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Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège

Diocese of Liège
Dioecesis Leodiensis
Diocèse de Liège (French)
Bistum Lüttich (German)
Bisdom Luik (Dutch)
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Location
Country Belgium
Ecclesiastical province Mechelen-Brussels
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels
Statistics
Area 3,862 km2 (1,491 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2013)
1,054,000
721,000 (68.4%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral in Liège
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Jean-Pierre Delville
Metropolitan Archbishop Jozef De Kesel
Emeritus Bishops Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau, Bishop Emeritus (1986-2001)
Aloysius Jousten, Bishop Emeritus (2001-2013)
Map
The Diocese of Liège, coextensive with the Province of Liège
The Diocese of Liège, coextensive with the Province of Liège
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège (Latin: Dioecesis Leodiensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Belgium. The diocese was erected in the 4th century, and has a long and complicated history. Currently the diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. Its modern version covers the same territory as the Belgian province of Liège, but it was historically much larger.

The original diocese was the church equivalent of the Civitas Tungrorum, the capital of which was Tongeren, northwest of Liège, and its borders were probably approximately the same.

The bishopric of Tongeren originally formed part of the dioceses of Trier and Cologne. After the first half of the fourth century, the bishopric of Tongeren received autonomous organization. In late antiquity, the centre of administration and religion in the area moved first to Maastricht, and then to Liège.

The boundaries were formed, to the North, by the diocese of Utrecht; to the East, Cologne; to the South, the dioceses of Trier and Reims; to the West, that of Cambrai. Thus the diocese of Tongeren extended from France, in the neighbourhood of Chimay, to Stavelot, Aachen, Gladbach, and Venlo, and from the banks of the Semois as far as Ekeren, near Antwerp, to the middle of the Isle of Tholen and beyond Moerdijk, so that it included both Romance and Germanic populations. The boundaries remained virtually unchanged until 1559.


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