Diocese of Breda
| Diocese of Breda | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Netherlands |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Utrecht |
| Diocesan bishop | Johannes Liesen |
| Vicar General | HCM Lommers |
| founding | 1853 |
| surface | 3,368 km² |
| Parishes | 42 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 1,150,000 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 423,000 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 36.8% |
| Diocesan priest | 88 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 116 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 2,074 |
| Permanent deacons | 25 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Friars | 207 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 413 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Dutch |
| cathedral | Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua |
| Website | www.bisdombreda.nl |
The diocese of Breda ( Latin Dioecesis Bredana , Dutch Bisdom Breda ) is one of the seven Roman Catholic dioceses of the Dutch ecclesiastical province . The diocese includes parts of the provinces of Zeeland and Noord-Brabant .
The forerunner of today's diocese of Breda is the Apostolic Vicariate of Breda, founded on March 22, 1803 from the Apostolic Vicariate 's-Hertogenbosch . On March 14, 1853, the Vicariate with additional areas from the Archdiocese of Mechelen and the Diocese of Ghent was raised to the diocese.
Today's Church of St. Anthony in the center of Breda was the cathedral of the diocese from 1853 to 1876. The title then passed to the newly built St. Barbara Church, which was demolished in 1970. In 1968 the Bishop's Church had been transferred to St. Michael's Church in Brabantpark, which in turn was demolished in 2007. Since 2001, the Church of St. Anthony, built in 1837, has again been the cathedra of the Bishop of Breda.
Bishops
- Adrianus van Dongen (1803-1826)
- Johannes van Hooydonk (1827–1867)
- Johannes van Genk (1868–1874)
- Henricus van Beek (1874-1884)
- Petrus Leyten (1885-1914)
- Pieter Hopmans (1914–1951)
- Joseph Baeten (1951–1961)
- Gerard de Vet (1962-1967)
- Hubertus Ernst (1967–1992)
- Martinus Muskens (1994-2007)
- Hans van den Hende (2007-2011)
- Johannes Liesen (since 2011)
Web links
- Official website (Dutch)
- Entry on the diocese of Breda on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Diocese of Breda In: gcatholic.org (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ Mgr. Dr. Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen , accessed on February 21, 2020.
- ↑ Horst Lademacher : History of the Netherlands. Politics - Constitution - Economy . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-07082-8 , p. 282.
