Roman Catholicism in Monaco

The Roman Catholic Church in Monaco to 1887 was canonically part of a French diocese after diocese was immediates, and is now an independent archbishopric without being a metropolitan diocese, reports directly to the Holy See.

Prince Rainier I. declared the Roman Catholic Church as the state church.

On March 15, 1887 2 km ² large principality was given its own diocese in the Mediterranean. With the increasing number of inhabitants and the number of believers grew 1949-2002 from 14,950 to 29,000. In Monaco, approximately 90.6 % of the population are Roman Catholic. The bishops, who almost always came from France, received on 30 July 1981 Title of an archbishop, because Monaco immediates Archbishopric was.

Today, the archdiocese counts 13 diocesan and 7 religious. At the same time 15 nuns live in the six parishes of Monaco.

The Apostolic Nuncio of Monaco in 2006 André Pierre Louis Dupuy.