Diocese of Timisoara

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Diocese of Timisoara
Basic data
Country Romania
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Bucharest
Diocesan bishop József-Csaba Pál
Emeritus diocesan bishop Martin Roos
founding 1923
surface 24,755 km²
Parishes 73 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Residents 1,345,576 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics 108,379 (2014 / AP 2015 )
proportion of 8.1%
Diocesan priest 84 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious priest 6 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics per priest 1,204
Friars 7 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious sisters 41 (2014 / AP 2015 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language German
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
cathedral St. George
address St. Aug. Pacha 4
RO-1900 Timișoara
Cetate , România
Website http://www.dioecesistm.ro
Cathedral of St. George in Timisoara

The Roman Catholic diocese of Timișoara ( German : Timisoara ; Latin : Dioecesis Timisoarensis ) was established on June 5, 1930.

It was created as a result of the signing of the Concordat between the Romanian State and the Holy See from the Romanian parts of the Csanád diocese . In 1923 its bishopric was moved from Timișoara to Szeged .

history

At the end of the First World War , the Banat was divided into three . As a consequence, the Csanáder diocese was also divided into three parts, so 33 parishes and the city of Szeged remained with Hungary , 64 parishes with the center in Zrenjanin were incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbia , and 163 parishes and the city of Timișoara were assigned to the Kingdom of Romania . The Romanian area of ​​the former Csanáder diocese was transformed into an Apostolic Administration based in Timișoara on February 17, 1923 , and Canon Augustin Pacha was appointed Apostolic Administrator . In the same year Julius Glattfelder left the city of Timișoara as the last bishop of Csanád. On June 5, 1930, the Administratur Csanád-Timișoara of Pope Pius XI. raised to a diocese . Augustin Pacha, the previous titular bishop of Lebedo , was appointed the first bishop of the Diocese of Timișoara. In 1948 the diocese was demoted to the rank of deanery .

In 1950 Augustin Pacha and 44 priests were arrested. The successors Pachas, Joseph Pless , Iván Frigyér , Konrad Kernweisz and Ferdinand Hauptmann carried the title Ordinarius substitutus . Only Sebastian Kräuter received the title of Ordinarius Substitutus ad Nutum Sancti Sedis between 1983 and 1990 . The Timișoara Diocese was revived in 1990, and Kräuter was ordained as the new diocesan bishop. In 1999, Bishop Martin Roos took the helm of the Timișoara diocese as the 90th successor to St. Gérard , the founder of the Csanád diocese (1030-1046).

In 2004 the diocese looked after around 168,000 believers with a total of 91 priests, who make up 11.1% of the diocese's total population. For comparison, in 1950 there were still 267 priests caring for around 380,000 Catholics (29.2% of the total population at that time).

In 1992, the diocese opened a theological lyceum called Gerhardinum in the former Piarist high school (Timișoara) .

Bishops and Apostolic Administrators of the Timișoara Diocese

Surname title Years of office
Augustin Pacha Apostolic Administrator 1927-1930
Augustin Pacha bishop 1930–1954 imprisoned from 1950
Joseph Pless Ordinary substitute 1948-1951
Iván Frigyér Ordinary substitute 1951-1954
Konrad Kernweisz Ordinary substitute 1954-1981
Ferdinand Hauptmann Ordinary substitute 1981-1983
Sebastian herbs Ordinarius Substitutus ad Nutum Sancti Sedis 1983-1990
Sebastian herbs bishop 1990-1999
Martin Roos bishop 1999-2018
József-Csaba Pál bishop since 2018

See also

literature

  • Koloman Juhász , Adam Shift: The Timișoara-Temesvar Diocese: Past and Present . Typografia Sonntagsblatt, Timișoara 1934, p. 147 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Half-yearly publication.t-online.de , documents on Bishop Pacha from the Securitate archive
  2. ↑ Entry on the Diocese of Timișoara on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
  3. ↑ Lyzeum Gerhardinum ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )