Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Rottenburgen(sis)-Stutgardien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is a Latin Church diocese covering the Württemberg region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, established in 1821 and renamed to its current title in 1978. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Freiburg, and Klaus Krämer has been bishop since 2 October 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1821
- Latin
- Rottenburgen(sis)-Stutgardien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Martin of Tours
- Annuario code
- 001002773
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,900,000
- Population
- 5,064,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 37.5%
- Priests
- 902
- Catholics per priest
- 2,106
- Extent
- 19,514 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 97
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Klaus Krämer
- Born
- 14 January 1964
- Birthplace
- Stuttgart
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Martin's Cathedral, Rottenburg stands in Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is St. Eberhard Co-Cathedral, Stuttgart.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Freiburg
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Freiburg.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of MainzMainz
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Coextensive with the territory of the former Kingdom of Wurttemberg, the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is a Latin Church see of the Catholic Church in Germany, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Freiburg in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.