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The Polish Orthodox church is one of the independent Orthodox churches. The church was established in 1924 to accomodate the othodox christians in districts of Ukraina and Byelorussia aquired by Poland after WW1. This was in the beginning protested by the Patriarch of Russia. After WW2 the vast part of these territories were returned to the Soviet Union. Only a small number of church members remained in Polish land. In 1948 the church was granted a new charter independence by the Russian patriarchate.
The church is lead by the metropolitan of Warsaw. It is divided into five dioceses, Warsaw, Bialystok, Lódz, Wroclaw, and Gdansk.
The religion with most adherents in Poland is The Roman Catholic Church.
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