Roman Catholic Diocese of Warsaw-Praga explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Local:Diecezja Warszawsko-Praska
Warszawa-Praga
Latin:Dioecesis Varsaviensis-Pragensis
Country:Poland
Metropolitan:Warszawa
Rite:Latin Rite
Cathedral:Cathedral Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel
Cocathedral:Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Victory
Area Km2:3,300
Population:1,418,940
Population As Of:2020
Catholics:1,117,000
Catholics Percent:78,7
Bishop:Romuald Kamiński
Metro Archbishop:Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz
Auxiliary Bishops:Jacek Grzybowski
Emeritus Bishops:Kazimierz Romaniuk
Denomination:Catholic Church

The Diocese of Warszawa-Praga (Latin: Dioecesis Varsaviensis-Pragensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the east part of Warsaw (Praga) in the ecclesiastical province of Warszawa in Poland.

According to the church statistics about 31.4% attended a church at least once a week and about 14.6% took communion regularly (once a week or more often) in 2013.

History

Notable churches

Cathedral Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian

Leadership

Sex abuse reports

On September 27, 2018, Bishop Romuald Kamiński apologized for the history of sex abuse of minors in the Diocese.[1] He also stated that work on a document addressing the Polish Catholic Church on the abuse of minors and suggesting ways to prevent it was completed.[2] Archbishop Wojciech Polak, who serves as the Primate of Poland, also stated this document would also contain data on the sexual abuse committed by Catholic clergy in Poland. Statistics were released on 14 April 2019, commissioned by the Episcopal Conference of Poland and with data from over 10,000 local parishes. It was found that from 1990 to mid-2018, abuse reports about 382 priests were made to the Church, with 625 children, mostly under 16, sexually abused by members of the Catholic clergy. There were opinions that the figures underestimated the extent of the problem, and failed to answer questions church officials had avoided for years.[3] Marek Lisinski, the co-founder of Don’t Be Afraid, which represents victims of clerical abuse, said "Tell us how [the priests] hurt those children and how many times they were transferred to different parishes before you paid notice". The data were released a few weeks after Pope Francis had called for "an all-out battle against the abuse of minors". After pressure from the Pope, in the preceding years Poland's church had publicly apologized to abuse victims, and accepted the need to report those accused of such crimes. In earlier times clergy to whom sexual abuse of minors was reported were not required by their superiors to notify the police, but to investigate themselves, and if necessary, inform the Vatican.[3]

See also

Sources

References

  1. News: Polish bishop apologizes to victims of clergy sex abuse - the Washington Post . . 2018-09-27 . 2018-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180927150524/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/polish-bishop-apologizes-to-victims-of-clergy-sex-abuse/2018/09/27/7928fc9a-c24c-11e8-9451-e878f96be19b_story.html . dead .
  2. Web site: Polish bishop apologizes to victims of clergy sex abuse Tulsa's 24-Hour News, Weather and Traffic . www.krmg.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180928003343/https://www.krmg.com/news/world/polish-bishop-apologizes-victims-clergy-sex-abuse/5xA9BnSwCSLGHCiNlFPg2I/ . 2018-09-28.
  3. Web site: Catholic Church in Poland Releases Study on Sexual Abuse by Priests . The New York Times . 14 March 2019 . Joanna Berendt . 15 May 2019.

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