Archdiocese of Rijeka

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Archdiocese of Rijeka
Map of the Archdiocese of Rijeka
Basic data
Country Croatia
Diocesan bishop Ivan Devčić
founding 1920
surface 2,580 km²
Parishes 90 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 264,600 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 212,000 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 80.1%
Diocesan priest 88 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 44 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 1,606
Permanent deacons 1 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Friars 49 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 152 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Croatian
cathedral St. Vitus Cathedral
address Slaviše Vajnera Čiče 2
51000 Rijeka
Website rijeka-nadbiskupija.com
Suffragan dioceses Gospić-Senj
Krk
Poreč-Pula
St. Vitus Cathedral in Rijeka

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rijeka ( kroat. Riječka nadbiskupija , lat . Archidioecesis Fluminensis ) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in Croatia , based in Rijeka . The three dioceses of Gospić-Senj , Krk and Poreč-Pula are subordinate to the archbishopric as suffragans . The current archbishop is Ivan Devčić .

prehistory

On July 27, 1969, Pope Paul VI. a new ecclesiastical province founded with the Archdiocese of Rijeka - Senj . For this purpose, the diocese of Rijeka (which was founded on April 25, 1925 under Italian rule) was merged with the diocese of Modruš and the diocese of Senj. The Diocese of Modruš was thus dissolved, while the Diocese of Senj continues to exist on an equal footing with the Diocese of Rijeka. This new province was elevated to the rank of metropolitan archbishopric church. The three dioceses of Krk , Poreč and Pula were subordinated to it . Their bishops became suffragans of the Metropolitan of Rijeka-Senj. In 2000 the name was changed to Archdiocese of Rijeka . Part of the diocesan area was assigned to the newly established diocese of Gospić-Senj .

Diocese of Rijeka

So far there is no reliable knowledge about the existence of a medieval diocese based in Rijeka. Between 1818 and 1821 efforts were made to relocate the seat of the Modruš diocese to Rijeka, but since this would have required changes to the borders of the neighboring diocese, this project was abandoned. As a result of the Italian occupation, Rijeka only received its own diocese in 1925. It included parts of the dioceses Modruš , Trieste and Ljubljana . When these areas were granted to Yugoslavia with the peace treaty of 1947 , the Italian bishop Ugo Camozzo returned to Italy with a number of Italian priests. He was replaced by the apostolic administrator Karlo Jamnik , who was replaced in 1949 by the Bishop of Krk, Josip Srebrnić . During his tenure, the diocese was divided into a Croatian and a Slovenian part. The Slovenian part belonged administratively to the Bishop of Ljubljana . The Croatian part was entrusted to the Bishop of Senj-Modruš for administration on November 20, 1951.

In the past, the medieval Croatian script Glagoliza was widespread in the areas of today's Archdiocese of Rijeka-Senj , at least since the early 10th century. It was approved for liturgical texts in a letter from Pope Innocent IV to Bishop Philip von Senj from 1248. In 1620, during the tenure of Bishop Agatić , the need to print new liturgical books was emphasized at the Synod of Bribir to let. Soon afterwards, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, under the editing of Rafael Levaković, had a new Glagolitic Missal printed in 1631 and a breviary in 1648. Many of the bishops of Senj and Modruš stood out at the national and church levels. Especially noteworthy are Bishop Šimun Kozičić and Benjo von Modruš (1500–1531). Among the other bishops, Martin Brajković (1702–1704) and Ivan Kritelj Benzoni (1730–1745) are worth mentioning, both of whom tried very hard , albeit in vain, for the union with the newly arrived Serbian Orthodox Christian with the Roman Catholic Church . Among the bishops of the past century, Bishop Ozegović was particularly known for his Croatian patriotism.

See also

literature

  • The wounded church in Croatia. The destruction of the sacred building heritage in Croatia 1991-1995. ed. vd Croatian Bishops' Conference u. a., Zagreb 1996. ISBN 953-6525-02-X

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