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Patron Saints: Mary Queen of Poland, Saint Stanislaus da Szczepanów, Saint Adalbert, Saint Stanisław Kostka, Saint Andrzej Bobola

Saints: 34 Saints, 264 Blesseds

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Continent: East Europe

Capital: Warsaw

Area: 304,255 km²

Population: 38,476,269

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ Czechia , ← Germany , ↑ Sweden , ↑ Russia , ↗ Lithuania , → Belarus , ↘ Ukraine , ↓ Slovakia

Religions: Catholic 87.2% (includes Roman Catholic 86.9% and Greek Catholic, Armenian Catholic, and Byzantine-Slavic Catholic .3%), Orthodox 1.3% (almost all are Polish Autocephalous Orthodox), Protestant 0.4% (mainly Augsburg Evangelical and Pentacostal), other 0.4% (includes Jehovah's Witness, Buddhist, Hare Krishna, Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Muslim, Jewish, Mormon), unspecified 10.8%

Languages: Polish (official) 98.2%, Silesian 1.4%, other 1.1%, unspecified 1.3%

Ethnic Groups: Polish 96.9%, Silesian 1.1%, German 0.2%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other and unspecified 1.7%

Motto: Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna (Polish) (God, Honour, Fatherland)

Area: 323,250 km²

Catholic Population: 36,932,000 Catholics (97.6% of 37,840,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 10,393 parishes, 11 mission stations (with resident priest), 783 other centres

Clergy: 152 bishops (44 diocesan, 108 titular), 29,304 priests (22,812 diocesan, 6,492 religious), 64 permanent deacons (55 diocesan, 9 religious)

Non-Clergy: 18,974 religious (970 brothers, 18,004 sisters), 1,049 members of secular institutes (18 brothers, 1,031 sisters), 2,095 major seminarians, 23 missionaries, 12,294 catechists