Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Strasbourg

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Archdiocese of Strasbourg

Archidioecesis Argentoratensis o Argentinensis

Archidiocèse de Strasbourg
Immediately subject to the Holy See
Statistics
Area8,280 km2 (3,200 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2017)
1,860,000
1,400,000 (75.3%)
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established4th century (Diocese)
1 June 1988 (Archdiocese)
CathedralCathedral of Notre Dame in Strasbourg
Patron saintSaint Arbogast
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
ArchbishopPascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy
Auxiliary BishopsChristian Kratz
Apostolic AdministratorPhilippe Ballot
Bishops emeritus
Website
Official website
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The Archdiocese of Strasbourg (

archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France
, first mentioned in 343 AD.

It is one of nine[

which?] archbishoprics in France that have no suffragan dioceses, and it is the only one of those to be exempt to the Holy See in Rome and not within a metropolitan's ecclesiastical province. The most recent Archbishop was Luc Ravel
, who served between February 2017 and May 2023.

History

The Diocese of Strasbourg was first mentioned in 343, belonging to the

Carolingian times. Archeological diggings below the current Saint Stephen's Church, Strasbourg (Saint-Étienne) in 1948 and 1956 have unearthed the apse of a church dating back to the late 4th or early 5th century, considered the oldest church in Alsace. It is supposed that this was the first seat of the diocese.[1]
The diocese may thus have been founded around 300.

The bishop also was the ruler of an ecclesiastical principality (

Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg
.

Since the 15th century, the diocesan seat has been the

Diocese of Konstanz
, on 26 April 1808 it gained territory from the same and in 1815 lost territory to that Diocese of Konstanz.

In 1871 the bulk of the diocese became part of

exempt diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See instead of part of any ecclesiastical province. When the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State
was enacted, doing away with public-law religious corporations, this did not apply to the Strasbourg diocese which was then within Germany.

After World War I, Alsace along with the diocese was returned to France, but the status from the concordat has been preserved as part of the Local law in Alsace-Moselle.

The diocese was elevated to Archdiocese of Strasbourg on 1 June 1988 by

religious instruction
according to archdiocesan guidelines.

It enjoyed

papal visits from Pope John Paul II in October 1988 and Pope Francis
in November 2014.

On 27 May 2023, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of most recent Archbishop Luc Ravel.[2]

Cathedral and basilicas

The archiepiscopal cathedral seat is the Cathedral of Notre Dame (Our Lady) in Strasbourg, Grand Est, France, as mother church, a World Heritage Site.

It has four other

Minor Basilicas, two in each of the former Alsace region's departments
:

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,380,000 Catholics (74.9% of 1,843,000 total) on 8,280 km² in 767 parishes and 5 missions with 722 priests (517 diocesan, 205 religious), 80 deacons, 1,332 lay religious (282 brothers, 1,050 sisters) and 17 seminarians . As of 31 December 2003, the area of the archdiocese comprised a total of 1,713,416 inhabitants of which 75.9% (1,300,000) are Catholics, divided in 762 parishes covering an area of 8,280 km². Also, 619 diocese priests, 50 deacons, 288 ordained priests and 1,728 nuns belonged to the archdiocese.

Ordinaries

(Incomplete, first centuries unavailable)[3]

Main article:
Archbishop of Strasbourg
Suffragan bishops of Strasbourg
Archbishops of Strasbourg

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ Fouilles romaines sous l'église Saint-Étienne à Strasbourg (in French)
  2. ^ "Pope Francis accepts French archbishop's resignation". Duetsche Welle. 27 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Archdiocese of Strasbourg". GCatholic.
  4. ^ Archivum Historiae Pontificiae: Vol. 18 (in German). Vol. 18. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. 1980. p. 372.
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