Church Province of Hamburg
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| Country | Germany |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Hamburg |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Hildesheim Osnabrück |
| Metropolitan | Stefan Heße |
| surface | 75.227 km² |
| Parishes | 625 |
| Residents | 13,613,822 |
| Catholics | 1,623,395 |
| proportion of | 11.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 880 |
| Religious priest | 176 |
| Catholics per priest | 1,537 |
| Permanent deacons | 205 |
| Friars | 204 |
| Religious sisters | 1,742 |
The ecclesiastical province of Hamburg , also known as the North German ecclesiastical province , is a church province of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany .
geography
With a total area of 75,227 km², the church province is the largest in Germany . It extends over Schleswig-Holstein , Hamburg , Bremen , Lower Saxony and the Mecklenburg part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . With the exception of Western Pomerania (which belongs to the Archdiocese of Berlin ) and the Oldenburger Land in Lower Saxony ( Bischöflich Münstersches Officialat ) , it includes five northern German federal states .
structure
The following dioceses are part of the ecclesiastical province of Hamburg:
history
development
The Archdiocese of Hamburg and with it the ecclesiastical province of Hamburg was only rebuilt on October 24, 1994 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Omnium Christifidelium with effect from January 7, 1995. The first archbishop of the newly founded archbishopric was the Osnabrück bishop Ludwig Averkamp on January 7, 1995 . He resigned from his position on February 16, 2002 for reasons of age, and Werner Thissen succeeded him on January 25, 2003 . On March 21, 2014 Pope Francis accepted Archbishop Thissen's age-related resignation and on March 14, 2015 Stefan Heße was consecrated as his successor.
Metropolitans
- Ludwig Averkamp (1995-2002)
- Werner Thissen (2003-2014)
- Stefan Heße (since 2015)
