Church province of Munich and Freising
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Country | Germany |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Munich and Freising |
Suffragan dioceses |
Augsburg Passau Regensburg |
Metropolitan | Reinhard Cardinal Marx |
surface | 45.357 km² |
Dean's offices | 126 |
Parishes | 2,812 |
Residents | 7,897,755 |
Catholics | 5,154,156 |
proportion of | 65.3% |
Diocesan priest | 2,863 |
Religious priest | 664 |
Catholics per priest | 1,461 |
Permanent deacons | 384 |
Friars | 1,543 |
Religious sisters | 7.213 |
The church province of Munich and Freising is an ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany .
geography
The church province roughly comprises the Bavarian administrative districts of Swabia , Upper Palatinate , Upper Bavaria and Lower Bavaria .
structure
In addition to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, the dioceses of Augsburg , Passau and Regensburg belong to the church province of Munich and Freising .
history
The church provinces of Munich and Freising have only existed since 1817/21. Major parts of the newly founded ecclesiastical province were previously part of the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg . The diocese of Regensburg lost the title of archbishopric that Kurmainz had won in 1803 . The former Bishopric of Freising was an under concordat with the Bavarian State from 1817 and the dioceses - reform of 1821 as a Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising also from parts of the Bishopric of Chiemsee and the archbishopric of Salzburg rebuilt. The seat of the archbishopric and the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province has been Munich since then .
Metropolitans
- Lothar Anselm Freiherr von Gebsattel (1821–1846)
- Karl August Graf von Reisach (1846–1856), then Cardinal to the Curia , † 1869
- Gregor von Scherr OSB (1856–1877)
- Antonius von Steichele (1878-1889)
- Antonius von Thoma (1889-1897)
- Franz Joseph von Stein (1898–1909)
- Francis Cardinal von Bettinger (1909-1917)
- Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber (1917–1952)
- Joseph Cardinal Wendel (1952–1960)
- Julius Cardinal Döpfner (1961–1976)
- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (1977–1982), then Cardinal Curia , 2005–2013 Pope Benedict XVI.
- Friedrich Cardinal Wetter (1982–2007), then Apostolic Administrator
- Reinhard Cardinal Marx (since February 2, 2008)