Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg, Bundesland. It covers the same territory of the former Kingdom of Wurttemberg.

Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

Dioecesis Rottenburgensis-Stutgardiensis

Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Location
Country Germany
Ecclesiastical provinceFreiburg
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Freiburg
Statistics
Area19,514 km2 (7,534 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2010)
5,064,000
1,921,236 (37.9%)
Parishes1,037
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established16 August 1821
CathedralSt. Martin's Cathedral, Rottenburg
Co-cathedralSt. Eberhard Co-Cathedral, Stuttgart
Patron saintMartin of Tours
Secular priests902
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopSede vacante
Metropolitan ArchbishopArchbishop of Freiburg
Auxiliary BishopsThomas Maria Renz, Gerhard Schneider, Matthäus Karrer (Auxiliary Bishop-elect), Johannes Kreidler (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus)[1]
Vicar GeneralClemens Stroppel
Bishops emeritusBernhard Rieger
Map
Website
drs.de

History edit

  • In 1803 a Vicar General for the "New" State of Wurttemberg was nominated by Prince Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg as an auxiliary bishop (Franz Karl Joseph Furst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingfurst, that consacreted the current Co-Cathedral in Stuttgart, later Bishop of Augsburg )
  • The Diocese of Rottenburg was established on 16 August 1821 through the papal bull De salute animarum, on territory split off from the suppressed Diocese of Konstanz. With the enthronement of the first bishop, Johann Baptist von Keller, on May 20, 1828, the formation of the diocese was complete.
  • On 18 January 1978, the bishopric was renamed to the current title Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.[2]

Major churches edit

 
St. Eberhard's Co-Cathedral, Stuttgart

Episcopal ordinaries edit

 
Bishop Gebhard Fürst 2004 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt

(all Roman Rite)[2]

Suffragan Bishops of Rottenburg edit

Suffragan Bishops of Rottenburg-Stuttgart edit

Statistics and extent edit

The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is located in the Württemberg part of the German State of Baden-Württemberg. As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,872,849 Catholics (37.0% of 5,068,000 total) on 19,500 km2 in 1,096 parishes and 40 missions with 1,016 priests (829 diocesan, 187 religious), 283 deacons, 3,368 lay religious (228 brothers, 3,140 sisters) and 26 seminarians.[2]

Deaneries edit

It comprises 45 deaneries :

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Rinunce e nomine". press.vatican.va.
  2. ^ a b c d "Diocese of Rottenburg–Stuttgart, Germany". GCatholic.

Sources and external links edit