Roman Catholic Diocese of Pelplin

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Diocese of Pelplin
Dioecesis Pelplinensis
Statistics
Country: Poland
Metropolitan: Gdańsk
Rite: Latin Rite
Area: 13,361 km²
Population:
  Total:
  Catholics:
850,000 (2004)
802,000 (94.4%)
Cathedral: Bazylika Katedralna Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny
(Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
Ordinaries
Bishop: Jan Bernard Szlaga
Auxiliary Bishop: Piotr Krupa

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pelphin {Latin: Pelplinen(sis)} is an diocese located in the city of Pelplin in the Ecclesiastical province of Gdańsk in Poland.

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[edit] History

[edit] Special Churches

Pelplin Cathedral
Pelplin Cathedral
  • Minor Basillicas:
    • Bazylika Ścięcia Świętego Jana Chrzciciela (Basillica of St. John Baptist Beheading), Chojnice

[edit] Leadership

  • Bishops of Pelphin (Roman rite)
    • Bishop Jan Bernard Szlaga (since 1992.03.25)
  • Bishops of Chelmno (Roman rite)
    • Archbishop Marian Przykucki (1981.06.15 – 1992.03.25)
    • Bishop Bernard Czapliński (1973.03.16 – 1980.12.30)
    • Bishop Kazimierz Jósef Kowalski (1946.03.04 – 1972.05.06)
    • Bishop Carlo Maria Splett (Apostolic Administrator 1940.12.05 – 1946.03.04)
    • Bishop Stanislao Okoniewski (1926.10.04 – 1944)
    • Bishop Augustinus Rosentreter (1898.12.22 – 1926.10.04)
    • Bishop Leo Redner (1886.11.16 – 1898.04.01)
    • Bishop Johannes Nepomuk von der Marwitz (1857.01.14 – 1886.03.29)
    • Bishop Anastasius Johannes Sedlag (1833.07.28 – 1856.09.23)
    • Bishop Ignatius Vincentius Matthy (1823.11.17 – 1832.05.20)
    • Bishop Franciszek Ksawery Graf Rydzyński (1795.10.10 – 1814.10.16)
    • Bishop Johann Karl Reichsgraf von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1785.01.31 – 1795.12.18)
    • Bishop Antoni Onufry Okecki (1771.03.04 – 1775.05.29)
    • Bishop Andrzej Ignacy Baier (1758.11.18 – 1785.01.31)
    • Bishop Wojciech Stanisław Leski, O. Cist. (1746.10.17 – 1758.09.19)
    • Bishop Andrzej Stanisław Załuski (1739.03.08 – 1746.05.02)
    • Bishop Adam Stanisław Grabowski (1736.09.26 – 1739.07.15)
    • Bishop Józef Eustachy Szembek (1736 – 1753)
    • Bishop Thomaz Franciszek Czapski, O. Cist. (1730.12.06 – 1733.04.23)
    • Bishop Feliks Ignacy Kretowski (1722.11.20 – 1730.12.06)
    • Bishop Jan Kazimierz de Alten Bokum (1718.06.27 – 1721.06.30)
    • Archbishop Teodor Andrzej Potocki (1699.04.11 – 1712.06.10)
    • Bishop Kazimierz Szczuka (1693.10.02 – 1694.06.30)
    • Bishop Jan Kazimierz Opaliński, O. Cist. (1681.06.23 – 1693.07.22)
    • Bishop Jan Małachowski (1676.06.22 – 1681.05.12)
    • Archbishop Andrzej Olszowski (1661.02.23 – 1674.10.01)
    • Bishop Adam Kos (1657.11.11 – 1661.02.11)
    • Bishop Jan Gembicki (1653.04.21 – 1655.05.11)
    • Archbishop Andrzej Leszczyński (1646.05.04 – 1653.01.08)
    • Archbishop Jan Lipski (1636 – 1639)
    • Archbishop Wawrzyniec Gembicki (1600 – 1610)
    • Cardinal Stanisław Hosius (1549.07.12 – 1551.05.11)

[edit] See also

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