Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana
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Diocese
A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a bishop. It is divided into parishes.An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or had importance due to size or historical significance...
of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
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in Slovenia
Slovenia
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. It was erected as the Diocese of Ljubljana by Pope Eugene IV
Pope Eugene IV
Pope Eugene IV , born Gabriele Condulmer, was pope from March 3, 1431, to his death.-Biography:He was born in Venice to a rich merchant family, a Correr on his mother's side. Condulmer entered the Order of Saint Augustine at the monastery of St. George in his native city...
on 6 December 1461 and was immediately subject to the Holy See
Holy See
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from its creation until erected as an archdiocese. Its territory corresponded with the Austrian crownland of Carniola
Carniola
Carniola was a historical region that comprised parts of what is now Slovenia. As part of Austria-Hungary, the region was a crown land officially known as the Duchy of Carniola until 1918. In 1849, the region was subdivided into Upper Carniola, Lower Carniola, and Inner Carniola...
. Prior to the formation of this diocese, its area had been part of the ecclesiastical territory of the Patriarch of Aquileia
Patriarch of Aquileia
The Patriarch of Aquileia was an office in the Roman Catholic Church. During the Middle Ages the Patriarchate of Aquileia was a temporal state in Northern Italy. The Patriarchate of Aquileia as a church office was suppressed in 1752....
since 811.
In 1952, a group of communists set auxiliary bishop Anton Vovk alight with petroleum, inflicting severe burns on him. The diocese was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese
Metropolitan bishop
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on 22 December 1961. Today it has two suffragan sees
Suffragan bishop
A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop. He or she may be assigned to an area which does not have a cathedral of its own.-Anglican Communion:...
, Koper (since 1977) and Novo Mesto
Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto is a diocese located in the city of Novo Mesto in the Ecclesiastical province of Ljubljana in Slovenia.-History:* April 7, 2006: Established as Diocese of Novo Mesto from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ljubljana...
(since 2006). It is the primatial
Primate (religion)
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see
Diocese
A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a bishop. It is divided into parishes.An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or had importance due to size or historical significance...
of Slovenia; one living former archbishop, Franc Rode, CM
Lazarists
Congregation of the Mission is a vowed order of priests and brothers associated with the Vincentian Family, a loose federation of organizations who claim St. Vincent de Paul as their founder or Patron...
, was promoted to a Curial office (Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
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) and made a Cardinal, demonstrating the importance of this archdiocese and its archbishops.
The archdiocese's motherchurch
Mother Church
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and thus seat of its archbishop is the Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Ljubljana; it also contains minor basilicas
Basilica
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in Brezje and Stična
Stična
Stična is a village in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica in central Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenian statistical region....
. The current Archbishop of Ljubljana, and thus Primate of Slovenia, is His Excellency
Excellency
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Anton Stres, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...
on 28 November 2009.
List of bishops and archbishops of Ljubljana
- Sigmund Lamberg (1463–1488)
- Krištof Ravbar (1488–1536)
- Franc Kacijanar (1536–1543)
- Urban Textor (Tkalec) (1543–1558)
- Peter Seebach (1558–1568)
- Konrad Adam Glušič (1571–1578)
- Baltazar Radlič (1579)
- Janez Tavčar (1580–1597)
- Tomaž Hren (1597–1630)
- Rinaldo Scarlichi (1630–1640)
- Otto Friedrich von Puchheim (1641–1664)
- Joseph Rabatta (1664–1683)
- Sigmund von Herberstein (1683–1701)
- Franz von Kuenburg (1701–1710)
- Franz Karl Kaunitz (1710–1717)
- Wilhelm von Leslie (1718–1727)
- Sigismund von SchrattenbachSigismund von SchrattenbachSigismund Graf von Schrattenbach was the Archbishop of Salzburg from 1753 to 1771. He was the son of Otto Heinrich, Graf von Schrattenbach, and Maria Theresa, Countess of Wildenstein, widowed Baroness Gall von Gallenstein.After studying theology, he was ordained a priest in 1723...
(1727–1742)
- Ernest Attems (1742–1757)
- Leopold Petazzi de Castel Nuovo (1760–1772)
- Karl Johann Herberstein (1772–1787)
- Michel Brigido (1787–1807)
- Anton Kavčič (1807–1814)
- Augustin Gruber (1815–1823)
- Anton Aloys WolfAnton Aloys WolfAnton Aloys Wolf was a Prince-Bishop of Laibach during the 19th Century....
(1824–1859) - Jernej Vidmar (1860–1875)
- Janez Zlatoust Pogačar (1875–1884)
- Jakob Missia (1884–1898)
- Anton Bonaventura Jeglič (1898–1930)
- Gregorij RožmanGregorij RožmanGregorij Rožman was a Slovenian Roman Catholic clergyman and theologian. Between 1930 and 1959, he served as bishop of the Diocese of Ljubljana. He is most famous for his controversial role during World War II...
(1930–1959) - Anton VovkAnton VovkArchbishop Anton Vovk was born in the village of Vrba in Upper Carniola in the same house where the poet France Prešeren had been born 100 years earlier . Vovk’s father Jožef Vovk and mother Marija née Debelak died when he was young...
(1959–1963) - Jože PogačnikJože PogačnikJože Pogačnik is a retired Slovenian film director and screenwriter.After studying film directing, Pogačnik first worked as a film critic, before becoming a prominent author of docmentary films in the 1960s, manly dealing with social issues...
(1964–1980) - Alojzij ŠuštarAlojzij ŠuštarAlojzij Šuštar was the Archbishop of Ljubljana from 1980 until 1997. He remained Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana after his retirement. He was born in Grmada at Trebnje and died in Ljubljana....
(1980–1997) - Franc Rode, CMLazaristsCongregation of the Mission is a vowed order of priests and brothers associated with the Vincentian Family, a loose federation of organizations who claim St. Vincent de Paul as their founder or Patron...
(1997–2004) - Alojz Uran (2004–2009)
- Anton Stres (2009 – present)
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See also
- Roman Catholicism in SloveniaRoman Catholicism in SloveniaThe Roman Catholic Church in Slovenia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....