Archdiocese of Lublin

The Archdiocese of Lublin () is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Lublin in Poland.

History

• 1375: Established as Diocese of Chełm
• 1790: Renamed as Diocese of Chełm and Lublin
• September 22, 1805: Renamed as Diocese of Lublin
• March 25, 1992: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lublin

Special churches

• Minor Basilicas
• Bazylika pw. Narodzenia NMP, Chełm
• Bazylika pw. św. Stanisława BM (OO. Dominikanie), Lublin
• Bazylika św. Wojciecha (Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Kębelskiej), Wąwolnica

Leadership

• Bishops of Chełm (Roman rite)
• Bishop Jakub Uchański (18 November 1551 – 1561), appointed Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze); future Archbishop
• Bishop Stanislaw Pstrokonski (1645–1657)
• Bishop Stanisław Dąmbski (1673–1676)
• Bishop Stanisław Jacek Święcicki (8 February 1677 – 1696)
• Bishop Mikołaj Michał Wyżycki (1699–1705)
• Bishop Kazimierz Łubieński (1705 – 10 May 1710)
• Bishop Teodor Wolff von Ludinghausen (10 November 1710 – 9 May 1712)
• Bishop Krzysztof Andrzej Jan Szembek (30 July 1711 – 15 March 1719)
• Bishop Alexander Antoni Pleszowice Fredro (1719–1724)
• Bishop Jan Feliks Szaniawski (29 January 1725 – 1733)
• Bishop Walenty Franciszek Wężyk (1753–1765)
• Bishop Feliks Paweł Turski (22 April 1765 – 4 March 1771)
• Bishop Jan Alojzy Aleksandrowicz (1780 – 12 September 1781)
• Bishops of Chełm and Lublin (Roman rite)
• Bishop Maciej Grzegorz Garnysz (1781 – 6 October 1790)
• Bishop Wojciech Skarszewski (1790 – 22 September 1805 see below)
• Bishops of Lublin (Roman rite)
• Bishop Wojciech Skarszewski (see above 22 September 1805 – 1824), appointed Archbishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}
• Bishop Walenty Baranowski (22 December 1871 – 1879)
• Bishop Kazimierz Józef Wnorowski (15 March 1883 – 1885)
• Bishop Francesco Jaczewski (30 December 1889 – 1918)
• Bishop Marian Leon Fulman (24 September 1918 – 18 December 1945)
• Bishop Stefan Wyszyński (4 March 1946 – 12 November 1948), appointed Archbishop of Gniezno and Warszawa {Warsaw} (Cardinal in 1953)
• Bishop Piotr Kałwa (30 May 1949 – 17 July 1974)
• Bishop Bolesław Pylak (27 June 1975 – 25 March 1992 see below)
• Archbishops of Lublin (Roman rite)
• Archbishop Bolesław Pylak (see above 25 March 1992 – 14 June 1997)
• Archbishop Józef Mirosław Å»yciński (14 June 1997 – 10 February 2011)
• Archbishop Stanisław Budzik (26 September 2011 – )

Suffragan dioceses

• Sandomierz
• Siedlce

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Poland
• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Sources

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Diocese website