Church province of Paderborn

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Church province of Paderborn
Basic data
Country Germany
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Paderborn
Suffragan dioceses Erfurt
Fulda
Magdeburg
Metropolitan Hans-Josef Becker
surface 59.962 km²
Dean's offices 46
Parishes 1,390
Residents 13,205,000
Catholics 2,390,481
proportion of 18.1%
Diocesan priest 1,719
Religious priest 170
Catholics per priest 1,265
Permanent deacons 216
Friars 223
Religious sisters 3,009

The ecclesiastical province of Paderborn , also called Central German ecclesiastical province , is an ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany .

geography

The ecclesiastical province includes large areas in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia and in the north of Hesse , smaller areas in the south of Lower Saxony , large parts of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt , and smaller regions of Brandenburg and Saxony . Until the Archdiocese of Hamburg was founded on January 7, 1995, along with the Diocese of Hildesheim , most of Lower Saxony also belonged to the Paderborn ecclesiastical province.

structure

The ecclesiastical province today includes the following dioceses:

history

After its foundation around the year 800, the Diocese of Paderborn belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Cologne, later to the ecclesiastical province of Mainz and from 1821 back to the ecclesiastical province of Cologne . The church province of Paderborn was established in 1929/30. The basis was a by Pope Pius XI. Concordat concluded with Prussia and the papal bull Pastoralis officii nostri , in which Paderborn was elevated to an archbishopric . The church province included the dioceses when it was founded

Today's diocese of Magdeburg was separated from the Archdiocese of Paderborn by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Cum gaudio and made an independent diocese. At the same time, after a contract between the Holy See and the Free State of Thuringia on the establishment of the Diocese of Erfurt, the Episcopal Office of Erfurt-Meiningen was elevated to a diocese on July 8, 1994 and assigned to the ecclesiastical province of Paderborn. Since the Archdiocese of Hamburg was founded on January 7, 1995, the Diocese of Hildesheim has belonged to the Church Province of Hamburg .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 8.3 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 21"  E