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Members of the Catholic Church in Germany in December 2012 (ecclesiastical provinces) 28.5% of the total population is Catholic (23.9 million people as of December 2022). Only one of Germany's Bundesländer (federal states), the Saarland has a Catholic absolute majority: Catholicism is also the largest religious group in Bavaria , Rhineland ...
The Catholic Church in Germany comprises 7 ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into 20 dioceses and 7 archdioceses each headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
In contrast to the Protestant churches, the Catholic Church endured the Communist order relatively unscathed. In 1950, 13% of the population were Catholics (versus 85% Protestants). Although about 1.1 million citizens, half of East Germany's Catholic population, left the GDR, in 1989 there were still about one million Catholics, about 6% of the ...
This is an incomplete list of basilicas of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. A basilica is a church with certain privileges conferred on it by the Pope. Currently there are some 76 basilicas in Germany.
Category: Roman Catholic churches in Germany by state. ... Roman Catholic churches in Baden-Württemberg (1 C, 16 P) Roman Catholic churches in Bavaria (5 C, 37 P)
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St. Stephen's Cathedral (German: Dom St. Stephan) is a baroque church from 1688 in Passau, Germany, dedicated to Saint Stephen. [1] It is the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Passau and the main church of his diocese. Since 730, there have been many churches built on the site of the current cathedral.
12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Germany (1 C, 2 P) 13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Germany (1 C, 9 P) 14th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Germany (1 C, 11 P)