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15-18 June 2025: The annual meeting of the General Secretaries of the European Bishops’ Conferences in Istanbul
The annual meeting of the General Secretaries of the European Bishops’ Conferences will take place in Istanbul, from 15 to 18 June 2025, organised by the CCEE in collaboration with the Turkish Bishops’ Conference. The theme for this year is: “The Reform of the Ecclesiastical Structures in a Missionary and Synodal Perspective”. Bishop Marek Marczak, Secretary General of the Polish Bishops' Conference, is taking part in the meeting.
Polish Bishops' Conference spokesman: Let our communication contribute to building mutual understanding
May our communication in the media be unambiguous, based on values, permeated by gentleness and forbearance, so that in this way we contribute to building mutual understanding - said Polish Bishops' Conference spokesman Fr. Leszek Gęsiak SJ on the occasion of World Day of Social Communications, celebrated in Poland on the third Sunday of September. This year, it falls on September 17.
The President of the Polish Bishops' Conference celebrating his 50th anniversary as a priest (Announcement)
On Saturday, 10 June, the main thanksgiving celebrations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the priesthood of Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, Metropolitan of Poznań and President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, will be held in Poznań. He was ordained a priest on 9 June 1973 by Blessed Stefan Wyszyński in the Primate's Basilica in Gniezno.
Communiqué After the Council of Diocesan Bishops
The beatification of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński and Mother Elżbieta Rosa Czacka, the Ad Limina visit of the Polish Bishops, the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, and the situation of migrants and refugees – these are the most important issues raised in the communiqué of the session of the Diocesan Bishops’ Council held at Jasna Góra on August 25th.
The President of the Polish Episcopate thanked the faithful for their discipline
I would like to thank all the faithful for their discipline, the priests for their Sunday ministry and the medical services for their service to life - said Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference. He expressed his hope that from the current situation of the pandemic the good of seeking the Word of God will arise.
President of the Polish Bishops' Conference expresses condolences following the death of Pope Senior Benedict XVI
Together with the whole Church in Poland, I thank the Lord God for the beautiful life and pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, trusting that they are already bringing a blessed harvest now and will bring a blessed harvest in the future," wrote the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki in his condolences following the death of Pope Senior Benedict XVI.
Bishops after the meeting of the Council of Diocesan Bishops on Religious Education, the Commission of Independent Experts and the restructuring of the Polish Bishops’ Conference's media entities
Changes in the organisation of Religious Education in schools, the status of work on establishing a Commission of Independent Experts to Investigate the Sexual Abuse of Minors by Some Clergy, and the restructuring of media entities dependent on the Polish Bishops’ Conference – these were the topics discussed by participants at a press briefing summarising the deliberations of the Council of Diocesan Bishops, which took place on 25 August this year at Jasna Góra.
"Ad limina Apostolorum" of the Polish Bishops from September to October 2021
From the end of September to the beginning of October this year, the Polish Bishops will go to the Vatican for their visit "ad limina Apostolorum" (lit. to the thresholds of the Apostles). Due to the unstable sanitary situation, the precise dates of the visit are not yet known. They will be determined and announced later.
