Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm Dioecesis Holmiensis Stockholms katolska stift |
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| Location | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Metropolitan | Immediately Subject to the Holy See |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 450,000 km2 (170,000 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2014) 9,340,000 106,873 (1.1%) |
| Parishes | 44 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 1953 |
| Cathedral | |
| Secular priests | 158 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Anders Arborelius |
| Website | |
| www.katolskakyrkan.se/1/1.0.1.0/107/2/ | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm (Latin: Dioecesis Holmiensis; Swedish: Stockholms katolska stift) is an exempt Latin Catholic ecclesiastical bishopric in Sweden and the only Roman Catholic diocese established in Sweden since the Protestant Reformation.
Its cathedral is Saint Erik Katolska Domkyrkoförsamlingen, in Sweden's capital city, . The former Catholic cathedrals in Linköping, Lund, Skara, Strängnäs, Uppsala (archiepiscopal), Västerås and Växjö have all been turned into Lutheran churches.
The diocese of Stockholm, which belongs to no ecclesiastical province but forms an episcopal conference with its Nordic neighbours, includes 42 parishes and covers the entire country of Sweden.
Between 1521 and 1550 the episcopates of the last Roman Catholic bishops in Sweden and Finland ended. Thereafter Lutheranism prevailed in Sweden-Finland as well as in Danish Scania, which later became part of Sweden.
In 1582 the stray Catholics in Sweden and elsewhere in Northern Europe were placed under the jurisdiction of a papal nuncio in Cologne. The Congregation de propaganda fide, on its establishment in 1622, took charge of the vast missionary field, which – at its third session – it divided among the nuncio of Brussels (for the Catholics in Denmark and Norway), the nuncio at Cologne (much of Northern Germany) and the nuncio to Poland (Sweden-Finland, and Mecklenburg).
In 1688 Sweden became part of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Nordic Missions. The German Paderborn bishops functioned as administrators of the apostolic vicariate. When a new Catholic missionary jurisdiction was established, it was not at any of the ancient episcopal sees but an Apostolic prefecture of Sweden in 1781, created out of parts of the Nordic Missions comprising then Sweden and Finland.
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