Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda

Diocese of Breda Dioecesis Bredana Bisdom Breda
Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	H. Antonius van Padua, Breda
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen
Metropolitan Archbishop	Cardinal Wim Eijk
Map
Location of the Diocese of Breda in the Netherlands
Website
www.bisdombreda.nl

The Diocese of Breda (

.

Description

Until 1801 this territory was part of the

in 1803.

The diocese was erected on March 14, 1853, with Johannes van Hooydonk being made its first bishop. The current bishop is Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen. The current cathedral is Saint Anthony of Padua (in Dutch: H. Antonius van Padua) located in the center of Breda.

Its canonical territory consists of the province of Zeeland and part of the province of North Brabant and is subdivided into 112 parishes.

Former Bishops of the Diocese are:

• Johannes van Hooydonk (1853 – 1867)
• Johannes van Genk (1868 – 1874)
• Henricus van Beek (1874-1884)
• Petrus Leyten (1885 – 1914)
• Pieter Hopmans (1914 – 1951)
• Jozef Baeten (1951 – 1961)
• Gerardus de Vet (1962 – 1967)
• Hubertus Ernst (1967 – 1992)
• Martinus Petrus Maria Muskens (1992 – 2007)
• Hans van den Hende (2007 - 2011)
• Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen (2011–present)

The Diocese numbers 136 secular and 159 religious priests and comprises 356 male and 1080 female religious. The number of church goers is nearly 25,000 or 2.2% of the population.

During the sixties of the twentieth century, the relatively strong

have taken place in North Brabant.

In western North Brabant (

See also

• Catholic Church in the Netherlands
• Wikipedia page in Dutch about Saint Anthony of Padua Cathedral

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda.

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy ^{[self-published]}
• http://www.ru.nl/kaski/virtuele_map/publicaties/ rapportnr. 550
• (in Dutch)Kerncijfers 2005 uit de kerkelijke statistiek van het Rooms-Katholiek Kerkgenootschap in Nederland

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