LODZ (Lódź), DIOCESE OF. — In Poland, founded in 1920. A suffragan of Warsaw; the first bishop was Wincenty Tymieniechi.
merit for the founding of the *Thomassbibliothek* in Düsseldorf (1891, transferred to Walberberg in 1934).
He founded the series *Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens in Deutschland*. Among his writings are: *De vita et scriptis Alberti Magni* (in *Anal. Boll.*, 19 [1900], pp. 257-84; 20 [1901], pp. 273-316; 21 [1902], pp. 316-317), *Statistisches über die Ordensprovinz Teutonia* (Quellen u. Forschungen, 1 [Leipzig 1907]), *Statistisches über die Ordensprovinz Saxonia* (ibid., 4 [ibid. 1910]), ed. I. Meyer, *Liber de viris illustribus O.P.* (ibid., 12 [ibid. 1918]).