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Diocese of Radom

Radomen(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in central Poland, erected 25 March 1992 from the former Diocese of Sandomierz-Radom. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Radom.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
25 March 1992
Latin
Radomen(sis)
Patron
san Casimiro
Annuario code
001002710

The see in figures

Catholics
836,036
Population
855,286
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
97.7%
Priests
730
Catholics per priest
1,145
Extent
8,000 km²
Catholics per km²
105

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
Marek Solarczyk
Born
13 April 1967
Birthplace
Wołomin

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 Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Radom stands in Radom, 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 Czestochowa

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Czestochowa.

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Radom, a city within the ecclesiastical province of Częstochowa in Poland, is the seat of this Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, known in Latin as Dioecesis Radomensis.

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Sources

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.