List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany
- Over 70
- 60-70
- 50-60
- 40-50
- 30-40
- 20-30
- 10-20
- Under 10
In the Roman Catholic Church in Germany there are 27 dioceses ( bishoprics ). Several dioceses - the suffragans - together form an ecclesiastical province, which is headed by a Metropolitan. The Metropolitan is in Germany always the Bishop of mostly historically long traditional archdiocese of the Ecclesiastical Province, and accordingly an archbishop. Today's diocesan relations go back to a relevant reorganization during the reunion of 1990.
History
Most archdioceses come from historical times, that is, there are old, mostly large dioceses (such as Cologne, Munich and Freising, Paderborn ). Some dioceses were in earlier times archdioceses (eg Mainz). By 1990, Germany had five archdioceses and thus five ecclesiastical provinces. After the reunification of the church landscape has been rearranged in Germany and created in the sequence including the Archdiocese of Berlin. These joined the Holy See in 1994 with the relevant new states Treaties establishing the bishoprics of Magdeburg, Görlitz and from Erfurt. In the same year Archdiocese of Hamburg was newly established.
Today's dioceses in Germany
In the following, a total of 27 dioceses (7 archdioceses and dioceses 20 ) are listed ( Dec. 31, 2010). The Archdiocese ( in bold), together with its suffragan sees each ecclesiastical province.
In the last column the backgrounds with Catholics shares above the national average ( 30.1 %) and over 50 % for each are obscured ascending, brightened at levels of less than 10%, however.
Historical dioceses in the Holy Roman Empire
Historical dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church German until the end of the Holy Roman Empire Nation:
- Archdiocese of Hamburg -Bremen † (now Archdiocese of Hamburg ):
- Archdiocese of Cologne:
- Archbishopric of Magdeburg † (now Diocese of Magdeburg ):
- Archbishopric of Mainz ( Mainz diocese today ):
- Archbishopric of Salzburg (now Austria ):
- Archdiocese Vienna ( Austria ):
- Archbishopric of Riga ( † meantime, today Latvia):
- Ecclesiastical Province of Uppsala:
- Archbishopric of Trier (now the Diocese of Trier ):
- Bishopric of Bamberg (now Archdiocese of Bamberg)
- Bishopric of Warmia (now Archdiocese of Warmia, Poland)
- Diocese of Pomerania † (now Archdiocese of Szczecin - Pomerania, Poland)
- Archdiocese of Breslau (now Poland)
- Prelature Schneidemühl †
† = under Gone ( arch) diocese
Data to the dioceses
The largest area of the diocese is the Archdiocese of Hamburg with 32,489 km ², is the smallest of the Diocese of Essen with 1877 km ². Most Catholics in the Archdiocese of Cologne with 2.16 million, the fewest in the Diocese of Görlitz with 30 394. The highest proportion of Catholics has the diocese of Passau with 88.9 %, the lowest the Diocese of Dresden - Meissen 3.4%. The oldest diocese, the diocese of Trier from the year 270, the youngest of the Diocese of Görlitz from the year 1994.