Roman Catholic Diocese of Diocese of Iaşi

Diocese of Iaşi Dioecesis Iasensis Episcopia de Iaşi
Our Lady Queen of Iași Cathedral
Location
Country	Romania
Ecclesiastical province	Bucharest
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Bucharest
Statistics
Area	46,378 km2 (17,907 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 4,272,000 234,211 (5.5%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	27 June 1884
Cathedral	Our Lady Queen of Iași Cathedral, Iaşi
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Petru Gherghel
Metropolitan Archbishop	Ioan Robu
Auxiliary Bishops	Aurel Percă
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Iaşi (or Jászvásár in Magyar) is a Latin Rite suffragan of the Metropolitan Bucharest Archdiocese, in Romanian Moldavia.

Its bishop since 1990 has been Petru Gherghel, previously Apostolic Administrator since 1978. Auxiliary Bishop since 1999 is Aurel Percă, Titular Bishop of Mauriana.

It was established in 1818 as Apostolic Vicariate of Moldavia (a pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction; exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, not part of an ecclesiastical province, but entitled to a titular bishop), on territory split off from the suppressed Diocese of Bacău, which had originally been set up at Siret by Pope Urban V in 1370, due to work done by Franciscans and Dominicans; its seat was transferred to Bacău at the beginning of the 15th century. Abandoned in 1497 due to Muslim persecutions, the See of Bacău was re-established in 1611, and had a succession of twenty prelates until 1789, when it was suppressed. The Catholics of Moldavia were then placed under the spiritual direction of Apostolic prefects, generally chosen from the Conventuals in charge of the mission.

The Apostolic Vicariate of Moldavia was promoted on 27 June 1884 by Pope Leo XIII to Diocese of Iaşi (Jászvásár in Hungarian) covering Romanian Moldavia, with Iaşi as residence.

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