Diocese of Tarnow and its organisational structure in1933, at the time of entry for the rule of bishop Franciszek lisowski

Bishop Franciszek Lisowski (1876-1939), on coming to the Tarnow, found a diocese well developed in terms of the organization and the pastoral care. This was thanks to his predecessor, Archbishop Leon Wałęga (1859-1933), who resided over it for more than thirty years. In 1933 there were 28 deaneries with 268 parishes and nearly one million Catholics in the Tarnowska diocese. It had more than 500 priests. The Bishop also found a well developed monastic life. A number of male and female monasteries stand out in this diocese, among them the Rzeczpospolita, where many of the monasteries, especially in the 19th century, had been liquidated. The new seminary was an important issue for the new Bishop. He had vast experience in this respect, because he was associated for 20 years with the Lviv Seminary, where he was a supervisor. When he assumed the Tarnowska diocese, the Rector of Seminary was an auxiliary Bishop, Edward Komar. In the seminary there were 131 seminarians. Bishop Lisowski entrusted the entire Tarnowska diocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the beginning of his rule. This was an evidence of his deep faith that every day he shared with the faithful