Archbishop of Barcelona
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Archdiocese of Barcelona Archidioecesis Barcinonensis Archidiócesis de Barcelona (Spanish) Arxidiòcesi de Barcelona (Catalan) |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Ecclesiastical province | Barcelona |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 339 km2 (131 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 2,661,538 2,119,915 (79.6%) |
| Parishes | 214 |
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| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Cathedral | Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia (Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia) |
| Patron saint | Virgin of Mercy |
| Secular priests | 862 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Juan José Omella Omella |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Sebastián Taltavull Anglada |
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The Roman CatholicArchdiocese of Barcelona is a Latin rite Catholic metropolitan archbishopric in northeastern Spain's Catalonia region.
The cathedral archiepiscopal see is a Minor basilica: Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia, Barcelona. The archbishopric has nine more Minor basilicas : ...
The current Archbishop of Barcelona is Juan José Omella Omella, appointed by Pope Francis on 6 November 2015.
The ecclesiastical province of Barcelona includes the Metropolitan's own archbishopric and the following suffragan sees :
As per 2014, it pastorally served 2,116,479 Catholics (79.7% of 2,657,000 total) on 340 km² in 214 parishes and 153 missions with 826 priests (396 diocesan, 430 religious), 46 deacons, 3,092 lay religious (639 brothers, 2,453 sisters) and 19 seminarians .
While local tradition and catalogues date back the first bishop, San Eteri, considered a disciple of Saint James the Great, to the very first Apostles, historical evidence seems to be undisputed from the third century onwards, when bishop Pretextat attended the Council of Sardica in 343. During the Visigothic Kingdom, Barcelona became one of the fourteen dioceses of the ecclesiastic province of Tarragona.
Circa 450 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Egara, which it regained circa 700 at the suppression of that Diocese of Egara
After the Christian fall in 712, a long sede vacante was ended not before 850, when bishop Joan took office, and the diocese became subjugated to the Carolingian See of Narbonne.
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