Church province Bamberg
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Country | Germany |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Bamberg |
Suffragan dioceses |
Eichstatt Speyer Würzburg |
Metropolitan | Ludwig Schick |
surface | 30.738 km² |
Parishes | 1,538 |
Residents | 5,587,887 |
Catholics | 2,652,014 |
proportion of | 47.5% |
Diocesan priest | 1,604 |
Religious priest | 498 |
Catholics per priest | 1,262 |
Permanent deacons | 253 |
Friars | 785 |
Religious sisters | 3,310 |
The ecclesiastical province of Bamberg is an ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany .
geography
The ecclesiastical province is not geographically related. With the dioceses of Bamberg , Eichstätt and Würzburg, the largest part comprises the Bavarian part of Franconia and the northernmost part of Upper Bavaria . The other part of the province forms the diocese of Speyer , which includes the Palatinate (Bavaria) in Rhineland-Palatinate , as well as eastern parts of the Saarland .
structure
The following dioceses belong to the ecclesiastical province of Bamberg:
history
development
At the Imperial Synod in Frankfurt (Main), which began on November 1, 1007, King Heinrich II obtained the establishment of the Bamberg diocese from parts of Würzburg and Eichstätt . The diocese was directly subordinate to Rome ( exemt ), but formally belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Mainz . After secularization , the diocese became the seat of an archbishop and metropolitan due to the Bavarian Concordat of 1817. The bishoprics of Eichstätt, Speyer and Würzburg were assigned to the Metropolie Bamberg as suffragan dioceses.
Metropolitans
- 1818–1824 Count Joseph von Stubenberg
- 1824–1842 Joseph Maria Freiherr von Fraunberg
- 1842–1858 Bonifaz Kaspar von Urban
- 1858–1875 Michael von Deinlein
- 1875–1890 Friedrich von Schreiber
- 1890–1905 Joseph von Schork
- 1905–1912 Friedrich Philipp von Abert
- 1912–1943 Johann Jakob von Hauck
- 1943–1955 Joseph Otto Kolb
- 1955–1976 Josef Schneider
- 1977–1994 Elmar Maria Kredel
- 1995-2001 Karl Braun
- since 2002 Ludwig Schick