Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bratislava

Archdiocese of Bratislava

*Dioecesis Bratislaviensis*

Arcibiskupstvo Bratislava
Archdiocese of Bratislava; Dioecesis Bratislaviensis; Arcibiskupstvo Bratislava
	St. Martin's Cathedral
	Coat of arms
Location
Country	Slovakia
Territory	Bratislava Region, parts of the Trnava Region
Metropolitan	Bratislava
Statistics
Area	3,759 km2 (1,451 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2012); 795,649; 486,373 (61.1%)
Parishes	124
Churches	206
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	2008
Cathedral	St. Martin's Cathedral
Patron saint	St Martin of Tours
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Stanislav Zvolenský
Auxiliary Bishops	Jozef Haľko
Vicar General	Jozef Haľko ; Daniel Ižold
Map
	; Map of the Archdiocese

The Archdiocese of Bratislava (Slovak: Bratislavská arcidiecéza, Latin: Archidioecesis Bratislaviensis) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in western Slovakia including Bratislava and the western Trnava regions. It has its seat in Bratislava. The current archbishop is Stanislav Zvolenský and auxiliary bishop is Jozef Haľko.

History[edit]

It was first created as Apostolic Administration of Trnava on 29 May 1922, subordinate to the Archdiocese of Esztergom. On the order of Pope Paul VI on 30 December 1977, it was separated from the former, elevated to the status of diocese and renamed to the Archdiocese of Trnava, and it had at first suffragans of Nitra, Banská Bystrica, Rožňava, Košice and Spiš. On 31 March 1995, the archdiocese was renamed to Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava, and since then it had only suffragans of Banská Bystrica and Nitra. Its territory covered Bratislava, Trnava, Nitra (except the city of Nitra and the strip connecting it with the main part of the Diocese of Nitra), small part of the Trenčín and south-western part of the Banská Bystrica regions. As of 2004, it covered an area of approximately 14,000 km² with a population of 1,930,000 people of which around 70% were of Catholic faith.^[1]

On 14 February 2008, the archdiocese was split between several dioceses. It was renamed from Bratislava-Trnava into Archdiocese of Bratislava and the seat moved from Trnava to Bratislava, which became the seat of the Slovak church. Trnava became seat of the newly created Archdiocese of Trnava, which however still belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bratislava as its suffragan. Other parts of the former diocese have been split between the dioceses of Nitra and Banská Bystrica.^[2]