Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bratislava
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bratislava
Infobox Roman Catholic diocese
Roman Catholic Diocese of=Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bratislava
Latin name of diocese=Dioecesis Bratislaviensis
caption=The St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava
location=Bratislava, Slovakia
territory=Bratislava Region, parts of the Trnava Region
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rite=Roman Rite
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pope=Benedict XVI
metropolitan=Stanislav Zvolenský
The Archdiocese of Bratislava ( _sk. Bratislavská arcidiecéza, _la. Archidioecesis Bratislaviensis) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in western Slovakia including Bratislava and the western Trnava regions. It has its seat in Bratislava. The current archbishop is Stanislav Zvolenský.
History
It was first created as Apostolic Administration of Trnava on 29 May 1922, subordinate to the Archdiocese of Esztergom. On the order of Pope Paul VI on 30 December 1977, it was separated from the former, elevated to the status of diocese and renamed to the Archdiocese of Trnava, and it had at first suffragans of Nitra, Banská Bystrica, Rožňava, Košice and Spiš. On 31 March 1995, the archdiocese was renamed to Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava, and since then it had only suffragans of Banská Bystrica and Nitra. Its territory covered Bratislava, Trnava, Nitra (except the city of Nitra and the strip connecting it with the main part of the Diocese of Nitra), small part of the Trenčín and south-western part of the Banská Bystrica regions. As of 2004, it covered an area of approximately 14,000 km² with a population of 1,930,000 people of which around 70% were of Catholic faith. [ [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dbrtr.html Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava at catholic-hierarchy.org] ]
On 14 February 2008, the archdiocese was split between several dioceses. It was renamed from Bratislava-Trnava into Archdiocese of Bratislava and the seat moved from Trnava to Bratislava, which became the seat of the Slovak church. Trnava became seat of the newly-created Archdiocese of Trnava, which however still belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bratislava as its suffragan. Other parts of the former diocese have been split between the dioceses of Nitra and Banská Bystrica (see e.g. [http://www.kbs.sk/images/site_content/provincie_n.gifthis map (in Slovak)] .
References
External links
* [http://www.kbs.sk/?cid=1117223394 Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava] sk icon
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