Diocese of Opole
Opolien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Opole, Poland
Latin-rite diocese in Silesia, Poland, established as an apostolic administration in 1945 and erected as a diocese on 28 June 1972 from territory of the Archdioceses of Wroclaw and Olomouc. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Katowice. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Opole.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 June 1972
- Latin
- Opolien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Anne, Blessed Czesław Odrowąż, Blessed Bronisława
- Annuario code
- 001002459
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 783,056
- Population
- 850,693
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 92.0%
- Priests
- 782
- Catholics per priest
- 1,001
- Extent
- 8,033 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 97
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Andrzej Czaja
- Born
- 12 December 1963
- Birthplace
- Olesno
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Opole stands in Opole, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Katowice
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Katowice.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of GliwiceGliwice
- Archdiocese of KatowiceKatowice
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Opole, a city in the ecclesiastical province of Katowice in Poland, gives its seat to this Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, known in Latin as Dioecesis Opoliensis.
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The see's own website · Wikipedia
Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.