Catholic Church in Montenegro
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The Catholic Church in Montenegro (
There were 20,000 Catholics in
The Apostolic Nuncio to Montenegro and to Bosnia and Herzegovina is Archbishop Francis Chullikatt.
Organisation
Latin Church Catholics
Within Montenegro the
Eastern Catholics
There are very few Greek Catholics of Montenegro, and no diocese. The Greek Catholics are assigned to the pastoral care of the Latin Church clergy of the Catholic Church in Montenegro.[3]
Demographics
According to the 2011 official census, of the total 21,299 Catholics in Montenegro, there were:[4]
- 7,954 Albanians (37.34%)
- 5,667 Montenegrins (26.61%)
- 5,527 Croats (25.95%)
- 2,151 others (10.01%)
The highest concentration of Catholics is in the Diocese of Kotor, covering coastal areas long under Venetian influence and largely made up of Croat Catholics. The rest of Montenegro is covered by the Archdiocese of Bar, in which there were a total of 12,165 Catholics, mainly Albanian Catholics, in 2006, in the following settlements:
- Tuzi - 4, 510
- Podgorica - 1,738
- Bar - 1,610
- Ulcinj - 947
- Štoj - 491
- Bratica - 475
- Hoti- 440
- Koja - 404
- Sveti Đorđe - 251
- Trieshi- 249
- Gruda- 232
- Kolonza - 219
- Zupci - 180
- Cetinje - 165
- Gusinje - 80
- Klezna - 91
- Ljara - 41
- Nikšić - 30
- Šestan- 12
World Heritage Site
The Katedrala Svetog Trifuna is designated as a World Heritage Site.[5]
See also
- Religion in Montenegro
- Eastern Catholic Churches
- List of Catholic dioceses in Montenegro
- Eastern Orthodoxy in Montenegro
References
- ^ Catholics and Culture website, retrieved 2023-08-08
- ^ Diocese of Kotor: History (in Serbo-Croatian)
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 105 (2013), p. 187.
- ^ "Tabela CG5. Stanovništvo prema nacionalnoj odnosno etničkoj pripadnosti i vjeroispovijesti". monstat.org (in Montenegrin). Monstat. 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ G Catholic website
Sources
- Dragojlović, Dragoljub (1990). "Dyrrachium et les Évéchés de Doclea jusqu'a la fondation de l'Archevéche de Bar" (PDF). Balcanica (21): 201–209.
External links
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- Catholic Hierarchy website