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The archdiocese's mother church and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (Saint Nicholas's or Monaco Cathedral). Dominique-Marie David was appointed Archbishop of Monaco by Pope Francis on 21 January 2020.
The country forms a single archdiocese: the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monaco, which is part of the Catholic Church in France since the beginning of its history. Per the Constitution of Monaco (Art. 9 [1]) Catholicism is the official church of Monaco, and is the majority religion; [2] religious freedom is also guaranteed by the constitution ...
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 following is a current list of Catholic archdioceses ordered by continent and country (for the Latin Church) and by liturgical rite (for the Eastern Catholic Churches).
The Roman Catholic church refers to Monaco as the Principality and Diocese of Monaco. Catholicism is the state religion and the majority religion of Monaco and the boundaries of the political principality are coterminous with that of the Catholic diocese. For further information, please see: Catholic Church in Monaco; Roman Catholic Archdiocese ...
The first diocese, titled Gardar, was officially established in 1124, and Greenland had the first known churches in the new world. [7] In 1152 the diocese of Gardar was made a suffragan to the new Archdiocese of Nidaros in Norway. [8] At the height of the settlement's extent, there were five thousand Norse Catholics in two settlements. [9]
Altarpiece of St Nicolas - Ludovico Brea, 1500 Interior of the Cathedral of Monaco The Cathedral of Our Immaculate Lady (Latin: Cathedralis Templum de Nostra Domina Immaculata, French: Cathédrale de Notre-Dame-Immaculée), formerly called the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas (demolished in 1874), [1] or informally the Cathedral of Monaco (French: Cathédrale de Monaco), is the Roman Catholic ...
The Diocese of Copenhagen is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church named after its episcopal see, the Danish national capital, Copenhagen and covers all Denmark. The diocese also covers two Danish overseas possessions, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. It is estimated that 36,000 (0.7%) out of the 5,516,597 ...