Roman Catholic Diocese of Iași

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.

In 1921 it gained territory from the

On 28 October 1993, it lost territory to establish the

Special churches

Its

Other former cathedrals are the Biserica de vizitarea Maicii Domnului, in Bacău, and the ruined Biserica de Maicii Domnului, in Baia.

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As of 2014[update], its pastorally served 232,132 Catholics (5.3% of 4,359,762 total) on 46,378 km² in 149 parishes, 420 priests (297 diocesan, 123 religious) with 704 lay religious (282 brothers, 422 sisters) and 125 seminarians.

The diocese covers the Romanian region of Moldavia—the counties of Suceava, Botoșani, Neamț, Iași, Bacău, Vaslui, Vrancea and Galați.

5.2% of the inhabitants are Catholic, with concentrations around

Episcopal ordinaries

Apostolic Vicars of Moldavia

all missionary members of the Latin congregation of

• Giovanni Filippo Paroni (1818.06.26 – 1825)
• Bonaventura Zabberoni (1825.07.19 – 1826.07.30),
  Helenopolis
  (1825.07.19 – death 1826.07.30)
• Aloisio Landi (? – death 1829.01.22)
  • Apostolic Administrator
    Jose Carlos Magni (1832–1838)
• Paolo Sardi (1843.04.07 – death 1848.11.09), Titular Bishop of Vera (1843.04.07 – 1848.11.09)
• Antonio de Stefano (1849.08.28 – death 1859.11.27), Titular Bishop of
  Benda
  (1849.08.28 – 1893.11.01)
• Giuseppe Salandari (1864.04.22 – death 1873.12.29)
• Antonio Maria Grasselli (1874.04.14 – 1874.12.22), Titular Bishop of
  Viterbo e Tuscania (Lazio, central Italy) (1911–1913.12.30), Titular Archbishop of Larissa
  , (1913.12.30 – 1919.02.01)
• Ludovico Marangoni (1874.12.22 – 1877.09.21), Titular Bishop of
  General Superior) of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (Conventual Franciscans) (1864–1872); later Bishop of Chioggia
  (Italy) (1877.09.21 – 1908.11.21)
• Fidelis Dehm (1877.12.31 – death 1880)

• Nicolae Iosif Camilli (1884.06.27 – 1894.05.06 see below), previously
  Constantia antea Tomi
  (1901.03.27 – 1904.08.30)
• Dominique Jacquet (1895.01.08 – 1904.02.25), also Metropolitan Archbishop of
  București
  (Bucharest, Romania) (1895–1895); later
• Nicolae Iosif Camilli (see above 1904.08.30 – 1916.01.17), now styled Archbishop-Bishop of Iaşi (Romania) (1904.08.30 – 1916.01.17)
• Alexandru Theodor Cisar (1920.04.22 – 1924.12.12), later Metropolitan Archbishop of București (Romania) (1924.12.12 – death 1954.01.07)
• Mihai Robu (1925.05.07 – death 1944.09.27)
• Auxiliary Bishop
  (1947.10.30 – 1950.05.25)
• Blessed Bishop
  București
  (Bucharest, Romania) (1948–1949).
• Petru Gherghel (1990.03.14 – present)

Sources and external links

• GigaCatholic with incumbent biography links
• (in Romanian) Official site of the diocese
• PROFILE, newadvent.org. Accessed 23 February 2024.

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