Ekumeniczny wymiar współdziałania duszpasterstwa penitencjarnego ze Służbą Więzienną na przykładzie Okręgu Lubelskiego

In the first part of the article the author mentions the Churches and religious associations whose representatives visit prisoners serving their sentences in the Lublin district. Among them there are chaplains of the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, numerous Protestant Churches and Jehovah's Witnesses. Further, he describes the legal foundations of prison pastorate and the principles of the functioning of chaplain's ministry in prisons. In the next part there is information concerning mutual ecumenical chapels, organizing academic-pastorate conferences, transmitting ecumenical values in the form of religious press. In the last part profits are mentioned for the Prison Service resulting from ecumenical co-existence of the prison pastorate in the cognitive dimension, in the dimension of understanding, closeness, tolerance, acceptance and spiritual development. Also, the author cites subject literature, including Orthodox literature.