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History. Ever since Poland officially adopted Christianity in 966, the Catholic Church has played an important religious, cultural and political role in the country post-schism.
There are 40.55 million registered Catholics in Poland. The primate of the Church is Wojciech Polak, Archbishop of Gniezno. In the early 2000s, 99% of all children born in Poland were baptized Catholic. In 2015, the church recorded that 97.7% of Poland's population was Catholic.
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Jan 13, 2023 · There Are Many Catholic Churches in Poland. Currently, there are nine state-registered catholic churches in Poland. The most numerous is the Roman Catholic Church (Latin Rite), which holds 95.5% of the country’s population. The others include: Greek Catholic Church (about 55,000 believers)
The first traces of Christianity are found in the area of Cracovia during the second half of the ninth century and are connected with the missionary activity of Methodius, the Apostle of the Slavs, in Moravia. The spread of Christianity in Poland, however, really began under the Piast Prince Mieszko I ( c. 960 – 992).
List of Catholic dioceses in Poland. The Roman Catholic Church in Poland comprises mainly sixteen Latin ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan, whose archdioceses have a total of 28 suffragan dioceses, each headed by a bishop.
St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe (born January 8, 1894, Zduńska Wola, near Lodz, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died August 14, 1941, Auschwitz [now Oświęcim]; feast day August 14) ; canonized October 10, 1982) was a Franciscan priest and religious founder martyred by the Nazis for aiding Jewish refugees during World War II.
