Diocese of Timişoara
Timisoaren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Timişoara, Romania
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Timisoara is a Latin Church diocese covering the Romanian Banat, established in 1930 by Pope Pius XI and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Bucharest. Its cathedral is dedicated to Saint George, and József-Csaba Pál has been bishop since 2018.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 June 1930
- Latin
- Timisoaren(sis)
- Patron
- Saint George
- Annuario code
- 001003227
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 108,379
- Population
- 1,345,576
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 8.1%
- Priests
- 95
- Catholics per priest
- 1,141
- Extent
- 24,755 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.4
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
- József Csaba Pál
- Born
- 5 December 1955
- Birthplace
- Frumoasa
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. George's Cathedral, Timisoara stands in Timişoara, 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 Bucharest
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bucharest.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Bucureşti, BucarestBucureşti, Bucarest
- Diocese of IaşiIaşi
- Diocese of Oradea MareOradea Mare
- Diocese of Oradea Mare, Gran Varadino, NagyváradOradea Mare
- Diocese of Satu Mare, SzatmárSatu Mare, Szatmár
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Pope Pius XI established the Diocese of Timișoara (Latin: Dioecesis Timisoarensis; Hungarian: Temesvári Római Katolikus Püspökség), a Latin diocese in Romania, on 5 June 1930. Roughly the same region had been served by the Diocese of Cenad (Csanád), created in 1030 by Stephen I of Hungary; when that see was divided in 1930, the Hungarian portion (now the Diocese of Szeged-Csanád) kept the old name, even though Cenad itself lies within the Diocese of Timișoara.
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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.