Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock

Roman Catholic diocese in Poland

Diocese of Płock Dioecesis Plocensis Diecezja Płocka

Cathedral of St. Mary of Masovia in Płock
Coat of arms
Location
Country	Poland
Ecclesiastical province	Warszawa
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Warszawa
Statistics
Area	11,000 km² (4,200 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2019) 807,089 800,120 (99,1%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	1075
Cathedral	Bazylika katedralna Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny Cathedral of St. Mary of Masovia in Płock
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Szymon Stułkowski
Metropolitan Archbishop	Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz
Auxiliary Bishops	Mirosław Milewski
Bishops emeritus	Piotr Libera
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Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Płock (Latin: Dioecesis Plocensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Płock in the ecclesiastical province of Warszawa in Poland.

Sunday mass attendance in 2013 was 30.7% of the population (39.1% Polish average) placing it to the group of less religious dioceses in the country.

History

1075: Established as Diocese of Płock^[1]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the Archbishop of Płock Antoni Julian Nowowiejski and the auxiliary Bishop Leon Wetmański [pl] were imprisoned in the village of Słupno, and then in 1941 murdered in the Soldau concentration camp, where also many other priests from Płock were killed.^[2] Nowowiejski and Wetmański are now considered two of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs of World War II by the Catholic Church. The Cathedral's ancient treasury, church archives and the diocesan library in Płock were robbed by the Germans, and taken to museums in Königsberg, Wrocław and Berlin.^[3]
2018: Płock Cathedral along with the entire Wzgórze Tumskie ("Tumskie Hill") listed by the President of Poland as a Historic Monument of Poland.^[4]

Special churches

Minor Basilicas:
- Bazylika pw. Zwiastowania NMP, Czerwińsk
  (Assumption)
- Bazylika pw. Zwiastowania NMP (Parafię św. Mateusza), Pułtusk
  (Annunciation)
  The Interior of the Bazylika Zwiastowania at Pułtusk

Leadership

Bishops of Płock (Roman rite)
- Archbishop Wojciech Baranowski (1591–1607)
- Archbishop Henryk Firlej (1617–1624)
- Bishop Jan Gembicki (1655.05.11 – 1674.03.13)
- Bishop Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski (1692.10.15 – 1699.05.25)
- Bishop Andrzej Stanisław Załuski (1723.11.22 – 1736.11.19)
- Bishop Antoni Sebastian Dembowski (1737–?)
- Bishop Józef Eustachy Szembek (1753–1758)
- Archbishop Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (1773–1784)
- Bishop Iraklij Listovskyj (1783 – 1809.08.30)
- Bishop Krzysztof Hilary Szembek (1784.10.02 – 1797.09.05)
- Bishop Ivan Krasovskyj (1809.09.22 – 1826)
- Bishop Tomasz Ostaszewski, S.J. (1815.09.04 – 1817.01.17)
- Bishop Adam Michał Prażmowski (1818–?)
- Archbishop Wincenty Teofil Popiel (1863.03.16 – 1875.07.05)
- Archbishop Franciszek Albin Symon (1897.07.21 – 1901.04.15)
- Archbishop Jerzy Józef Elizeusz Szembek (1901–1903)
- Archbishop Apollinary Wnukowski (1904.04.01 – 1908)
- Archbishop Antoni Julian Nowowiejski (1908.06.12 – 1941.05.28)
- Bishop Tadeusz Paweł Zakrzewski (1946.04.12 – 1961.11.26)
- Bishop Bogdan Sikorski (1964.01.21 – 1988.02.04)
- Archbishop Zygmunt Kamiński (1988.02.04 – 1999.05.01)
- Archbishop Stanisław Wielgus (1999.05.24 – 2006.12.06)
- Bishop Piotr Libera (2007.05.02 – 2022.06.04)
- Bishop Szymon Stułkowski (since 2022.10.31)

References

^ Jerzy Kloczowski (2000). A History of Polish Christianity. Cambridge University Press. p. 15. ISBN 9780521364294. Retrieved August 9, 2016.
^ Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warszawa, 2009, p. 233 (in Polish)
^ Wardzyńska, p. 224
^ Rozporządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 20 kwietnia 2018 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii "Płock - Wzgórze Tumskie", Dz. U. z 2018 r. poz. 1003