Archdiocese of Zadar

Archdiocese of Zadar Archidioecesis Iadrensis Zadarska nadbiskupija
Map of deaneries and parishes
Location
Country	Croatia
Metropolitan	Subjected directly to the Holy See
Statistics
Area	3,009 km2 (1,162 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	~164.310 ~151.215 (92.03%)
Parishes	119
Schools	2
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	• 3rd century (Diocese) • 1154 (Archdiocese) • 1828 (Dalmatian Metropolitanate) • 1932 (Lost status of Metropolitanate; annexed to Šibenik) • 1948 (Archdiocese declared again)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Anastasia
Saint	Anastasia of Sirmium
Secular priests	77
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Želimir Puljić
Vicar General	Josip Lenkić
Map
Archdiocese of Zadar
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zadar (Croatian: Zadarska nadbiskupija; Latin: Archidioecesis Iadrensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Croatia. The diocese was established in the 3rd century AD and was made an archdiocese by the Pope Anastasius IV in 1154. Today, it is not part of any ecclesiastical province of Croatia but is only Croatian Archdiocese subjected directly to the Holy See.

Zadar (modern Croatia) has been a Roman Catholic diocese in Dalmatia since AD 381 and, since 1146, an archdiocese. Its succession of bishops numbers over eighty without noteworthy interruption. Bishop Sabinianus is mentioned in the "Register" of Gregory the Great. In one of his letters Pope John VIII names St. Donatus as patron of Jadera, Zadar's former name. Archaeologists find in Zadar many traces of ecclesiastical sculpture with German characteristics dating from the migration of the Germanic tribes. Zadar was the capital of Byzantine Dalmatia, but an example of Carolingian architecture is also found there, indicating that Zadar may once have belonged to the Franks and possibly explaining a visit of Bishop Donatus to Charlemagne in Dietenhofen.