Deanery Visp
| Deanery Visp | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| diocese | Diocese of Mores |
| Parishes | 20th |
| Liturgical language | German |
| Website | Parish deanery Visp |
The Visp deanery is one of 12 deaneries in the Catholic diocese of Sion , which covers most of the canton of Valais and the Aigle district in Vaud .
The Visp Dean's Office consists of the following five pastoral care regions :
- Saas Valley,
- Schattenberge and Zeneggen,
- Stalls,
- Visp,
- Zermatt - St. Niklaus
and the following twenty parishes :
| Pastoral care region | Parish / patron saint | Place / municipality | Believers (December 31, 2018) |
Area in km² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saas Valley
(former large parish Saas Grund) |
Bartholomew | Saas-Grund | 1000 | 24.6 |
| Heart of jesus | Saas-Fee | 1564 | 40.6 | |
| Precious blood | Saas-Balen | 347 | 30.2 | |
| St. Barbara | Saas-Almagell | 370 | 110.3 | |
| Schattenberge and Zeneggen * | Assumption Day | Zeneggen | 293 | 7.5 |
| Stalden | Trinity | Staldenried | 537 | 14.3 |
| Immaculate Conception | Ice | 204 | 38.0 | |
| St. Michael | Stalden | 1086 | 10.5 | |
| St. Peter and Paul | Embd | 295 | 13.4 | |
| St. Theodul | Törbel | 481 | 17.3 | |
| Visp | St. Joseph | Eggerberg | 335 | 6.0 |
| St. Joseph | Lalden | 649 | 1.4 | |
| St. Martin | Visp | 9034 | 44.6 | |
| St. Theodul | Visperterminen | 1345 | 51.6 | |
| Zermatt - St. Niklaus
(former parish of St. Niklaus |
Mary name | Herbriggen | see. St. Niklaus | |
| Immaculate Conception | Bag | 1322 | 58.7 | |
| St. Jakob d. Ä. | Grächen | 1251 | 14.3 | |
| St. Mauritius | Zermatt | 5758 | 242.7 | |
| St. Nicholas | St. Niklaus | 2239 | 89.3 | |
| St. Sebastian | Randa | 435 | 54.5 | |
| Total parishes 20 | 28,712 | 869.8 |
Compared to the Visp district, the Visp dean's office also includes Eggerberg , which is part of the Brig district. Baltschieder is part of the parish of St. Martin in Visp (parish of St. Martin Visp - Eyholz - Baltschieder).
* The region shadow mountains and Zeneggen a total of four parishes, but the parishes Eischoll, Unterbäch and Bürchen the deanery Raron belong.