Archdiocese of Gdańsk Archidioecesis Gedanensis Archidiecezja Gdańska | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 2,500 km2 (970 sq mi) |
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| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Cathedral | Archcathedral Basilica of The Holy Trinity, Blessed Virgin Mary and St Bernard in Gdańsk Oliwa |
| Co-cathedral | The Co-Cathedral of St Mary |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Archbishop | Tadeusz WojdaS.A.C. |
| Auxiliary Bishops | |
| Bishops emeritus | Sławoj Leszek Głódź |
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TheArchdiocese of Gdańsk (Latin:Gedanen(sis)) is aLatin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction orarchdiocese of theCatholic Church inPoland. The diocese'sepiscopal see isGdańsk.
According to the church statistics Sunday mass attendance was 38.1% in 2013 making it lower than the Polish average of weekly mass attendance (39.1%).
ItsArchcathedral Basilica of The Holy Trinity, Blessed Virgin Mary and St Bernard in Gdańsk is listed as aHistoric Monument of Poland.[1]
AfterWorld War I and restoration of independent Poland, the city of Gdańsk (Danzig) was not restored to Poland from Germany, but rather turned into afree city according to theTreaty of Versailles. The Catholic congregation west of theVistula belonged to theDiocese of Chełmno, which was restored toPoland and east of the Vistula to theDiocese of Warmia, which remained part ofWeimar Germany in theinterbellum. Germans within the administration of the Diocese of Chełmno were replaced byPolish priests and the Polish language was implemented as binding.[2] While about 130,000 people in Danzig were Catholic, only about 10 percent of them were Polish-speaking and the first attempts to reorganize the ecclesiastical allocation were made in spring 1919, when members of the German congregation asked for an affiliation to the Diocese of Warmia.[2]
While these attempts were supported by the German government, the Polish government tried to preserve the current situation. PopePius XI decided to establish anApostolic Administrator of the Free City of Danzig on 24 April 1922, which was directly subordinated to the Pope. In 1925 a concordat between Poland and the Holy See was signed and the Apostolic Administrator was now supposed to be subordinated to theNuncio of Warsaw, which caused protests among the local populace. Thus the Pope established the exempt Diocese of Danzig on 30 December 1925 and appointedEdward O'Rourke as the first Bishop on 2 January 1926.[2]
The Diocese was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gdańsk on 25 March 1992. On 17 November 1993, the Archbishop issued the instructions on the status ofKashubian as a language of liturgy.[3][4]
In 2019, three protestors toppled a statue of Rev. Henryk Jankowski following revelations that he sexually abused Barbara Borowiecka when she was a girl.[5][6] Jankowski, who also had a criminal investigation involving the sexual abuse of a boy dropped against him in 2004, had been defrocked in 2005.[6] However, he died in 2010 without ever being convicted of sex abuse.[6] It has also been acknowledged that Lech Walsea's personal chaplain Rev. Franciszek Cybula had been accused of committing acts of sex abuse while serving in the as well.[5] On 13 August 2020, Pope Francis removed Gdańsk ArchbishopSławoj Leszek Głódź, who was among those who covered up abuse committed by Jankowski and Cybula.[5] Glodz had also presided over Cybula's funeral. Despite the fact that Glodz had just turned 75, the required age for Catholic Bishops to offer their resignation, the move was described as "cleaning house," as it is highly unusual for the Pope to accept such a resignation on a prelate's actual birthday.[5]
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| Province of Białystok | |
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| Province of Częstochowa | |
| Province of Gdańsk | |
| Province of Gniezno | |
| Province of Katowice | |
| Province of Kraków | |
| Province of Łódź | |
| Province of Lublin | |
| Province of Poznań | |
| Province of Przemyśl | |
| Province of Szczecin-Kamień | |
| Province of Warmia | |
| Province of Warszawa | |
| Province of Wrocław | |
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| Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church | |
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