As of 2014[update], it pastorally served 989,400 Catholics (85.3% of 1,160,000 total) on 14,814 km2 in 267 parishes a 2 missions with 641 priests (542 diocesan, 99 religious), 283 lay religious (107 brothers, 176 sisters) and 53 seminarians. Like in most Polish dioceses, church attendance has declined in the 21st century. According to the statistics 28.1% of the dioceses population attended church services weekly in 2013, however more than 40% did so back in 2000.
Episcopal ordinaries
Apostolic Administrators and Vicars of Kamień, Lubusz and the Prelature of Piła with see in Gorzów Wielkopolski
1945–1951: Administrator Edmund Nowicki (1900–1971), deposed and banished by Bolesław Bierut government
1958–1972 see below: Administrator Wilhelm Pluta (1910–1986), advanced to Bishop of Gorzów
Diocesan Bishops of Gorzów
Wilhelm Pluta (see above 1972.06.28 – death 1986.01.22)
Józef Michalik (1986.10.01 – 1992.03.25 see below)
Diocesan Bishops of Zielona Góra-Gorzów
Józef Michalik (see above 1992.03.25 – 1993.04.17), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Przemyśl (Poland) (1993.04.17 – retired 2016.04.30), Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Poland (1999 – 2004.03.18), President of Episcopal Conference of Poland (2004.03.18 – 2014.03.12), Vice-President of Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (2011.10.02 – 2014.10)