page_title: Mariavite Church
section_title: Old Catholic Mariavite Church
hierarchical_section_title: Mariavite Church / Structure of the Mariavite churches / Old Catholic Mariavite Church
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Podział administracyjny Kościoła Starokatolickiego Mariawitów w Polsce English: Dioceses of the Mariavite Church (in Poland)
context_page_description: The Mariavite Church is today one of two independent Christian churches collectively known as Mariavites who first emerged from the religious inspiration of a devout Polish noblewoman, Feliksa Kozłowska in the late 19th-century. Initially, it was a renewal movement seeking reform in Polish Catholicism which in the estimation of sympathisers had become estranged from the original Gospel message, especially the clergy, seen at the time, as often corrupt in its life-style. The movement was an attempt to replicate the simplicity of the life of Mary, in Latin, qui Mariae vitam imitantur, thus vita Mariae, the Life of Mary, gave the movement its name.
  After a growing conflict with Polish Catholic bishops, the movement was eventually reported to the Vatican as an attack on the ecclesiastical status quo and became the object of two Papal bulls that resulted in the wholesale excommunication of both clergy and lay adherents of the movement.
context_section_description: Leaders:
  1906–1935: Jan Maria Michał Kowalski
  1935–1945: Maria Filip Feldman
  1945–1953: Roman Maria Jakub Próchniewski
  1953–1955: Wacław Maria Bartłomiej Przysiecki
  1955–1965: Jan Maria Michał Sitek
  1965–1972: Wacław Maria Innocenty Gołębiowski
  1972–1997: Stanisław Maria Tymoteusz Kowalski
  1997–2007: Zdzisław Maria Włodzimierz Jaworski
  2007–2015: Michał Maria Ludwik Jabłoński
  2015–present: Marek Maria Karol Babi
  Administration:
  organized into three dioceses in Poland with 38 parishes and one province in France with 2 parishes:
  Diocese of Warsaw-Płock with cathedral in Płock
  Diocese of Podlasie-Lublin with cathedral in Cegłów
  Diocese of Silesia-Łódź with cathedral in Łódź
  Province of France (French: Province de France de l'Eglise Vieille-Catholique Mariavite) with cathedral in Paris
caption: Dioceses of the Old Catholic Mariavite Church in Poland
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