Roman Catholic Diocese of Spiš
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The Diocese of Spiš (Slovak: Spišská diecéza, Latin: Dioecesis Scepusiensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in northern Slovakia. It covers central and eastern parts of the Žilina Region and western part of the Prešov Region. Its seat is in Spišské Podhradie, covers an area of 7,802 km² with 583,633 people of which 76.6% are of Catholic faith (2004). The current bishop is Štefan Sečka.[1]
History
The diocese was established on 13 March 1776 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Esztergom. In 1804, its metropolitan was changed to the Archdiocese of Eger. On 30 December 1977, it was taken from the former and became part of the newly created Slovak ecclesiastical province with metropolitan being the Diocese of Trnava. The last change of metropolitan took place on 31 March 1995 when it was changed to the newly-elevated Archdiocese of Košice.
External links
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- Roman Catholic Church in Slovakia
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