Archdiocese of Barcelona

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Archdiocese of Barcelona
Map of the Archdiocese of Barcelona
Basic data
Country Spain
Diocesan bishop Juan José Cardinal Omella Omella
Auxiliary bishop Sergi Gordo Rodríguez
Antoni Vadell Ferrer
Emeritus diocesan bishop Cardinal Lluís Martínez Sistach
Vicar General Jaume Riera Rus
founding 1595
surface 339 km²
Parishes 214 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Residents 2,661,538 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics 2,119,915 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
proportion of 79.6%
Diocesan priest 414 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious priest 448 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics per priest 2,459
Permanent deacons 40 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Friars 695 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious sisters 2,584 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Catalan , Spanish , Latin
cathedral St. Eulalia Cathedral
Website arqbcn.org
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Sant Feliu de Llobregat
Diocese of Terrassa
Ecclesiastical province
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Development of membership numbers

The Archdiocese of Barcelona ( Latin Archidioecesis Barcinonensis , Catalan Arquebisbat de Barcelona , Spanish Archidiócesis de Barcelona ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Barcelona in Spain .

history

The diocese of Barcelona was founded as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tarragona in the 4th century . Through Pope Paul VI. the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese with the Apostolic Constitution Laeto animo on March 25, 1964 and as an immediate archbishopric without suffragan dioceses directly subordinated to the Holy See . In addition, the Archbishop of Barcelona was given the privilege of wearing the pallium without being a metropolitan . Gregorio Modrego y Casaus became the first archbishop . On June 15, 2004, Pope John Paul II decreed the establishment of the dioceses of Sant Feliu de Llobregat and Terrassa in areas previously belonging to the Archdiocese of Barcelona with the Apostolic Constitution Ad totius dominici gregis . At the same time, Barcelona was made a metropolitan seat and the newly founded dioceses were assigned to it as suffragans.

Archbishops of Barcelona (from 1964)

See also

Web links

Commons : Archdiocese of Barcelona  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Laeto animo , AAS 57 (1965), n.2, p. 152f.
  2. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Ad totius dominici gregis , AAS 96 (2004), n.10, p. 6f.
St. Eulalia Cathedral