Archdiocese of Danzica – Wikipedia

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The cottage of the hiring of the Virgin Mary in Danzica, known as Mariacka .
Aerial view of the cathedral and the former Cistercian monastery of Oliwa, today archbishop’s seat.
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L’ Archdiocese of Danzica (in latino: Archdiocese Gedanensis ) is a metropolitan headquarters of the Catholic Church in Poland. In 2021 it had 926,220 baptized on 1,073,339 inhabitants. It is lined up by Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, S.A.C.

The Archdiocese includes the Eastern Baltic coast of the Voivodato di Danzica, approximately included in the districts of Danzica and Puck and in part of the neighboring districts.

Archbishop’s seat is the city of Danzica, where the Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Trinity are located, located in the Oliwa district, and the basilica of the hiring of the Virgin Mary, known as Mariacka , in the city center. In addition to the two cathedrals, three other minor basilicas arise in the diocese: the basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Poland in Gdynia [3] ; and the basilicas of Santa Brigida and San Nicola in Danzica.

The territory extends over 2,500 km² and is divided into 24 decanted and 201 parishes.

Ecclesiastical province [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

The ecclesiastical province of Danzica, established in 1992, includes two suffrageganes:

Danzica since the Middle Ages was part of the Archducetate of Pomerania of the diocese of Włocławek. In 1821, by virtue of the bubble On the safety of souls Of Pope Pius VII, with which the Pontiff reorganized the ecclesiastical circumscriptions of the Kingdom of Prussia, this territory became part of the diocese of Kulm (chełmno in Polish), today the diocese of Pelplin. After the First World War, the free city of Danzica was established, which from the ecclesiastical point of view included territories not only of the diocese of Kulm/Chełmno, but also of the Archdiocese of Varmia, in Eastern Prussia.

Only about 10% of the population was Polish, the rest was mostly German. The former hoped for the union of the whole territory of the free city of Danzica to the diocese of Chełmno, the latter his merger to the Varmia headquarters. The frictions between the two nationalities brought the Holy See on April 21, 1922 to erect an apostolic administration on the territory of the free city of Dant [4] , entrusted to Count Edward O’Rourke, Russian-Polac of Irish origins, former bishop of Riga.

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Three years later, on December 30, 1925, with the bubble All of the faithful of Pope Pius XI, the diocese of Danzica was erected on the same territory of the Apostolic Administration and Edward O’Rourke became the first bishop; The new diocese was immediately subject to the Holy See. All existing parishes were German -speaking, and only in 1937 O’Rourke established 2 Polish parishes. This fact aroused the ire of the German government, which put in place a campaign to discredit the bishop, and to prevent him from exercising his functions; O’Rourke was forced to resign in June 1938. Carlo Maria Splett of German origins succeeded him.

At the outbreak of the Second World War the 12 Poles of the diocesan clergy were arrested and 7 of them found death in German prisons. Most of the faithful Poles of the diocese were also arrested or deported.

Once the war is over, Danzica lost it status of free city and was integrated into the Polish state, and the Polish population became the majority in the diocese. Bishop Carlo Maria Splett was arrested by the Polish authorities on August 9, 1945 and sentenced to 8 years of prison for anti -Palacche activities. Released of prison he returned to Germany where he died in 1964, without however having ever resigned from his office as a bishop. The headquarters was entrusted to diocesan administrators: Andrzej Wronka (1945-1951), Jan Cymanowski (1951-1956) and Edmund Nowicki (1957-1964). Upon Splett’s death, Nowicki was appointed new bishop of Gdansk on March 7, 1964.

These diocesan administrators had to reorganize all the activities of the diocese, found new parishes, erect the episcopal seminary (founded in 1957). There were about twenty priests at the end of the war; In 1965 112 counted, in addition to 98 religious priests, who managed 63 parishes grouped in 7 decantes. [5]

On June 28, 1972 the diocese lost its ecclesiastical independence and became part of Gniezno’s ecclesiastical province. [6]

On March 25, 1992 as a result of the bubble All your Polish people of Pope John Paul II was elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese. At the same time the diocesan borders were revised, with the sale of a portion of its territory for the benefit of the erection of the diocese of Elbląg [7] , and with the acquisition of the entire northern part of the diocese of Chełmno (today the diocese of Pelplin) [8] .

