Roman Catholic Diocese of Zamość–Lubaczów
The Diocese of Zamość-Lubaczów is a suffragan Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of Przemyśl in Poland.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Katedra Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego i św. Tomasza Apostoła, a World Heritage Site dedicated to Resurrection and the St. Thomas the Apostle, in the city of Zamość, Lubelskie. It also has
- a Co-cathedral: Konkatedra św. Stanisława, dedicated to Saint Stanislaus, in Lubaczów, Podkarpackie
- a Minor Basilica: Bazylika św. Antoniego z Padwy, in Radecznica, Lubelskie
- a second World Heritage Site: Cerkiew św. Paraskewy, in Radruż, Podkarpackie.
History
- 1991: Established as Apostolic Administration of Lubaczów, on territory split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lviv
- Promoted on 25 March 1992 as Diocese of Zamość – Lubaczów, having gained territory from the Diocese of Lublin
- Enjoyed Papal visits from the Polish Pope John Paul II in June 1991 and June 1999.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 462,586 Catholics on 8,144 km² in 185 parishes and 4 missions with 478 priests, 173 lay religious and 45 seminarians.Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Zamość-Lubaczów- Jan Śrutwa ; previously Titular Bishop of Liberalia as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Lublin
- Wacław Depo, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Częstochowa
- Marian Rojek, previously Titular Bishop of Tisedi as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Przemyśl .