Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising information
Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany
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Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
Archidioecesis Monacensis et Frisingensis
Erzbistum München und Freising
Frauenkirche, Munich
Coat of arms
Location
Country
Germany
Ecclesiastical province
Munich and Freising
Statistics
Area
11,998 km2 (4,632 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics
(as of 2022) 3,855,000 1,499,000 (38.9%)
Parishes
747
Information
Denomination
Catholic
Sui iuris church
Latin Church
Rite
Roman Rite
Established
739
Cathedral
Frauenkirche
Co-cathedral
Freising Cathedral
Patron saint
St. Corbinian
Current leadership
Pope
Francis
Archbishop
Reinhard Marx Archbishop of Munich and Freising
Auxiliary Bishops
Wolfgang Bischof, Rupert zu Stolberg-Stolberg
Bishops emeritus
Friedrich Wetter, Bernhard Haßlberger
Map
Website
erzbistum-muenchen-und-freising.de
Freising CathedralThe Freising Cathedral's pipe organPalais Holnstein, the Archbishop's residence
The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (German: Erzbistum München und Freising, Latin: Archidioecesis Monacensis et Frisingensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany.[1][2] It is governed by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, who administers the see from the co-cathedral in Munich, the Frauenkirche. The other, much older co-cathedral is Freising Cathedral.
The see was canonically erected in about 739 by Saint Boniface as the Diocese of Freising, and later became a prince-bishopric. The diocese was dissolved in 1803 following the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, although a titular bishop ruled until April 1, 1818, when Pope Pius VII elevated the diocese to an archdiocese with its new seat in Munich, rather than Freising.
The archdiocese is divided into forty deaneries with 758 parishes. Its suffragan bishops are the Bishop of Augsburg, the Bishop of Passau, and the Bishop of Regensburg.
The most famous archbishop was Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected as Pope Benedict XVI.
The residence of the Archbishops of Munich and Freising is the Palais Holnstein in Munich.
^"Archdiocese of München und Freising {Munich}" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
^"Metropolitan Archdiocese of München und Freising" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
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