The Roman Catholic Church in Poland comprises mainly sixteen Latin ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan, whose archdioceses have a total of 28 suffragan dioceses, each headed by a bishop. They are all members of the Episcopal Conference of Poland, one of the larger conferences in Europe, slightly smaller than Spain, but larger than the United Kingdom or Germany and by far the most established conference in all of Eastern Europe.
Furthermore, there are
- an exempt military ordinariate for the armed forces
- the Eastern Catholic province of the Metropolitan Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warszawa and its suffragans as a Byzantine Rite in Ukrainian language
- an Ordinariate for the Faithful of the Eastern Rites for all other non-Latin rites in Poland.
There is also an Apostolic Nunciature to Poland, as papal diplomatic (embassy-level) representation.
Current Latin dioceses
Exempt Latin jurisdiction
- Military Ordinariate of Poland (Ordynariat Polowy Wojska Polskiego)
Ecclesiastical province of Białystok
Ecclesiastical province of Częstochowa
Ecclesiastical province of Gdańsk
Ecclesiastical province of Gniezno
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gniezno, the Polish primatial see
Ecclesiastical province of Katowice
Ecclesiastical province of Kraków
Ecclesiastical province of Łódź
Ecclesiastical province of Lublin
Ecclesiastical province of Poznań
Ecclesiastical province of Przemyśl
Ecclesiastical province of Szczecin-Kamień
Ecclesiastical province of Warmia
Ecclesiastical province of Warszawa
Ecclesiastical province of Wrocław
Current Eastern Catholic dioceses
Ukrainian Catholic province of Przemyśl–Warszawa
rite-specific particular church sui iuris : Byzantine Rite in Ukrainian language
- Metropolitan Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw
Exempt, joint for the other rites
- Ordinariate for the Faithful of the Eastern Rites for all other non-Latin rites in Poland.
Defunct dioceses
Four Episcopal Titular bishoprics: Diocese of Chełm, Diocese of Pomezania, Diocese of Sejny, Diocese of Wigry.
Gallery of archdioceses
Sources and external links
- GCatholic.org
- Catholic-Hierarchy entry.[self-published]
- http://www.episkopat.pl/