Diocese of Helsinki (Roman Catholic)

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Diocese of Helsinki (Roman Catholic)
Map of Helsinki Diocese (Roman Catholic)
Basic data
Country Finland
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Diocesan bishop Sedis vacancy
Diocesan administrator Marco Pasinato
Emeritus diocesan bishop Teemu Sippo SCJ
founding 1955
surface 338,145 km²
Parishes 8 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
Residents 5,517,919 (December 31, 2018 )
Catholics 15,483 (December 31, 2018 )
proportion of 0.3%
Diocesan priest 15 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 11 (12/31/2015 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 596
Friars 12 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 25 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Finnish , Latin
cathedral St. Henry's Cathedral
Website katolinen.fi

The Diocese of Helsinki ( Latin Dioecesis Helsinkiensis ) is the only Roman Catholic diocese in Finland with its seat in the capital Helsinki ; as a territory it includes all of Finland.

coat of arms

history

After the life of the Catholic Church in Finland was extinguished with the Reformation , the first new beginnings were made at the beginning of the 20th century. On June 8, 1920, an Apostolic Vicariate was established from the Archdiocese of Mahiljou , which was entrusted to the Sacred Heart Priests from Germany and in 1950 already counted 1,789 believers and four local diocesan priests.

On February 25, 1955, the Vicariate Apostolic was elevated to the diocese of Helsinki, which includes the whole country. By 2016, the number of Catholics increased steadily to 13,942, but this does not represent more than 0.3% of the population. At that time, 15 local diocesan priests as well as 11 religious priests and 25 religious sisters lived and worked in the diocese, many of whom came from abroad.

In 2000, the management of the diocese passed into Polish hands, as the German Province of the Sacred Heart Priests could no longer provide the necessary priests for the Nordic Mission, so that this year, Józef Wróbel, a Polish bishop for Helsinki, was appointed . From 2009 to 2019, Teemu Sippo was the first native of Finland to be Bishop of Helsinki. The diocese has been vacant since Sippo's resignation for health reasons.

Churches

Diocese of Helsinki (Roman Catholic) (Finland)
Helsinki
Helsinki
Turku
Turku
Tampere
Tampere
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä
Kouvola
Kouvola
Oulu
Oulu
Kuopio
Kuopio
Catholic churches in Finland
St. Henry's Cathedral in Helsinki

The eight parishes are spread over the whole of Finland from Oulu in northern Finland to the capital Helsinki in the south.
These communities are located in:

Vicars Apostolic

Bishops

Web links

Commons : Roman Catholic Diocese of Helsinki  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. catholic-hierarchy.org: Diocese of Helsinki, November 23, 2019, accessed on February 22, 2020. (English)