Towns and Villages of the Pomeranian Archdeaconry, 1780–1781: Population and Religion
Towns and Villages of the Pomeranian Archdeaconry, 1780–1781: Population and Religion

Summary/Abstract: During the canonical visitation ordered by Bishop Józef Rybiński of Włocławek and carried out in 1780–1781, the canonical recorders, in addition to the traditional description of many issues concerning the parish, also included information about the population in their reports. For t his purpose, they used a tabular form in which the information was broken down by the individual villages belonging to the parish. This included not only the total number of inhabitants; the number of communicants, the number of non-Catholics and the number of Jews were also given. The statistical analysis of these data will make it possible to determine with some precision the population of the parishes of the archdeaconry that were located in small towns and in rural parishes, as well as the population as a whole. The study also includes findings on such topics as the average size of a rural settlement, the ratio of urban to rural population, the percentage of Catholics, non-Catholics, and Jews, and the percentage of Catholics eligible for the Sacrament of Penance and Holy Communion.

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