Diocese of Groningen–Leeuwarden
Groningen(sis)-Leovardien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Groningen–Leeuwarden, Netherlands
The Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden is a Latin Church diocese covering the northern Dutch provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe, restored in 1955 and renamed in 2005. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, its cathedral is St. Joseph Cathedral in Groningen, with Bishop Ronald Cornelissen appointed in 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 May 1559
- Latin
- Groningen(sis)-Leovardien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Boniface
- Annuario code
- 001001528
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 102,150
- Population
- 1,944,920
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 5.3%
- Priests
- 26
- Catholics per priest
- 3,929
- Extent
- 9,205 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 11
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
- Ronald Cornelissen
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. Joseph Cathedral stands in Groningen–Leeuwarden, 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 Utrecht
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Utrecht.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BredaBreda
- Diocese of Haarlem–AmsterdamHaarlem–Amsterdam
- Diocese of RoermondRoermond
- Diocese of RotterdamRotterdam
- Archdiocese of UtrechtUtrecht
- Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch’s-Hertogenbosch
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The northern Netherlands, comprising the provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe together with the Noordoostpolder, a part of the province of Flevoland, falls to the Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden (Dutch: Bisdom Groningen-Leeuwarden; Latin: Dioecesis Groningensis-Leovardiensis). It is a suffragan Latin see within the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht, which covers all the Netherlands.
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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.