The Archdiocese of Maribor ( Sloven. Nadškofija Maribor , Latin: Archidioecesis Mariborensis ) is the Catholic archdiocese of the Latin rite in Slovenia . Historically successive to the diocese of Lavant . The center of the archdiocese is the city of Maribor .
| Archdiocese of Maribor | |
|---|---|
| sloven. Nadškofija Maribor lat Archidioecesis mariborensis | |
| Latin rite | |
| Main city | Maribor |
| A country |  Slovenia |
| Founding date | March 5, 1962 |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St. John the Baptist |
| Diocese Suffragans | Diocese of Celje Diocese of Murska Sobota |
| Parishes | 290 |
| Diocese area | 7398 km² |
| Diocese population | 826 229 people. |
| The number of Catholics | 384 people. |
| Catholic share | 85.3% |
| Site | www.slomsek.net |
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History
In 1212, Salzburg Archbishop Eberhard II founded the Augustinian Abbey in eastern Carinthia, in the valley of the Lavant River, from 1228 it became the center of the Lavant Diocese . The residence of the bishops was a small city of St. Andra . The new diocese in territorial terms was small and included only a few parishes in eastern Carinthia and southern Styria . Bishops Lavant submitted to the archbishops of Salzburg, but already in the XIV century received a fairly wide degree of autonomy. In the 16th century, the bishops of Lavant periodically participated as territorial princes in the meetings of the Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire , but later, under pressure from the Hapsburgs and Salzburg, they lost the status of a sovereign principality. The territory of the diocese expanded slightly at the end of the 18th century , incorporating a part of the lower Tistirian lands ( Celje ).
In 1857, the department of bishops Lavant was transferred to Maribor , and from 1859 Lavant became the suffragan of the Metropolis Gurk . After the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (the future Yugoslavia ) in 1918, the territory of the episcopacy became part of this state.
On March 5, 1962, the diocese changed its name from the diocese of Lavant to the diocese of Maribor and was reassigned to the archdiocese of Ljubljana . On April 7, 2006, the diocese of Maribor was elevated to the status of an archdiocese, and two newly formed dioceses, Tsele and Murska Sobots, were subordinated to it.
Current State
According to data for 2004, there were 704 thousand Catholics in the archdiocese (85.3% of the population), 290 parishes, 404 priests (93 of them were hieromonks), 202 monks, 134 nuns, 4 permanent deacons [1] . The Cathedral of the Diocese is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Maribor. Two more temples of the diocese have the honorable status of “small basil”: the Basilica of Mary - Mother of Mercy in Maribor and the Basilica of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Petrovcha .
From April 7, 2006 to February 3, 2011, the Archdiocese was headed by Archbishop Franz Kramberger , and from February 3, 2011 to July 31, 2013 [2] - Marian Turnshek .
The archdiocese of Maribor is a metropolitan , two eparchies are subordinate to it: Tsele and Murska Sobota .
Ordinaries of the Archdiocese
- Maximilian Drezhnik (06/15/1960 - 05/13/1978);
- Franz Kramberger (November 6, 1980 - February 3, 2011);
- Marian Turnshek (February 3, 2011 - July 31, 2013).
Notes
- ↑ Archdiocese statistics at catholic-hierarchy.org
- ↑ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo di Maribor (Slovenia) (not available link)
See also
- Lavant
- Catholicism in Slovenia