Vicariate Apostolic Anatolia

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Vicariate Apostolic Anatolia
Map of the Vicariate Apostolic Anatolia
Basic data
Country Turkey
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Apostolic Vicar Paolo Bizzeti SJ
Parishes 6 (December 31, 2010 / AP 2011 )
Residents 4,500,000 ( 1970 )
Catholics 4,363 (December 31, 2010 / AP 2011 )
proportion of 0%
Diocesan priest 1 (December 31, 2010 / AP 2011 )
Religious priest 7 (December 31, 2010 / AP 2011 )
Catholics per priest 545
Friars 8 (December 31, 2010 / AP 2011 )
Religious sisters 7 (December 31, 2010 / AP 2011 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Turkish
cathedral Cathedral of the Annunciation, İskenderun
Co-cathedral Co-Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua, Mersin
Website www.anadolukatolikkilisesi.org

The Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia ( lat. : Apostolicus Vicariatus Anatoliensis ) is in Turkey situated Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate based in İskenderun .

history

The Apostolic Prefecture of Trebizond was established on March 13, 1845 from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate of Constantinople and entrusted to the Capuchins , who were expelled by the Russians from the mission in Tbilisi . It included the coastal region on the Black Sea (for this reason it was also known as the Black Sea Apostolic Prefecture) and in central-eastern Anatolia. On September 12, 1896, the Apostolic Prefecture was dissolved and its territory returned to the Vicariate Apostolic of Constantinople. Pope Pius XI separated the particular churches on June 20, 1931 with the Breve Quae Christiani again and this time the Mission sui juris Trebizond, based in Samsun, was directly subordinated to the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide , which essentially received the same area of ​​the former Apostolic Prefecture.

With the decree Quo Melius of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches on November 30, 1990, she was raised to a Vicariate Apostolic, including southern Central Anatolia (previously part of the Vicariate Apostolic of Constantinople) and assuming its current name. The seat of the Apostolic Vicar was the city of Mersin , who moved to Iskenderun on June 29, 2000.

Vicar Apostolic Luigi Padovese OFMCap , who was also chairman of the Turkish Catholic Bishops' Conference CCEE , was murdered on June 3, 2010.

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefect of Trebizond

Superiore of Trebizond

Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics per priest Friars Religious sisters
1950 175 3,850,000 0.0 4th 4th 43 3
1970 200 4,500,000 0.0 4th 2 2 50 4th
1999 3,000 ? ? 10 1 9 300 1 19th 10 6th
2000 4,500 ? ? 11 5 6th 409 1 15th 10 7th
2002 4,500 ? ? 14th 8th 6th 321 1 14th 12 6th
2003 4,550 ? ? 9 3 6th 505 1 14th 12 7th
2004 4,550 ? ? 11 4th 7th 413 1 15th 11 8th

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Turkey: Chairman of the Bishops' Conference stabbed to death ( Memento from May 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Vatican Radio, June 3, 2010
  2. ^ "Pope appoints apostolic administrator for Anatolia" , kath.web.at, June 12, 2010

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