PREMISLIA (Przemysl) of the LATINS, DIOCESE of - Diocese of the Latin rite in Poland. As early as the 13th century there is record of an episcopatus Russiae comprising the vast territory of Ruthenia, or Little Russia. The present Latin bishopric of P. was erected by Gregory XI on 13 February 1375 with the bull Debitum pastoralis officii. It is a suffragan of the Latin metropolis of Lviv (Lwów). Today the episcopal city is located in Poland, but with the new borders after the Second World War the diocese was cut off and a large part of the bishopric is located in Soviet Russia.

Statistics (1949): area 21,000 sq km, Latin Catholics 1,200,000, churches 800, parishes 447, diocesan priests 644, male religious houses 25, female 154. During the Second World War the diocese suffered greatly under the German and Soviet occupation. 42 priests perished, slaughtered or deported. Eminent bishops: Maciej (Janina), d. 1420; Mikołaj z Błażejowic, d. 1474; Walenty Herburt (1514-72), participant in the Council of Trent, «vir et pietate et doctrina praestans»; Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goślicki, author of the treatises De optimo senatore and De haereticis discursus, d. 1601; Pawel Janina Piasecki, author of Praxio episcopalis, published in Venice in 1611, d. 1649; Waclaw Hieronim Sierakowski (1699-1784), first bishop of Livonia of Kamieniec, future archbishop of Lviv, who in 1751 divided the diocese into 3 archdeaconries: Przemysl, Brzozów and Jarosław; Franciszek Wierzchlejski (1803-84).

The Chapter of the diocese of P. was founded in 1390, the seminary in 1677-89. Notable churches: the cathedral of Our Lady and St. John the Baptist of 1460-1744, in place of the ancient one of the 14th century; that of the Jesuit Fathers of 1627; at Sambor the church of the Bernardine Fathers of the 15th century; at Sanok the cloister and church of the Franciscan Fathers of 1377; at Lezajak the cloister and church of the Bernardine Fathers, where the miraculous image of the Madonna is found; at Krosno the parish church of 1342.

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BIBL.: F. Pawlowski, P. sacra, sive series et gesta episcoporum rit. Lat. Premisiensium, Cracovia 1869; X. M. Nowodworski, Encyklopedia Kościelna, XII, Varsovia 1878, pp. 88-184; T. Glemma, Przemysl, in LThK, VIII, coll. 538-39; P. M. Pirozyński, Statystyka Kościoła Katolickiego w Polsce, in Homo Dei, 1946, n. 2; 1948, nn. 1, 4, 5.

Adam Macieliński

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