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Diocese of Toruń

Thorunien(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in northern Poland, erected 25 March 1992 from the Diocese of Chelmno and the Archdiocese of Gniezno. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Gdansk. Its mother church is the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist in Torun, with a co-cathedral in Chelmza.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
25 March 1992
Latin
Thorunien(sis)
Patron
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Annuario code
001003261

The see in figures

Catholics
581,500
Population
625,190
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
93.0%
Priests
483
Catholics per priest
1,204
Extent
5,427 km²
Catholics per km²
107

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
Arkadiusz Okroj
Born
27 May 1967
Birthplace
Kartuzy

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 St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, Torun stands in Toruń, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, Chelmza.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Gdansk

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Gdansk.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Toruń, a city within the ecclesiastical province of Gdańsk in Poland, is the seat of this Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, known in Latin as Dioecesis Thoruniensis.

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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.