Projekty reorganizacji struktur Kościoła katolickiego w Polsce w zespole Sekretariatu Prymasa Polski Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego Warszawskiego

• Authors: Białkowski Michał

Title variants

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Projects of a reorganization of the structures of the Catholic Church in Poland in the documents of the Secretariat of the Primate of Poland in the materials of the Archive of the Warsaw Archdiocese

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

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Poland’s geopolitical situation after the end of the Second World War had an enormous impact on the situation of the Catholic Church there, especially its administrative structures. The new shape of state borders led to the loss of large parts of the Lvov and Vilnius metropolitan archdioceses, whose capitals now lay on Soviet Union territory. In turn, the adjoining of the Eastern German provinces – the Western and Northern lands – made it possible to undertake the effort of building new Church structures. Polish bishops under the leadership of Primate August Hlond followed by Primate Stefan Wyszyński began long lasting endeavors towards regulating the canonical status of the Church on the so called Recovered Territories. In the wake of the postcolonial renewal of the Church which was launched directly after the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council studies were undertaken in view of the prospective reorganization of Church structures in Poland. Two projects were created containing complex proposals encompassing the entire territory of the People’s Republic of Poland. The article discusses in detail two documents identified during a search query in the Archive of the Warsaw Archdiocese, in the group of the Secretariat of the Primate of Poland, which allow to formulate a high opinion of the involvement of the Church in Poland in the process of postconciliar reorganization of the ecclesial administrative structure.

Keywords

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the Catholic Church in Poland after the Second World War; the Second Vatican Council; Christus Dominus Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops; Archive of the Warsaw Archdiocese; Polish Church Province; administrative divisions of the Catholic Church in Poland; reorganization of Church structures; postconciliar reform projects of 1967 and 1970

• Publisher: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 3(364)
• Pages: 175-192

Contributors

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Białkowski Michał

• Wydział Politologii i Studiów Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu