Church St John the Baptist (Katholische Johanniskirche) in 1890 was built for the purposes of the Catholic Diaspora in Protestant Szczecin. An Engelbert Seibertz architect was the initiator of the scheme from Berlin. To 1945 the yr was an only Roman Catholic church in Szczecin. In 2008 the XVI Pope Benedykta granted the church of honourable St John the Baptist title of the smaller basilica