Roman Catholic Diocese of Włocławek
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Włocławek, until the 20th century known as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kujawy, is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gniezno in western Poland.
The bishops' seat is Włocławek Cathedral, also a minor basilica: Bazylika Katedralna Wniebowzięcia NMP in the city of Włocławek, in Kujawsko-Pomorskie.
The diocese has two more Minor Basilicas:
- Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, in Licheń Stary, Wielkopolskie
- Bazylika Wniebowzięcia NMP, in Zduńska Wola, Łódzkie.
History
- ''We disregard the presumably merely-legendary precursor Diocese of Kruszwica
- Established in 1015 as Diocese of Kujawy–Pomorze / Kruszwicka / Cuiavia–Pomerania, on territory split off from the suppressed Diocese of Kolberg
- Renamed in 1148 as Diocese of Kujawy–Pomorze / Cuiavia–Pomerania / since ca. 1124/26 called Włocławek after its see
- Theological seminary in Włocławek founded in 1569 by Bishop Stanisław Karnkowski as one of the oldest seminaries in Poland.
- Gained territory in 1633 from the Diocese of Płock
- Renamed on 30 June 1818 as Diocese of Kujawy–Kaliska / Cuiavia–Kalisz, having lost territories to its Metropolitan the Archdiocese of Gniezno, to Diocese of Poznań, to Diocese of Wrocław and to Diocese of Płock.
- Renamed on 28 Oct 1925 after its see as Diocese of Włocławek / Wladislavia / Vladislavien
- During the German occupation of Poland, the Germans murdered 249 priests from the Diocese of Włocławek, including the Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek Michał Kozal, closed down the cathedral, and robbed the precious historical collections of the diocese of Włocławek.
- Lost territory on 25 March 1992 to establish the Diocese of Kalisz.
- It enjoyed Papal visits from the Polish Pope John Paul II in June 1991 and June 1999.
- In 2018 the Włocławek Cathedral was listed by the President of Poland as a Historic Monument of Poland.
Statistics
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Kujawy–Pomorze- Swidger
- Onold
- Rudger
- Werner
- Wunelf
- Stefan
- Ogerius
- Bartha
- Michael = Michał
- Wolimir = Wolimir
- Albierz/Wojciech
- 1284–1300 – Wisław
- 1300–1323 – Gerward
- 1324–1364 – Maciej z Gołańczy
- 1364–1383 – Zbylut z Wąsosza
- 1383–1383 – Trojan
- 1384–1389 – Jan Kropidło
- 1389–1398 – Henry VIII of Legnica
- 1399–1402 – Mikołaj Kurowski
- 1402–1421 – Jan Kropidło
- 1421–1427 – Jan Pella
- 1427–1433 – Jan Szafraniec
- 1433–1449 – Władysław Oporowski
- 1449–1450 – Mikołaj Lasocki
- 1450–1463 – Jan Gruszczyński
- 1463–1464 – Jan Lutek
- 1464–1472 – Jakub z Sienna
- 1473–1480 – Zbigniew Oleśnicki
- 1481–1483 – Andrzej Oporowski
- 1484–1493 – Piotr Moszyński
- 1494–1503 – Krzesław Kurozwęcki
- 1503–1513 – Wincenty Przerębski
- 1513–1531 – Maciej Drzewicki
- 1531–1538 – Jan Karnkowski
- 1538–1542 – Łukasz II Górka
- 1542–1546 – Mikołaj Dzierzgowski
