Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Poznań

The Archdiocese of Poznan ( Latin: Archidioecesis Posnaniensis, poln: Archidiecezja Poznańska ) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, based in Poznan.

History

The Diocese of Poznan is the oldest Roman Catholic Diocese of Poland, their origins in the 10th century, the time of the Polish state was founded under the first Piast back. Duke Mieszko I of Poland assumed his kingdom to the spiritual primacy of the Holy See, after which Pope John XIII. the missionary bishop Jordanes sent to Posen, Duke Mieszko baptized 966. 968 he took the recently completed Poznań bishop's church, the predecessor of the Poznań Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, in possession and became the first successor of the apostles on Polish soil in history. As the founder of a new national church he had, just as the Popes, right to the patronal feast of the Apostle Peter for his cathedral. Initially, until the foundation of the Archdiocese of Gniezno and its suffragan dioceses Krakow, Wroclaw and Kolobrzeg in the year 1000, the jurisdiction area of ​​Poznań bishops encompassed the entire territory of the Piast dynasty.

Around 1075, the diocese also poses was connected as suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Gniezno. In the former division of the country into dioceses, a large part of Mazovia and Warsaw remained with the diocese of Posen, which only changed in 1798 with the founding of the Diocese of Warsaw.

By 1518, founded by Bishop Jan Lubrański Lubrański Academy poses rose to become the second most important educational center of Krakow Poland at that time. 1821 the diocese Posen was raised to the rank of an archbishopric and Metropolitan seat, and in personal union with the Archdiocese of Gniezno. The archdioceses of Poznan and Gniezno established in the 19th century, during the period of the partitions of Poland and of light emanating from the Prussian government so-called Kulturkampf against Catholicism and Poles a bulwark of organized resistance dar. Numerous priests, including Archbishop Mieczysław Cardinal Halka - Ledóchowski, had consequently suffer reprisals.

1946, the personal union between Gniezno and Poznań was lifted, when Pope Pius XII. the Primate of Poland, Archbishop August Cardinal Hlond of Gniezno and Poznań, appointed Metropolitan of Gniezno and Warsaw. In 1983, Pope John Paul II poses the archdiocese and spoke here in the first beatification on Polish soil Ursula Ledóchowska saved. In 1997, he again stayed in Poznan. 2003 Ursula Ledóchowska was canonized in Rome and is now one of the patrons of the Archdiocese of Poznan.

Since the resignation of the damaged by an Archbishop Juliusz Paetz abuse scandal in 2002, directs Archbishop Stanisław Gadecki, former auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Gniezno, the Archdiocese of Poznan.

Blessed and Saints of the Archdiocese of Poznan

  • Seliger Bogumil (Polish BL. Bogumil Piotr ) (* 1135, † 1204), Bishop of Poznań and Gniezno Archbishop of
  • Saint Ursula Ledóchowska (Polish Sw. Urszula Julia Ledóchowska ) (* 1865, † 1939), Superior of the Ursuline Order
Vicar general Friar Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, Poznań Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalisz Jordan (Bishop of Poland) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gniezno Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warsaw Personalunion August Hlond Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lublin Roman Catholic Diocese of Bydgoszcz Roman Catholic Diocese of Drohiczyn Roman Catholic Diocese of Kielce Roman Catholic Diocese of Legnica Roman Catholic Diocese of Opole Roman Catholic Diocese of Radom Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandomierz Roman Catholic Diocese of Siedlce Roman Catholic Diocese of Sosnowiec Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga
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