Kalinówka Koscielna
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Kalinówka Kościelna k is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Knyszyn
Gmina Knyszyn
Gmina Knyszyn is an urban-rural gmina in Mońki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Knyszyn, which lies approximately south-east of Mońki and north-west of the regional capital Białystok....

, within Mońki County
Monki County
Mońki County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Mońki, which lies ...

, Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship , is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusssian Voblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and...

, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north of Knyszyn
Knyszyn
Knyszyn is a town in north-eastern Poland, northwest of Białystok. It is situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , and was formerly in the Białystok Voivodeship ....

, 9 km (6 mi) east of Mońki
Monki
Mońki is a town in northeastern Poland and, as of 1999, is situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. From 1975 to 1998 it was part of the Białystok Voivodeship . It is the capital of Mońki County....

, and 34 km (21 mi) north-west of the regional capital Białystok.

The village has a population of 205.

The parish was founded and the church built in 1511 by Mikołaj Radziwiłł, voivode of Vilnius. Its funding was increased by King Sigismund II Augustus
Sigismund II Augustus
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. The church in Kalinówka was under the patronage of Saint Anne
Saint Anne
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. A new church was built, perhaps around the middle of the 16th century, and the old one was transported to Brzozowa
Brzozowa, Monki County
Brzozowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jaświły, within Mońki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.-References:...

, which was a branch of the Kalinówka church. On 17 August 1761 the church in Kalinówka burned down, along with the archive and rectory
Rectory
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. It was rebuilt anew of larch
Larch
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 wood, thanks to the efforts of Rev. Adam Świerzbiński, pastor in Kalinówka, canon
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 of Inflanty. The construction undoubtedly lasted several years and was finished in 1776. This church was consecrated on 5 October 1777 by Brześć
Brest, Belarus
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 (of Łuck
Lutsk
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 diocese
Diocese
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) suffragan bishop
Suffragan bishop
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Jan Szyjkowski. This church has survived to modern times and continues to serve the faithful.

At that same time, that is, around 1774, a new rectory was built as well as other pastoral buildings, including a storeroom that has survived to our day and is registered as a monument [or relic]. The rectory from that time, on the other hand, was taken apart after a new one was built of brick and stone, in the days of pastor Rev. Antoni Kruk in the 1980s.
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