Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana
The Archdiocese of Ljubljana (Latin: Archidioecesis Labacensis; Slovenian: Nadškofija Ljubljana. ) Is an Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic church located in Ljubljana (German: Laibach ). Together with the suffragan Koper and Novo mesto, it forms the Ecclesiastical Province of Ljubljana.
History
The Diocese of Ljubljana was at the suggestion of the Emperor Frederick III. erected on December 6, 1461 by Pope Pius II. For the first Bishop Sigismund von Lamberg was ordered. After the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy renamed in 1918 in the diocese of Ljubljana, it was on 22 December 1961 by Pope John XXIII. raised to an archbishopric. With the reorganization of the diocese of Trieste ( Trieste- Koper) Koper was incorporated as a suffragan of Ljubljana and by Pope Paul VI. on November 22, 1968 erected the ecclesiastical province. Ljubljana has since been the seat of a metropolitan. In the restructuring of the Slovenian Church in 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI. was created by assigning the Diocese of Ljubljana, Novo mesto, further belongs to the Ecclesiastical Province of Ljubljana.
Bishops and archbishops
- List of bishops of Ljubljana