The periods of vacancies not exceeding 2 years or not historically ascertained are omitted.

The archdiocese in 2021 on a population of 1,073,339 people counted 926,220 baptized, corresponding to 86.3% of the total.

year population Presbyteri deacons religious parishes
baptized total % number secular regular baptized for presbyter men women
1950 281,000 290,000 96.9 108 70 38 2.601 thirty first 149 58
1970 500,000 524,000 95.4 228 130 98 2.192 116 207 sixty one
1980 599,000 615,000 97.4 235 151 84 2.548 103 216 79
1990 614,000 629,000 97.6 323 232 91 1,900 113 252 100
1999 975.452 1.014.950 96.1 673 474 199 1.449 2 272 557 167
2000 917.105 976.778 93.9 679 483 196 1.350 first 235 534 170
2001 926.761 992.603 93.4 715 496 219 1.296 271 485 175
2002 944.158 993.275 95.1 727 515 212 1.298 262 534 181
2003 917,695 977.552 93.9 728 520 208 1.260 280 564 184
2004 923.195 977.614 94.4 734 527 207 1.257 255 524 186
2006 917.724 982.337 93.4 745 529 216 1.231 259 613 190
two thousand and thirteen 900.608 965.077 93.3 738 527 211 1.220 241 448 195
2016 980,000 1,000.122 98.0 744 552 192 1.317 236 452 198
2019 914.258 1,029.384 88.8 731 556 175 1.250 228 468 198
2021 926.220 1.073.339 86.3 713 549 164 1.299 215 411 201
  • Il seminario arcivescovile

    The archiepiscopal seminary

  • Una sala del museo dell'arcidiocesi, all'interno dell'ex monastero cistercense di Oliwa

    A room of the Archdiocese Museum, inside the former Cistercian monastery of Oliwa

  • La basilica minore di Santa Brigida a Danzica

    The minor Basilica of Santa Brigida in Danzica

  • La basilica minore di San Nicola a Danzica

    The minor basilica of San Nicola in Danzica

  • La basilica minore della Beata Vergine Maria, Regina della Polonia a Gdynia

    The minor basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary, queen of Poland in Gdynia

  1. ^ Vageata’s titular bishop.
  2. ^ Owner bishop of Musti di Numidia.
  3. ^ Decree of the Congregation for Divine Cult and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 21 November 2018; Prot. 193/18.
  4. ^ Decree Holiness of the extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs, AAS 14 (1922), p. 312.
  5. ^ Data published by Gajowski, Dictionary of ecclesiastical history and geography , vol. XX, col. 205.
  6. ^ Bubble Bishops Polish , AAS 64 (1972), p. 659.
  7. ^ La Diocesi di Elbląg Ha Acquisito and Decanati di Nadmorski, Nowy Dwór Gdański, Nowy Staw E Malbork-Kałdowo. Vedi: ( PL ) Apostolic nunciature V Poland, Decree on the ceasing and determining the boundaries of new dioceses and church provinces in Poland and the metropolitan belonging of individual dioceses , in Wroclaw Kościelne news , April-June 1992, XLV, 2, p. 150
  8. ^ Diocese Diocesi di Chełmno ha Acquisito and Decanati di Gdynia I, Gdynia II, Puck, Wejherowo I, Wejherowo II, Żarnowiec e Żuchowo. Vedi: ( PL ) Apostolic nunciature V Poland, Decree on the ceasing and determining the boundaries of new dioceses and church provinces in Poland and the metropolitan belonging of individual dioceses , in Wroclaw Kościelne news , April-June 1992, XLV, 2, p. 150
  9. ^ Appointed owner of Sofne.
  10. ^ From 13 August 2020 to 28 March 2021, the day of the taking of possession of Tadeusz Wojda, he was apostolic administrator Jacek Jezierski, bishop of Elbląg.

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