page_title: Polish Catholic Mission
section_title: France
hierarchical_section_title: Polish Catholic Mission / France
caption_attribution_description: English: Sacre Coeur seen from the top of Arc de Triomphe in Paris
context_page_description: The Polish Catholic Mission, Polish: Polska Misja Katolicka, is a permanent Catholic chaplaincy for migrant Poles. It operates in a number of countries under the direction of the Polish Episcopal Conference.
context_section_description: The oldest of all PMK European legations operates from its centre in Paris, already established in the 1830s by such national luminaries as Adam Mickiewicz, or Juliusz Słowacki who were obliged to emigrate to France after the 1831 November Uprising. The hub of the mission is the parish of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, Paris, dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary which collaborates with the Polish Adam Mickiewicz school in Paris, next to the Polish Embassy. As well as religious instruction, the parish offers Polish lessons for children and young people and various levels of French language teaching. There are well over a dozen Polish parishes and chapels in Paris that celebrate Mass in Polish, or in the event that there are Francophone visitors, in both Polish and French language.
  Every year Poles join a special Pilgrimage to the celebrated Sacre-Coeur basilica in Montmartre.
  Monsignor Stanisław Jeż was PMK rector in France from 1985 to 2015. Since 2015 the role is filled by rev. Bogusław Brzyś.
caption: The Sacré Coeur basilica seen from Arc de Triomphe
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