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Powstanie Metropolii Wrocławskiej w 1930 roku
The Foundation of the Metropolitan See of Wrocław in 1930

Author(s): Michał Piela
Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Pastoral Theology
Published by: Papieski Wydział Teologiczny
Keywords: De salute animarum buli; State concordat; Bavarian concordat; Prussian concordat; Metropolitan See of Wrocław; nuncio E. Pacelli; Cardinal A. Bertram;

Summary/Abstract: In the new, post-war circumstances, the Holy See preferred to sign a concordat with the new German State. However, as this turned out impossible,E. Pacelli, the nuncio, arrived at signing a concordat with Bavaria in 1.924, and from 1915 led intensive negotiations towards signing one with Prussia. Withthe important support of the Prussian episcopate and their president, Cardinal A. Bertram, the negotiations resulted in a successful signing of the concordat on August 14, 1.92.9, By the force of the executive buli Pastoralis Officii Nostri Of August 13, 1930, Wrocław became the seat of the new eastern Metropolitan See in Germany. The following were incorporated into it as the suffragan dioceses:the diocese of Warmia, which sińce 1821 had been directly dependent on the Holy See, the newly erected Diocese of Berlin, and the Prelature of Piła (Praelatura nullius).

  • Issue Year: 23/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 269-287
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish