St. Bartholomew's Church Gdańsk

St. Bartholomew's Church stands in today's Zaułek Św. Bartłomieja, which runs directly south of the church and was only laid out in the 1990s. The former St.-Bartholomäi-Kirchgasse, which ran west of the church, was abolished in connection with the construction of the Galeria Handlowa Madison shopping center.

The origins of St. Bartholomew's Church date back to the 1480s, when a Gothic chapel was built in Gdańsk's Old Town. As early as 1524, the Lutheran rite was introduced in St. Bartholomew's Church, although there was no spiritual ministry in Gdańsk until 1566, with Johann Kittel as senior. The church tower was added to the existing church between 1591 and 1600.

After the destruction of World War II and the reconstruction, St. Bartholomew's Church initially passed into the hands of the Jesuits, who used it until 1990. On February 24, 1967, the house of worship was placed under monument protection. The then Archbishop of Gdańsk, Tadeusz Gocłowski, made the church available on July 3, 1997, to the Greek Catholic community in Gdańsk, founded in 1957, which has operated it ever since. Since then, under the full name "St. Bartholomew and Protection of the Mother of God," it has also been the co-cathedral of the Eparchy of Wrocław-Gdańsk, founded in 1996. Against this background, a statue of St. Vladimir was erected in front of the church.