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Diocese of Szeged–Csanád

Szegedien(sis)-Csanadien(sis)

The Diocese of Szeged-Csanád is a Latin Church diocese in southeastern Hungary, tracing its origin to the Diocese of Csanád founded in 1030. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Kecskemét with its seat in Szeged.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1030
Latin
Szegedien(sis)-Csanadien(sis)
Patron
Saint Gerard of Csanád
Annuario code
001003141

The see in figures

Catholics
363,500
Population
889,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
40.9%
Priests
95
Catholics per priest
3,826
Extent
10,851 km²
Catholics per km²
33

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
László Kiss-Rigó
Born
6 April 1955
Birthplace
Budapest

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

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Hungarians stands in Szeged–Csanád, 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.

The province of Kalocsa-Kecskemét

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Kecskemét.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Centered on the cities of Szeged and Csanád, the Diocese of Szeged-Csanád (Latin: Dioecesis Szegediensis-Csanadiensis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Kalocsa-Kecskemét in Hungary as a Latin Church diocese. Since 1930 its cathedral has been the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Hungarians in Szeged; before that, the see was St George's Cathedral in Timișoara, which after 1930 became the cathedral of the Diocese of Timișoara. Békéscsaba is home to the Co-Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua.

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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.