Diocese of Sandomierz
Sandomirien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sandomierz, Poland
Latin-rite diocese in southeastern Poland, erected 30 June 1818 by Pope Pius VII (bull Ex imposita nobis); renamed Sandomierz-Radom in 1981 and reorganized in 1992 when Radom was split off. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lublin. Its mother church is the Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sandomierz, with a co-cathedral in Stalowa Wola.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 June 1818
- Latin
- Sandomirien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Stanislaus da Szczepanów, Blessed Wincenty Kadłubek
- Annuario code
- 001002888
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 682,523
- Population
- 683,123
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 99.9%
- Priests
- 609
- Catholics per priest
- 1,121
- Extent
- 7,850 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 87
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
- Krzysztof Nitkiewicz
- Born
- 17 July 1960
- Birthplace
- Białystok
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 Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sandomierz stands in Sandomierz, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral Basilica of Mary Queen of Poland, Stalowa Wola.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Lublin
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lublin.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LublinLublin
- Diocese of SiedlceSiedlce
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Sandomierz, a city in the ecclesiastical province of Lublin in Poland, gives its seat to this Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, known in Latin as Dioecesis Sandomiriensis.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.