- 1546–1551 – Andrzej Zebrzydowski
- 1551–1557 – Jan Drohojowskii
- 1557–1565 – Jakub Uchański
- 1565–1567 – Mikołaj Wolski
- 1567–1580 – Stanisław Karnkowski
- 1581–1600 – Hieronim Rozrażewski
- 1600–1603 – Jan Tarnowski
- 1603–1607 – Piotr Tylicki
- 1608–1608 – Wojciech Baranowski
- 1608–1610 – Maciej Pstrokoński
- 1610–1616 – Wawrzyniec Gembicki
- 1616–1622 – Paweł Wołucki
- 1622–1631 – Andrzej Lipski
- 1631–1642 – Maciej Łubieński
- 1642–1654 – Mikołaj Wojciech Gniewosz
- 1654–1673 – Kazimierz Florian Czartoryski
- 1674–1675 – Jan Gembicki
- 1675–1680 – Stanisław Sarnowski
- 1680–1691 – Bonawentura Madaliński
- 1691–1700 – Stanisław Dąmbski
- 1700–1705 – Stanisław Szembek
- 1705–1720 – Felicjan Konstanty Szaniawski
- 1720–1735 – Krzysztof Antoni Szembek
- 1735–1741 – Adam Stanisław Grabowski
- 1741–1751 – Walenty Aleksander Czapski
- 1751–1763 – Antoni Sebastian Dembowski
- 1763–1776 – Antoni Kazimierz Ostrowski
- 1777–1806 – Józef Ignacy Rybiński
- 1806–1815 – vacant
- 1815–1818 – Franciszek Malczewski
- 1818–1822 – Andrzej Wołłowicz
- 1822–1831 – Józef Szczepan Koźmian
- 1831–1836 – vacant
- 1836–1850 – Walenty Maciej Bończa
- 1850–1856 – vacant
- 1856–1867 – Jan Michał Marszewski
- 1867–1876 – vacancy
- 1876–1883 – Wincenty Teofil Popiel
- 1883–1902 – Aleksander Kazimierz Bereśniewicz
- Stanisław Kazimierz Zdzitowiecki
- Stanisław Kazimierz Zdzitowiecki
- 1927–1928 – Władysław Paweł Krynicki
- 1928–1951 – Karol Mieczysław Radoński
- 1951–1968 – Antoni Pawłowski
- 1969–1986 – Jan Zaręba
- 1987–1992 – Henryk Muszyński
- 1992–2003 – Bronisław Dembowski
- Wiesław Mering
Auxiliary bishops
- * 1514–? – Aleksander Myszczynski
- * 1581–1585 – Maciej Wielicki
- * 1597–1617 – Franciszek Lanczki
- * 1617–1632 – Balthasar Miaskowski
- * 1634–1638 – Krzysztof Charbicki
- * 1639–1643 – Wenceslaus Paprocki
- * 1643–1652 – Piotr Mieszkowski
- * 1652–? – Valerius Wilezogerzosi
- * 1653–1677 – Stanisław Domaniewski
- * 1678–1696 – Piotr Mieszkowski
- * 1695–? – Andreas Albinowski
- * 1709–1723 – Wojciech Ignacy Bardziński
- * 1725–1736 – Franciszek Antoni Kobielski
- * 1737–1739 – Aleksander Działyński
- * 1740–1759 – Franciszek Kanigowski
- * 1759–1788 – Jan Dembowski
- * 1766–1775 – Cyprian Kazimierz von Wolicki
- * 1775–1781 – Maciej Grzegorz Garnysz
- 1781–1799 – Ludwik Stanisław Górski
- * 1789–1793 – Marcin Chyczewski
- 1794–1819 – Feliks Łukasz Lewiński
- * 1819–1825 – Józef Marcelin Dzięcielski
- * 1838–1844 – Józef Joachim Goldtmann
- * 1844–1861 – Taddeo Łubieński
- 1884–1898 – Carlo Pollner
- * 1884–1889 – Henryk Piotr Kossowski
- * 1918–1938 – Wojciech Stanisław Owczarek
- * 1918–1927 – Władysław Paweł Krynicki, Appointed Bishop of Włocławek
- * 1939–1943 – Bl. Michaël Kozal
- 1962–1979 – Kazimierz Jan Majdański
- * 1946–1972 – Franciszek Salezy Korszyński
- 1963–1969 – Jan Zareba, Appointed Bishop of Włocławek
- * 1973–1997 – Czeslaw Lewandowski
- * 1981–2003 – Roman Andrzejewski
- * 1999–2020 – Stanisław Gębicki