Roman Catholic Diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień in northwestern Poland. It has its cathedral episcopal see is the Katedra Niepokalanego Poczęcia NMP, in Koszalin, as well as a Co-Cathedral, which is the Minor Basilica: Bazylika Konkatedralna Wniebowzięcia NMP, in Kołobrzeg, both in Zachodniopomorskie, and a former Cathedral: Katedra Świętej Rodziny Katedra Świętej Rodziny, in Piła, in Wielkopolskie.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 822,058 Catholics on 14,640 km² in 220 parishes with 574 priests, 367 lay religious and 53 seminarians. According to the Polish Institute of the Catholic Church Statistics, weekly mass attendance was 25% in 2013 making the diocese the second least devoutly religious one in Poland after the Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień.

Precursor bishopric of Kołobrzeg

In 1000 the Diocese of Kołobrzeg was established in Kołobrzeg by Polish ruler Bolesław I the Brave, along with the dioceses of Wrocław and Kraków and the Archdiocese of Gniezno, as one of the oldest Polish dioceses.
In 1015 it was however suppressed, its territory being reassigned partly to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gniezno. Only one residential bishop of Kołobrzeg is recorded: Reinbern, died 1013.

History

;Suffragan Bishops of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg