Wigry, Suwałki County


Wigry is a small village in the administrative district of Gmina Suwałki, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, a short-lived former Roman Catholic bishopric and presently a Latin Catholic titular see.

Village

It lies approximately east of Suwałki and north of the regional capital Białystok.
The village has a population of 30.

Ecclesiastical history

The Diocese of Wigry was established on 25 March 1798, under Napoleontic rule, on Polish territories split off from the then dioceses of Žemaitija and Vilnius and former Luck.
It was suppressed on 30 June 1818, after only two incumbents, its territory being reassigned to establish the Diocese of Sejny, to which its last incumbent was appointed.

Episcopal Ordinaries

;Suffragan Bishops of Wigry
It was nominally restored in October 2014 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.
So far it has had a single incumbent, of the lowest rank :