Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice


The Archdiocese of Katowice is the Latin Metropolitan archdiocese of an ecclesiastical province in Western Poland.

Special churches

Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Archikatedra Chrystusa Króla, dedicated to Christ the King, in the city of Katowice, Śląskie.
It has several Minor basilicas :
Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and these Suffragan bishoprics :
On 7 November 1922, the Holy See disentangled the Roman Catholic parishes in the Polish Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship, territorially comprising the East of formerly Austrian Cieszyn Silesia and formerly German East Upper Silesia from the then Diocese of Breslau as a permanent Apostolic Administration of Upper Silesia on 17 December the same year.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,448,500 Catholics on 2,400 km² in 319 parishes and 6 missions with 1,088 priests, 1 deacon, 1,005 lay religious and 117 seminarians.

Episcopal ordinaries


;Apostolic Administrator of Upper Silesia
;Suffragan Bishops of Katowice
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Katowice''