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Polish Orthodox Church
Quick Facts
- Tradition
- Christianity · Eastern Orthodoxy
- Current leader
- Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland Sawa Hrycuniak
- Leader since
- 1998
Intro
The Polish Orthodox Church, officially the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the Republic of Poland (Polish: Polski Autokefaliczny Kościół Prawosławny, lit. 'Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church'; PAKP), is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches in full communion with the rest of Eastern Orthodoxy.
Structure
The church is headed by the Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland: Sawa (Michał) Hrycuniak (1998–). It is divided into the following dioceses:
Archdioceses and archbishops
- Archdiocese of Warsaw and Bielsk: Sawa (Hrycuniak)
- Archdiocese of Białystok and Gdańsk: Jakub (Kostiuczuk) (2008–)
- Archdiocese of Łódź and Poznań: Atanazy (Nos) (2017–)
- Archdiocese of Wrocław and Szczecin: George (Pańkowski) (2017–)
- Archdiocese of Lublin and Chełm: Abel (Popławski) (2001–)
- Archdiocese of Przemyśl and Gorlice: Paisius (Martyniuk) (2016–)
- Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro and Olinda - Recife: Chrysostom (Freire) (1992–)
- Diocese of Recife: Ambrose (Cubas) (1996–)
Other entities
- Polish Orthodox Military Ordinariate
Original dioceses
Dioceses and bishops upon the issue of the tomos in 1924
- Diocese of Warsaw and Chełm (ruling): Dionizy (Waledyński)
- vicar of Lublin: Alexander (Inozemtsev)
- Diocese of Wołyń: Dionizy (Waledyński)
- Diocese of Grodno and Nowogródek: Aleksiy (Hromadsky)
- Diocese of Pinsk and Polesie
- Diocese of Wilna and Lida: Theodosius (Feodosiev)