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Archiocese of Warsaw Archidioecesis Varsaviensis Archidiecezja Warszawska |
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St. John's Cathedral after the post-war reconstruction
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| Location | |
| Country | Poland |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 3,350 km2 (1,290 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2014) 1,540,000 1,425,000 (92.5%) |
| Parishes | 210 |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Latin Rite (or Roman Rite) |
| Established | 16 October 1798 (As Diocese of Warszawa)30 June 1818 (Archdiocese of Warsaw) |
| Cathedral | St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz |
| Auxiliary Bishops |
Piotr Jarecki Rafał Markowski Michał Janocha |
| Emeritus Bishops | Marian Duś, (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus) |
| Website | |
| Website of the Archdiocese | |
The Archdiocese of Warsaw is a Catholic ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Poland encompassing the Polish capital. It was erected on October 16, 1798. It was elevated to an Archdiocese on June 30, 1813.
A Metropolitan See, its suffragan dioceses are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga. According to the church statistics 30.4 % of the dioceses population attended a church weekly in 2013. This is higher than a year earlier (29.8%) however that doesn't mean that church attendance isn't declining at all there.
The current Archbishop, Kazimierz Nycz, formerly Bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland, was named on 3 March 2007. Following the abrupt resignation of Archbishop Stanisław Wielgus in January, Józef Cardinal Glemp had been named its Apostolic Administrator.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.