(Archi)diocese of Wrocław against the historic development

Abstract

The author shows the organisational changes over the centuries of the diocese located in the Silesia region, that later become the archdiocese. The Wrocław diocese, founded in 1000, belonged to the Gniezno metropolis from the very beginning. It suffered a great loss due to the Reformation in 16th century. In the 18th century it lost its connection with the Gniezno metropolis. It came back to Poland after the World War II. The last territorial changes was taken in order to the territorial reorganisation of the Polish Church made by the Pope John Paul II in 1992 and 2004.