The Archdiocese of

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officiall ...

is a

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ecclesiastical territory or

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encompassing the Polish capital. It was erected on October 16, 1798. It was elevated to an Archdiocese on June 30, 1813. A

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, its

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dioceses are the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock The Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock ( la, Plocen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Płock in the Ecclesiastical province of Warszawa in Poland. Sunday mass attendance in 2013 was 30.7% of the population (39.1% Polish average) placing it ...

and the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga The Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga ( la, Varsavien(sis) – Pragen(sis)) is a diocese located in the east part of Warsaw (Praga) in the Ecclesiastical province of Warszawa in Poland. According to the church statistics about 31,4% atten ...

. According to the church's statistics, 30.4% of the dioceses population attended a church weekly in 2013. That is higher than a year earlier (29.8%) but

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may still be declining.

Archbishop of Warsaw

The current archbishop,

Kazimierz Nycz Kazimierz Nycz (born 1 February 1950) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Archbishop of Warsaw since 2007. He was Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg from 2004 to 2007, after serving more than fifteen years as auxiliary bishop ...

, formerly Bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland, was named on 3 March 2007. Following the abrupt resignation of

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Stanisław Wielgus Stanisław Wojciech Wielgus (born 23 April 1939) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church, who resigned his position as Archbishop of Warsaw on 6 January 2007, just one day after being installed in that post in a private ceremony, just befor ...

in January,

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had been named its

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. See

List of bishops and archbishops of Warsaw The following is a list of the bishops and archbishops of Warsaw. On 30 June 1818, the see was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese. Also included are the auxiliary bishops. Bishops of Warsaw: * Józef Miaskowski, 1798–1804 *, Apostolic Adm ...

for all ordinarily of this diocese, as well as auxiliary bishops.

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Archbishop of Warsaw

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