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As of 2020, the formal apostasy procedure in the Polish Catholic Church is a procedure defined on 7 October 2015 by the Episcopal Conference of Poland, which became effective as of 19 February 2016. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] It can only be done in person, by delivering an application to a church parish priest .
By the 13th century Roman Catholicism had become the dominant religion throughout Poland. [3] In adopting Christianity as the state religion, Mieszko sought to achieve several personal goals. [5] He saw Poland's baptism as a way of strengthening his hold on power, as well as using it as a unifying force for the Polish people.
It had not merged the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox denominations, but led to the establishment of the Slavic language liturgy Uniate Church, which was to become an Eastern Catholic Church, one of the Greek Catholic Churches (presently Ukrainian Greek Catholic and Belarusian Greek Catholic). The new church, of the Byzantine Rite, accepted ...
Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c. 900-c. 1300. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-78156-5. Manteuffel, Tadeusz (1982). The Formation of the Polish State: The Period of Ducal Rule, 963–1194 (Translated and with an Introduction by Andrew Gorski). Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1682-4.
After the Counter-Reformation, when the Catholic Church regained power in Poland, the szlachta became almost exclusively Catholic. [240] The Crown had about double the population of Lithuania and five times the income of the latter's treasury. As with other countries, the borders, area and population of the Commonwealth varied over time.
Dominika Gala grew up going to Mass with her grandmother and attending Catholic school in Warsaw. A decade later, when the Catholic leadership backed a near-total abortion ban in Poland, Gala made ...
Religion in Poland is rapidly declining, although historically it had been one of the most Catholic countries in the world. [2]According to a 2018 report by the Pew Research Center, the nation was the most rapidly secularizing of over a hundred countries measured, "as measured by the disparity between the religiosity of young people and their elders."
The Polish–Lithuanian state had become an influential player in Europe and a vital cultural entity, spreading Western culture eastward. Following the Reformation gains accompanied by religious toleration, the Catholic Church embarked on an ideological counter-offensive and Counter-Reformation claimed many converts from Protestant circles.