Działania Wydziału do Spraw Wyznań w Płocku wobec Kościoła katolickiego w latach 1950–1989 w świetle dokumentów Archiwum Państwowego w Płocku
Activity of the Department for Religious Congregations in Płock viz. the Catholic Church in 1950–1989, in the light of documents in the State Archives in Płocku

Summary/Abstract: The actual scope of operation of the Office for Religious Matters – besides its statutory tasks that included the managing of statistics related to denominations, coordination of religious questions with those of other sectors, and preparation of draft legislative acts regulating the attitude of the state to individual religious communities – was defined by the anti-religious and anti-church policy of the governing Communist party, which aimed at the quickest possible atheisation of the country. In the case of the Mazowsze Płockie subregion, with passage of time the local religious administration became a permanent element of the para-religious life. Beginning with the early 1980s, a regression in the operation of the religious authorities in the country was observed. The state-and-party authorities resigned from a strongly confrontative attitude to the Catholic Church in Poland. This reduced the role of the local departments for religious congregations, which began to drown in the red-tape lethargy. Worth mentioning is the fact that the operation of the apparatus for controlling religious activity in Płock subregion received a onesided treatment, namely from the perspective of the documents of local religious administration gathered in the State Archive in Płock.

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