Jan () was the first bishop of

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

. He took power over the

diocese of Wrocław In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

at the time of its establishment in the year 1000.Jan Kopiec,The dioceses of the

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until the secularization pages 128–129. All numbering of the bishops dates from this time which is why he is not known as Jan I. He had a brick

cathedral A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominatio ...

built to replace an older wooden church, but this was destroyed in a pagan revolt in 1031, and the diocese ceased to function. The

diocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...

was re-established in 1050 with

Hieronim Hieronim is the Polish language, Polish form of Hieronymus and may refer to: *Adam Hieronim Sieniawski (1576–1616) (1576–1616), Polish–Lithuanian noble *Adam Hieronim Sieniawski (1623–1650) (1623–1650), Polish noble *Dominik Hieronim Radz ...

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