Erected a diocese on 22 September 1805 by Pope Pius VII by the bull Quemadmodum Romanorum Pontificum. Created an archdiocese on 25 March 1992 by Pope John Paul II by the bull Totus Tuus Poloniae populus. The metropolitan see is Lublin with the Archdiocesan Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist. The patron saints of the archdiocese are St. Stanislaus, bishop and martyr, and St. John Cantius.