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The diocese was founded in 1870, and it became an archdiocese in 1988. The seat of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of Notre Dame in the city of Luxembourg, and since 2011 the archbishop is Jean-Claude Hollerich.
The archbishop of Luxembourg is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic archbishopric of Luxembourg. The position was created on 23 April 1988, when Luxembourg was promoted from a bishopric. The seat of the see is Notre-Dame Cathedral, in Luxembourg City.
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Notre-Dame Cathedral (Luxembourgish: Kathedral Notre-Dame, French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame, German: Kathedrale unserer lieben Frau) is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Luxembourg, located in Luxembourg City in southern Luxembourg. It was originally a Jesuit church, and its cornerstone was laid in 1613. It is the only cathedral in ...
Jean Hengen (23 November 1912 – 29 January 2005) [1] was a Luxembourgish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as Bishop of Luxembourg from 13 February 1971 until 21 December 1990, whereupon Luxembourg was created as an Archbishopric, and thereafter he served as Archbishop of Luxembourg.
Archdiocese of Leontopolis in Pamphylia (Ulupınar, Turkey) Archdiocese of Leucas (Lefkada, Greece) Archdiocese of Luxemburgum (Luxembourg City, Luxemburg) Archdiocese of Maronea (Maroneia, Greece) Archdiocese of Martyropolis (Silvan, Turkey) Archdiocese of Maximianopolis in Rhodope (Mosynopolis, Greece) Archdiocese of Melitene (Malatya, Turkey)
As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions sui juris ...
The history of Luxembourg properly began with the construction of Luxembourg Castle in the High Middle Ages. It was Siegfried I, count of Ardennes who traded some of his ancestral lands with the monks of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier in 963 for an ancient, supposedly Roman, fort named Lucilinburhuc, commonly translated as "little castle". [2]