Archbishop of Berlin

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Berlin was erected on 13 August 1930 by Pope Pius XI and was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese on 27 June 1994 by Pope John Paul II. As of 2004 the archdiocese has 377,000 Catholics out of the population of Berlin. This means that there is a little over 6% of Berlin is Roman Catholic. There is a total of 122 parishes in the archdiocese.

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The current Archbishop of Berlin is His Eminence Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky since 28 May 1989.


Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Germany
    Archdioceses Dioceses
    Bamberg Eichstätt | Speyer | Würzburg
    Berlin Dresden-Meissen | Görlitz
    Freiburg im Breisgau Mainz | Rottenburg-Stuttgart
    Hamburg Hildesheim | Osnabrück
    Cologne Aachen | Essen | Limburg | Münster | Trier
    Munich & Freising Augsburg | Passau | Regensburg
    Paderborn Erfurt | Fulda | Magdeburg
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