Archdiocese of Madrid

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Archdiocese of Madrid
Map of the Archdiocese of Madrid
Basic data
Country Spain
Diocesan bishop Carlos Cardinal Osoro Sierra
Auxiliary bishop Juan Antonio Martínez Camino SJ
Jesús Vidal Chamorro
José Cobo Cano
Santos Montoya Torres
Emeritus diocesan bishop Antonio María Cardinal Rouco Varela
Vicar General Joaquín Iniesta Calvo-Zataraín
founding 1885
surface 3,663 km²
Parishes 481 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 4,040,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 3,511,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 86.9%
Diocesan priest 1,390 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 1,676 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,145
Permanent deacons 36 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 2,218 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 6,648 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Santa Maria la Real de La Almudena
Website www.archimadrid.es
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Alcalá de Henares
Diocese of Getafe
Ecclesiastical province
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Development of membership numbers

The Archdiocese of Madrid ( Latin Archidioecesis Matritensis , Spanish Archidiócesis de Madrid ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in the Spanish capital Madrid , the urban area of ​​which essentially forms the territory of the Archdiocese.

history

The diocese was spun off under the name Madrid-Alcalá on March 7, 1885 from the Archdiocese of Toledo and on March 25, 1964 by Pope Paul VI. with the Apostolic Constitution Romanorum Pontificum raised to the archbishopric without a seat of a metropolitan . On 23 July 1991, by that of John Paul II. Decreed Apostolic Constitution Cum Venerable the ecclesiastical province of Madrid created and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid raised to Metropolitanerzbistum, for its part, the bishoprics of the Alcalá de Henares and Getafe separated and as suffragan dioceses were subordinated.

The Archdiocese of Madrid has traditionally been associated with the cardinal dignity since Vicente Enrique y Tarancón in 1971 .

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Romanorum Pontificum , AAS 57 (1964), n.2, p. 150ff.
  2. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Cum Venerabilis , AAS 83 (1991), n.12, pp. 1009f.
Almudena Cathedral in Madrid