The Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień. Its cathedral is the Katedra Wniebowzięcia NMP in Gorzów Wielkopolski. It also has a co-cathedral dedicated to Hedwig of Silesia (called in Polish św. Jadwigi Śląskiej), in Zielona Góra, and a minor basilica, Bazylika Matki Bożej Rokitniańskiej, in Rokitno.

History

Statistics

, it pastorally served 989,400 Catholics (85.3% of 1,160,000 total) on 14,814 km2 in 267 parishes a 2 missions with 641 priests (542 diocesan, 99 religious), 283 lay religious (107 brothers, 176 sisters) and 53 seminarians. Like in most Polish dioceses, church attendance has declined in the 21st century. According to the statistics 28.1% of the dioceses population attended church services weekly in 2013, however more than 40% did so back in 2000.

Episcopal ordinaries

Auxiliary Bishops

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