Archdiocese of Košice
| Archdiocese of Košice Archidioecesis Cassoviensis Košická arcidiecéza | |
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Cathedral of St. Elizabeth in Košice
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| Location | |
| Country | Slovakia |
| Ecclesiastical province | Košice |
| Metropolitan | Bernard Bober |
| Archdeaconries | 3 (Abov - Cathedral, Šariš, Zemplín |
| Deaneries | 20 |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 10,403 km2 (4,017 sq mi) |
| Population Total Catholics |
(as of 2020[1]) 1,153,008 522,008 ( 45.3%) |
| Parishes | 216 |
| Churches | 592 |
| Schools | 39 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 10 August 1804 (As Diocese of Košice) 31 March 1995 (As Archdiocese of Košice) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St. Elizabeth in Košice |
| Co-cathedral | Saint Nicholas Concathedral |
| Patron saint | Andrew the Apostle |
| Secular priests | 430 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Bernard Bober |
| Suffragans | Diocese of Rožňava, Diocese of Spiš |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Marek Forgáč |
| Episcopal Vicars | Zoltán Pásztor, Vladimír Šosták |
| Map | |
| Map of the Archdiocese | |
| Website | |
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The Archdiocese of Košice (Slovak: Košická arcidiecéza, Latin: Archidioecesis Cassoviensis) is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Slovakia, with its seat in Košice. It covers the central and eastern parts of the Prešov and Košice regions, with an area of 10,403 km2. The diocese's area has a total population of 1,153,505 people, of which around 61% were of Catholic faith as of 2012. The Cathedral of St. Elizabeth serves as the seat of the diocese.
The current Archbishop, Bernard Bober was appointed on June 4, 2010, and canonically took power of the archdiocese on July 10, 2010. He had formerly served as auxiliary bishop under Alojz Tkáč. On June 11, 2016, priest Marek Forgáč was appointed as the new auxiliary bishop by Pope Francis.
History
It was first created in 1804 under name Diocese of Košice as a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Eger.
Owing to strained relations between the Vatican and Czechoslovakia, the diocese remained vacant from 1925 to 1990, under apostolic administrators, except for the period between 1939 and 1948, when it was governed by a residential bishop following the return (1938–1945) of the territory to Hungarian rule (after the First Vienna Award).[2]
In 1977, the metropolitan was changed to the newly established ecclesiastical province of Trnava. On 31 March 1995, a new ecclesiastical province was created, changing the status of the diocese into archdiocese with the suffragans of Spiš and Rožňava.
St Charles Borromeo Seminary, the diocese's main seminary, was founded in 1994.
See also
Canonical status and jurisdiction
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Košice is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church.[3]
- Part of: Eastern Ecclesiastical Province
External links
References
- Back to citation "Štruktúra Katolíckej cirkvi" (PDF). Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- Back to citation Luboslav Hromjak, Pietro Gasparri, il governo cecoslovacco e la Slovacchia in Laura Pettinaroli e Massimiliano Valente, Il cardinale Pietro Gasparri, segretario di Stato (1914-1930), Heidelberg University Publishing, 2020, pp. 185-206. The essay explicitly discusses the government's "persecutory policy against the Church" (politica ecclesiastica di carattere persecutorio, p. 189).
- Back to citation Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Košice, official website
Bibliography
- Hišem, Cyril (2000). Dejiny Kňazského Seminára v Košiciach (1918–1950). Vydavateľstvo Michala Vaška. (in Slovak)
- Official site (in Slovak)
- Archdiocese of Košice at catholic-hierarchy.org
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Cassovia". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.