Church province of Munich and Freising

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Church province of Munich and Freising
Basic data
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 .

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