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Archdiocese of Armagh

Armachan(us)

Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Armagh, Ireland

The Archdiocese of Armagh is the metropolitan and primatial see of the Catholic Church in Ireland, traditionally founded by St. Patrick around 445 and raised to a metropolitan archdiocese at the Synod of Kells in 1152. Its archbishop holds the title Primate of All Ireland, and the see has been led by Archbishop Eamon Martin since 2014.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
445
Latin
Armachan(us)
Patron
St. Patrick
Annuario code
001000730

The see in figures

Catholics
242,860
Population
348,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
69.8%
Priests
138
Catholics per priest
1,760
Extent
3,472 km²
Catholics per km²
70

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

Archbishop
Eamon Martin
Born
30 October 1961
Birthplace
Derry

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. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh stands in Armagh, 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 Armagh

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Situated in Ireland, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh (Latin: "Archidioecesis Ardmachana"; Irish: "Ard-Deoise Ard Mhacha") is a Latin ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church. Its ordinary, the Archbishop of Armagh, is at once metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, making him the highest-ranking prelate in the Irish Catholic hierarchy.

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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.