Archdiocese of Katowice
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Katowice is a Latin metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church, an ecclesiastical province in Western Poland.
Special churches
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Archikatedra Chrystusa Króla, dedicated to Christ the King, in the city of Katowice, Śląskie.It has several Minor basilicas :
- Bazylika św. Ludwika Króla i Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny, also in Katowice
- Bazylika Narodzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny, in Pszów
- Bazylika NMP i św. Bartłomieja Apostoła, in Piekary Śląskie
- Bazylika św. Antoniego Padewskiego, in Rybnik.
Province
Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Archdiocese and two suffragan bishoprics: the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gliwice and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Opole.History
On 7 November 1922, the Holy See disentangled the Roman Catholic parishes in the Polish Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship, territorially comprising the East of formerly Austrian Cieszyn Silesia and formerly German East Upper Silesia from the then Diocese of Breslau as a permanent Apostolic Administration of Upper Silesia on 17 December the same year.- On 28 October 1925, Pope Pius XI elevated that apostolic administration and renamed it after its see to Diocese of Katowice, then as suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kraków, by the papal Bull Vixdum Poloniae Unitas.
- In 1947, it lost territory to establish the Apostolic Administration of Český Těšín.
- It enjoyed Papal visits from the Polish Pope John Paul II in June 1983 and June 1999.
- It was promoted on March 25, 1992, as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Katowice.
Statistics
As of 2021, it pastorally served 1,390,000 Catholics on 2,400 km2 in 322 parishes and 6 missions with 1,066 priests, 5 deacons, 1,023 lay religious and 49 seminarians.Episcopal ordinaries
;Apostolic Administrator of Upper Silesia;Suffragan Bishops of Katowice
- August Hlond, also President of Episcopal Conference of Poland, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno–Poznan, created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace, Founder of the Society of Christ for Polish Immigrants, Metropolitan Archbishop of Warszawa
- Arkadiusz Lisiecki
- Stanisław Adamski
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Teofilo Bromboszcz, Titular Bishop of Candyba
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Juliusz Bieniek, Titular Bishop of Dascylium
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Józef Kurpas Titular Bishop of Orisa
- Herbert Bednorz, succeeding as former Coadjutor Bishop of Katowice & Titular Bishop of Bulla regia
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Czesław Domin, Titular Bishop of Dagnum, later Bishop of Koszalin–Kołobrzeg
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Janusz Edmund Zimniak, Titular Bishop of Polignano, next as Auxiliary Bishop of Bielsko–Żywiec
- Damian Zimoń
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Gerard Bernacki, Titular Bishop of Sala Consilina )
- Damian Zimoń
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Piotr Libera, Titular Bishop of Centuria, also Secretary General of Episcopal Conference of Poland ; later Bishop of Płock
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Stefan Cichy, Titular Bishop of Bonusta, later Bishop of Legnica
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Józef Piotr Kupny, Titular Bishop of Vanariona, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Wrocław
- Wiktor Skworc,
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Marek Szkudło, Titular Bishop of Wigry
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Adam Wodarczyk, Titular Bishop of Pomezania
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Grzegorz Olszowski, Titular Bishop of Rhoga
- Adrian Joseph Galbas