Roman Catholic Church in Montenegro

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The Roman Catholic Church in Montenegro is a small diaspora church . About 21,000 Catholics live in Montenegro. Most of the country’s inhabitants belong to the Orthodox Church , besides the Catholic there is also a Muslim minority in Montenegro.

Dioceses

Map of the Catholic dioceses in Montenegro
  • Archdiocese of Bar
  • Diocese of Kotor

    • There are two Roman Catholic dioceses, the immediate Archdiocese of Bar and the Diocese of Kotor . Most of the faithful in the Diocese of Kotor speak Croatian , the Catholics there belong to the Croatian minority of Montenegro. Kotor is traditionally a suffragan of the Dalmatian metropolis Split-Makarska and the Bishop of Kotor is a member of the International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius . In the Archdiocese of Bar, slightly more than half of the Catholics speak Albanian . On January 19, 2013, all Greek Catholics in Montenegro were integrated into the Roman Catholic Church in Montenegro.

    literature

    • Konrad Clewing: Persistence, Emigration and National Confessions: Catholic Worlds in Montenegro . In: Renovabis (ed.): Small country with a great history - Montenegro . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7917-2958-9 , pp. 286–291.

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