Archdiocese of Trnava

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Archdiocese of Trnava
Map of the Archdiocese of Trnava
Basic data
Country Slovakia
Ecclesiastical province Ecclesiastical province of Bratislava
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Bratislava
Diocesan bishop Ján Orosch
Emeritus diocesan bishop Róbert Bezák
Ján Sokol
founding February 14, 2008
surface 4,833 km²
Dean's offices 12 (2011 / AP 2013 )
Parishes 149 (2011 / AP 2013 )
Residents 637,400 (2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics 462.046 (2011 / AP 2013 )
proportion of 72.5%
Diocesan priest 178 (2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious priest 43 (2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics per priest 2,091
Friars 56 (2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious sisters 186 (2011 / AP 2013 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Slovak
cathedral St. John the Baptist
address Jána Hollého 10
917 66 Trnava
Slovenská republika
Website www.abu.sk

The Archdiocese of Trnava or Archbishopric Tyrnau ( Latin : Archidioecesis Tyrnaviensis , Slovak .: Trnavská arcidiecéza or Trnavské arcibiskupstvo ) is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Slovakia with its seat in Trnava .

history

Coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Trnava
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Trnava

The area of ​​today's Archdiocese of Trnava was separated from the Archdiocese of Esztergom on May 29, 1922 under canon law as the Apostolic Administratur Trnava . On December 30, 1977 Pope Paul VI. this administration with the Apostolic Constitution Praescriptionum sacrosancti completely out of the Metropolitan Union of Esztergom and raised it with the Apostolic Constitution Qui divino to the Archdiocese of Trnava and the seat of a metropolitan . The dioceses of Banská Bystrica , Košice , Nitra , Rožňava and Spiš were assigned as suffragan dioceses to the newly created church province .

With the decree of the Congregation for Bishops of May 31, 1995, the Archdiocese of Trnava was renamed the Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava and St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava was elevated to a co- cathedral . At the same time, with the elevation of the Diocese of Košice to the Archdiocese of the Apostolic Constitution Pastorali quidem permoti , Pope John Paul II established a second ecclesiastical province in Slovakia, to which the dioceses of Rožňava and Spiš were assigned and thus separated the aforementioned dioceses from the ecclesiastical province of Bratislava-Trnava .

On February 14, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI. with the Apostolic Constitution Slovachiae sacrorum, the area around Bratislava from the Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava and established the Archdiocese of Bratislava. At the same time, the seat of the Metropolitan was relocated from Trnava to Bratislava and the already existing ecclesiastical province of Bratislava-Trnava was restructured into the ecclesiastical province of Bratislava. The Archdiocese of Trnava is assigned to the Archdiocese of Bratislava as a suffragan, but still has the rank of an archbishopric whose archbishop does not wear a pallium because he no longer has the rank of metropolitan. The then Archbishop of Bratislava-Trnava, Ján Sokol, was appointed the first Archbishop of Trnava.

Diocese structure

The archbishopric is currently divided into twelve deaneries :

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benedictus XVI: Const. Apost. Slovachiae sacrorum , AAS 100 (2008), n.3 , p. 125ss.
  2. ↑ Holy See Press Office Daily Bulletin, February 14, 2008