Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana
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Archdiocese of Ljubljana Archiodioecesis Labacensis Nadškofija Ljubljana |
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| Location | |
| Country | Slovenia |
| Statistics | |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 776,336 554,417 (71.4%) |
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| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 6 December 1461 |
| Cathedral | St. Nicholas's Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Stanislav Zore, OFM |
| Suffragans |
Koper Novo Mesto |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Anton Jamnik, Franc Šuštar |
| Emeritus Bishops |
Alojzij Uran, Archbishop Emeritus (2004-2009) Anton Stres, Archbishop Emeritus (2009-2013) |
| Website | |
| Website of the Archdiocese | |
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ljubljana (Slovene: Nadškofija Ljubljana, Latin: Archidioecesis Labacensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Slovenia.
The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Ljubljana; it also contains minor basilicas in Brezje and Stična. The See of Ljubljana had been vacant, its former archbishop was, until his 2013 resignation, Anton Stres, who was appointed Archbishop of Ljubljana, and thus Primate of Slovenia, by Pope Benedict XVI on 28 November 2009. On Saturday, 4 October 2014, Pope Francis appointed the Reverend Father P. Stane Zore, OFM, as Archbishop-elect of the Archdiocese of Ljubljana, who until then had been serving for a second time as Minister Provincial of his order and as Chairman of the Conference of Men and Women Religious in Slovenia (KORUS). He will be ordained and installed as Archbishop in the near future.
From 811, the territory of the Ljubljana Archdiocese was part of the ecclesiastical territory of the Patriarch of Aquileia. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, erected on 6 December 1461 the Diocese of Laibach, which was confirmed six months later, on 6 September 1462, by Pope Pius II. Several days later, it was taken from the jurisprudence of the Aquileia and directly subjected to the Holy See. On 3 March 1787, it became an archdiocese and a metropolis, which it remained until 1807, when it was for political reasons degraded to a common diocese.
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