Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden
| Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden | |
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| Country | Netherlands |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Utrecht |
| Diocesan bishop | Ron van den Hout |
| founding | 1956 |
| surface | 9,205 km² |
| Parishes | 81 (December 31, 2014 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 1,925,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 110,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 5.7% |
| Diocesan priest | 36 (December 31, 2014 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 3 (December 31, 2014 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 2,821 |
| Permanent deacons | 3 (December 31, 2014 / AP 2016 ) |
| Friars | 4 (December 31, 2014 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 11 (December 31, 2014 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Dutch |
| cathedral | St. Joseph Cathedral |
| address | Bisdom Ubbo Emmiussingel 79 9711 BG Groningen Nederland |
| Website | www.bisdomgroningen.nl |
The diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden ( Latin Dioecesis Groningensis-Leovardiensis , Dutch Bisdom Groningen-Leeuwarden ) is one of the seven Roman Catholic dioceses in the Dutch ecclesiastical province .
The diocese based in Groningen comprises the provinces of Groningen , Friesland and Drenthe as well as the Noordoostpolder .
history
The first diocese of Groningen was founded on May 12, 1559 with the intention of stopping the further advance of the Reformation . It emerged from the amalgamation of outsourced parts of the dioceses of Utrecht , Münster and Osnabrück . The cathedral at that time was the Martinskirche .
The diocese of Groningen existed until the city of Groningen was taken by Moritz of Orange on July 22nd, 1594. Two days later the altars and the images of saints in the Martinikerk were removed. The bishopric was declared dissolved by the state. Public Catholic services were banned. In 1616 only three priests were active in the area of the former diocese of Groningen.
The constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of October 11, 1848 gave the Catholic Church the right to restore the ecclesiastical hierarchy. As a result, five jurisdictions were (re) established in 1853 , but not the diocese of Groningen. Its former area came to the Archdiocese of Utrecht .
It was not until July 16, 1955, that the diocese of Groningen was reestablished from areas of the Archdiocese of Utrecht , whose suffragan diocese it became. St. Joseph's Church was chosen as the bishop 's church .
On November 26, 2005 the diocese was named "Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden".
Bishops
- Bishops of Groningen
- Johannes Knijff (1559–1576)
- Jan van Bruhesen (1576–1577)
- Arnold Nijlen (1577-1580)
- Jan van Bruhesen (1589–1592)
- Bishops of Leeuwarden
- Remigius Driutius (1561–1569)
- Cuneris Petri (1569-1580)
- Bishops of Groningen
- Petrus Antonius Nierman (1956–1969)
- Bernard Möller (1969–1999)
- Bishops of Groningen-Leeuwarden
- Willem Jacobus Eijk (1999-2008)
- Gerard de Korte (2008-2016, then Bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch )
- Ron van den Hout (since 2017)
literature
- Tom Knippers (Red.): Het licht rondom ... Het bisdom Groningen. Verslag van een daughter van vier kaarsen en logboeken long 85 parochies . Assen 2000.
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Antonius Marinus van Lommel: Brevis descriptio status, in quo est Ecclesia Catholica in partibus Belgii ab haereticis occupatis. Anno 1616 . In: Archief voor de geschiedenis van het bisdom Utrecht , Vol. 1 (1874), pp. 208–226, here pp. 224–225.
