Archdiocese of Rhodos

The see

Rank

Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See

Tradition

Latin Church

Erected

1928

Latin

Rhodien(sis)

Annuario code

001002745

The see in figures

Catholics

2,000

Population

150,000

Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds

1.3%

Priests

2

Catholics per priest

1,000

Extent

2,714 km²

Catholics per km²

0.7

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

The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.

The cathedral

St Francis of Assisi Cathedral, Rhodes stands in Rhodos, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

Directly exempt to the Holy See and belonging to no ecclesiastical province, the Archdiocese of Rhodes (Latin: Archidioecesis Rhodiensis) is a Latin Church territory of the Catholic Church in Greece. Over its history it has served at various times as a titular see and later as a metropolitan see. The archbishop's cathedra stands in St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral in the capital of the island of Rhodes, which shares the see's name. Two earlier cathedrals met different fates: Our Lady of the Castle became a mosque under Ottoman rule and now serves as a museum, while the former cathedral of St. John passed to use as a Greek Orthodox church.

Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.