Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen
The Diocese of Copenhagen (Latin: Dioecesis Hafniae ) is the only Roman Catholic diocese of Denmark and includes the entire Kingdom of Denmark, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland. It is geographically one of the largest dioceses in the world. The bishop's seat is located in the capital of Copenhagen. Diocesan patron saint is Saint Ansgar, the Apostle of Scandinavia.
History
The Catholic Church in Denmark is a diaspora church and is directly subordinate to the Holy See. During the Reformation the bishops had been deposed in 1536 and replaced by new Lutheran superintendent ( in the 17th century again assumed the title of bishop ). Only in the 19th century, Catholic missionaries arrived in the country and founded on August 7, 1868, the Apostolic Vicariate of North Mission, which included the territory of Denmark, from the Apostolic Vicariate of the North out. For this, the island of Bornholm and the Swedish Vicariate Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands came from the North Pole mission. A year later it was to become the Apostolic Prefecture Denmark downgraded to the March 15, 1892 raised to the Vicariate Apostolic of Denmark. 1920, North Schleswig by the Apostolic Prefecture of Schleswig- Holstein with the Breve Quae catholico to the Danish Vicariate. On 12 June 1923, Iceland was from establishing the Apostolic Prefecture Iceland. On 29 April 1953, with the Bull Certiores facti by Pius XII. the Diocese of Copenhagen founded. The approximately 35,000 diocesan are predominantly immigrants and their descendants.
Greenland
According to the chronicle of Adam of Bremen of 1076 Greenland was already Christian. In the first quarter of the 12th century it had its own bishop in today's Igaliku. The arrival of the Inuit in Greenland seems to have from 1400, the Catholic Church set on the island to an end. From the 18th century a Neumissionierung was held by Protestant preachers.