Church province of Freiburg
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| Country | Germany |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Freiburg |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Mainz Rottenburg-Stuttgart |
| Metropolitan | Stephan Burger |
| surface | 43.435 km² |
| Parishes | 2,424 |
| Residents | 12,423,772 |
| Catholics | 4,900,685 |
| proportion of | 39.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 2,437 |
| Religious priest | 520 |
| Catholics per priest | 1,657 |
| Permanent deacons | 511 |
| Friars | 714 |
| Religious sisters | 5,670 |
The ecclesiastical province of Freiburg , also known as the Upper Rhine ecclesiastical province , is an ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany .
geography
The ecclesiastical province extends with the dioceses of Freiburg and Rottenburg-Stuttgart over the whole of Baden-Württemberg . With the diocese of Mainz , it still includes large regions of Hesse and smaller areas of Rhineland-Palatinate .
structure
The ecclesiastical province of Freiburg includes the following dioceses:
history
development
In the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the territory ceded by the empire to France was withdrawn, but the ecclesiastical province of Mainz , which was dissolved by Napoléon in the 1801 Concordat , was not reestablished. Instead, the new Upper Rhine ecclesiastical province with a metropolitan seat in Freiburg was founded in 1821 . The Archdiocese of Freiburg emerged at the same time from the Diocese of Constance and parts of the former dioceses of Mainz , Strasbourg , Worms and Würzburg (Circumcription Bull Provida solersque ). First bishop was in 1827 the Freiburg Cathedral pastor Bernhard Boll .
The dioceses of Fulda, Limburg, Mainz and Rottenburg were assigned to the new archbishopric as suffragan dioceses. In the course of the Prussian Concordat of 1929, the Diocese of Limburg was assigned to the Church Province of Cologne and the Diocese of Fulda to the Church Province of Paderborn .