Plock (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Joseph Lins · 1913
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Description
Plock is a Polish diocese in Russian Poland, suffragan, or subordinate, to Warsaw, covering Plock district and parts of Łomża and Warsaw. It was founded about 1087 through legates of Gregory VII and first certainly noticed in 1102. It once stretched between the Vistula, Narew, and Bug across most of Masovia and northern Podlachia.
Its bishops, under Gniezno until 1818 and Warsaw thereafter, held vast estates, 240 villages by a charter of 1239. Those lands were later split with the cathedral chapter and then seized piecemeal by the Russian government. The see stood vacant from 1853 to 1863 and again from 1885 to 1890. It suffered under Russian rule and faced the spread of the Mariavite sect. Recent bishops Szembek and Wnukowski rose to Mohileff.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Joseph Lins |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |