

Diocese of Zamość-Lubaczów

Zamoscien(sis)-Lubaczovien(sis)

Latin Church

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.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of the Resurrection and St. Thomas the Apostle, Zamosc, in Zamość, Poland.

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Established
1992
Catholics
457,000
Priests
448
Territory
8,144 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Marian Rojek
Born
9 April 1955
Birthplace
Rzeszów

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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.

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.