Diocese of Ispahan
Hispahanen(sis) Armenorum
Suffragan eparchy · Armenian Catholic Church · Ispahan, Iran
Ispahan was the Latin Church archdiocese for Iran, founded by Dominican friars in 1629. On 8 January 2021 Pope Francis renamed it the Archdiocese of Tehran-Isfahan of the Latins, so Ispahan and Tehran-Isfahan are the same see under different names. Its ordinary is Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv., appointed in 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Armenian Catholic Church
- Erected
- 30 April 1850
- Latin
- Hispahanen(sis) Armenorum
- Annuario code
- 001001683
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 150
- Extent
- 1,628,771 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Dominique Mathieu
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 the Consolata, Tehran stands in Ispahan, 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
Latin Catholics in Iran fall under the Archdiocese of Tehran-Isfahan of the Latins (Latin: Archidioecesis Teheranensis-Hispahanensis Latinorum; Persian: اسقفنشین کاتولیک رومی تهران-اصفهان, romanized: Ōsghof-neshin Kātolik Romi Tehrān-Esfahān). On 8 January 2021 Pope Francis renamed the jurisdiction, previously the Archdiocese of Isfahan of the Latins. Apart from a small number of Latin Rite locals, most Catholics in Iran are foreigners living in the country; the majority belong to the Chaldean Catholic Church, and a small Armenian Catholic diocese also exists.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Armenian Catholic Bishopric, Hafez Avenue, Ghazali Street 29, Tehran, Iran
- Telephone
- [021]667.07.204; fax 667.00.621
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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.