Jurisdiction: | Archiocese |
Warsaw | |
Latin: | Archidioecesis Varsaviensis |
Local: | Archidiecezja Warszawska |
Country: | Poland |
Denomination: | Roman Catholic |
Established: | 16 October 1798 (As Diocese of Warszawa)30 June 1818 (Archdiocese of Warsaw) |
Rite: | Latin Rite (or Roman Rite) |
Area Km2: | 3,350 |
Population: | 1,558,000 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Catholics: | 1,467,000 |
Catholics Percent: | 94,2 |
Metro Archbishop: | Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz |
Bishop Title: | Archbishop |
Cathedral: | St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw |
Parishes: | 210 |
Auxiliary Bishops: | Piotr Jarecki Rafał Markowski Michał Janocha |
Archdeacon: | for one--> |
Website: | Website of the Archdiocese |
The Archdiocese of Warsaw (Latin: Archidioecesis Varsaviensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland encompassing the Polish capital. It was erected on October 16, 1798. It was elevated to an Archdiocese on June 30, 1813.
A Metropolitan See, its suffragan dioceses are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga.According to the church's statistics, 30.4% of the dioceses population attended a church weekly in 2013. That is higher than a year earlier (29.8%) but church attendance may still be declining.
The current archbishop, Kazimierz Nycz, formerly Bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland, was named on 3 March 2007. Following the abrupt resignation of Archbishop Stanisław Wielgus in January, Józef Cardinal Glemp had been named its Apostolic Administrator.
See List of bishops and archbishops of Warsaw for all ordinarily of this diocese, as well as auxiliary bishops.