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Lutheran Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland

Polish church

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ1231928 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland is one of the six dioceses constituting the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland. The cathedral of the diocese is the Church of the Redeemer, Sopot.

Location

The Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland is located in western Poland. Its territory includes Greater Poland Voivodeship, Pomeranian Voivodship, Kujawy, and the eastern part of West Pomeranian Voivodship.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lutheran Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland” as polish church. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lutheran, Diocese and Pomerania-Greater can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as polish church. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1231928. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lutheran Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lutheran Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland primary sources, Lutheran Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland archive and Lutheran research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Lutheran Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lutheran Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.