100 lat historii parafii św. Wojciecha w Elblągu

Abstract

Several generations of inhabitants of Elbląg have been brought up in Parish of St. Wojciech. These inhabitants have been living in here within two different political and national structures. Inhabitants speaking German used to form that community for the first 40 years. However, since year 1945 this land has become "New Homeland" for settlers from different parts of pre-war Poland (II Rzeczpospolita). And after year 1989, with transformation by "Round Table", the image of our community changed a bit. Studying the history of this Parish we can see that during past 100 years our Church has integrated with the history of our Region very much. The first priesthood in Elbląg was dedicated to working class. And such peculiarity of this Parish is also established nowadays. Parish of St. Wojciech in Elbląg used to be the part of Diocese of Warmia till year 1992. In fact our Church has concentrated not only religious life but social one as well. This Parish has enabled favourable conditions for development of cultural life, sociable and even public one. But first and foremost the history presents forms of missions of priests and tries to tell us more about specific forms of bigotry in this Region.