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Diocese of Siedlce

Siedlecen(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in eastern Poland, erected 30 June 1818 as the Diocese of Podlachia and renamed Diocese of Siedlce on 28 October 1925. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lublin. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Siedlce.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1818
Latin
Siedlecen(sis)
Patron
* Simón * Judas Tadeo * Josafat Kuncewicz * Mártires de Pratulin
Annuario code
001003055

The see in figures

Catholics
695,940
Population
705,250
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
98.7%
Priests
672
Catholics per priest
1,036
Extent
11,440 km²
Catholics per km²
61

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
Kazimierz Gurda
Born
20 August 1953
Birthplace
Książnice Wielke

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 Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Siedlce stands in Siedlce, 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 Lublin

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lublin.

The sees of this province:

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

History

With its episcopal see at Siedlce, this Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland (Latin: Siedlecen(sis)) serves as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Lublin.

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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.