Diocese of Magdeburg

Diocese of Magdeburg Dioecesis Magdeburgensis
Cathedral of St. Sebastian, Magdeburg
Location
Country	Germany
Territory	Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
Ecclesiastical province	Paderborn
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Paderborn
Statistics
Area	23,000 km2 (8,900 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 2,723,000 120,000 (4.4%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	27 June 1994
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Sebastian
Patron saint	St. Norbert of Xanten
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Gerhard Feige Bishop of Magdeburg
Metropolitan Archbishop	Hans-Josef Becker Archbishop of Paderborn
Emeritus Bishops	Leopold Nowak
Map
Website
bistum-magdeburg.de

The Diocese of Magdeburg is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church, located in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Its seat is Magdeburg; it is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Paderborn.

The Diocese was erected out of Paderborn territories in 1994. Its history dates back to the medieval Archbishopric of Magdeburg established in 968 AD.

At the 967 synod of Ravenna, Emperor Otto I obtained the consent of Pope John XIII to elevate Magdeburg to the see of an archbishop. The next year, against the valiant resistance by the Archbishop of Mainz and the Halberstadt bishop, Otto created the new archbishopric dedicated to Saint Maurice. It then headed an ecclesiastical province comprising the dioceses of Brandenburg, Havelberg, Zeitz, Merseburg, and Meissen, all located in the Saxon Eastern March. The first metropolitan was Archbishop Adalbert of Magdeburg (c. 910 - 981), a missionary to the Polabian Slavs, who also held the title of Primas Germaniae.