Church Province of Berlin
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Country | Germany |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Berlin |
Suffragan dioceses |
Görlitz Dresden-Meißen |
Metropolitan | Heiner Koch |
surface | 57.867 km² |
Parishes | 269 |
Residents | 11,257,188 |
Catholics | 573,679 |
proportion of | 5.1% |
Diocesan priest | 540 |
Religious priest | 144 |
Catholics per priest | 839 |
Permanent deacons | 41 |
Friars | 202 |
Religious sisters | 843 |
The ecclesiastical province of Berlin is an ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany .
geography
The ecclesiastical province extends over large areas in the east of East Germany . It includes Berlin , Western Pomerania , large parts of Saxony , almost all of Brandenburg and smaller parts in the east of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . In terms of area, the Archdiocese of Berlin forms the largest part of the ecclesiastical province: it extends from Niederlausitz to the Baltic Sea coast .
structure
The following dioceses belong to the ecclesiastical province of Berlin:
history
development
Since the Protestant kings of Prussia did not tolerate Catholic bishops in their capital, a diocese could only be established in Berlin after the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the Weimar Republic . On June 27, 1994, Pope John Paul II raised the diocese of Berlin to an archbishopric with the suffragan dioceses of Dresden-Meißen and Görlitz through the Apostolic Constitution Certiori christifidelium . Today it is one of the traditional cardinal seats in Germany, next to Cologne , Munich and Freising .
Metropolitans
- Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky (1994–2011)
- Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki (2011-2014)
- Heiner Koch (since 2015)