The Diocese of Przemyśl was erected ca. 1340. Pope Gregory XI by the bull Debitum pastoralis officii of 13 February 1375 incorporated it into the newly erected Archdiocese of Halich. Erected an archdiocese on 25 March 1992 by Pope John Paul II by the bull Totus Tuus Poloniae populus. The metropolitan see is Przemyśl with the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist.