Diocese of Limburg
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Diocese of Limburg Dioecesis Limburgensis Bistum Limburg |
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| Location | |
| Country | Germany |
| Ecclesiastical province | Cologne |
| Metropolitan | Limburg, Hesse |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 6,182 km2 (2,387 sq mi) |
| Population - Catholics |
693,230 (29.8%) |
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| Denomination | Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 16 August 1821 |
| Cathedral | St George's Cathedral |
| Patron saint | St. George |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Georg Bätzing |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Rainer Maria Woelki |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Thomas Löhr |
| Apostolic Administrator | Manfred Grothe |
| Vicar General | Wolfgang Rösch |
| Emeritus Bishops |
Franz Kamphaus Bishop Emeritus (1982-2007) Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst Bishop Emeritus (2008-2014) Gerhard Pieschl Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus (1977-2009) |
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The Diocese of Limburg (Latin: Dioecesis Limburgensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. It belongs to the ecclesiastical province Cologne (Archdiocese of Cologne).
Its territory encompasses parts of the States of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. Its cathedral church is St George's Cathedral Limburg an der Lahn. The diocese's largest church is Frankfurt Cathedral, St. Bartholomew.
From October 2013, the administrator of the diocese during the suspension of Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is Wolfgang Rösch. The Bishop later resigned. The Cathedral Chapter elected and on July 1, 2016, Pope Francis appointed, the Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier, Germany, Georg Bätzing, to serve as the next Bishop of the Diocese of Limburg, succeeding Bishop Tebartz-van Elst. He was consecrated by the Archbishop of Cologne Rainer Woelki on September 18, 2016.
At the end of 2008 the diocese had 2,386,000 inhabitants. About 28 per cent of them were Catholics.
The diocese is divided into multiple administrative districts. Each district is represented by a clerical dean.
The Diocese of Limburg was established in 1827, during the reorganization of Catholic diocese in the course of the secularization. It was initially established as a suffragan diocese of the ecclesiastical province Upper Rhine with its metropolitan seat in Freiburg im Breisgau. Its territory had before been under what is today the Diocese of Trier and Diocese of Mainz. The diocese, therefore, is a rather young diocese. Today it encompasses the former territory of the Duchy of Nassau, the city of Frankfurt am Main, landgraviate Hesse-Homburg, and the former county Biedenkopf. In 1929, it was subordinated to the ecclesiastical province Cologne, according to the so-called Prussian Concordat.
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