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.
[edit] Incumbents
The current Archbishop of Berlin is His Eminence Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky since 28 May 1989.
- Christian Schreiber
- Nikolaus Bares
- Conrad Graf von Preysing Lichtenegg-Moos
- Wilhelm Weskamm
- Julius Döpfner
- Alfred Bengsch
- Joachim Meisner - became Archbishop of Cologne in 1988
- Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky
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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Roman Catholic archdioceses and dioceses in Germany |
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(Archdioceses in bold) Aachen | Augsburg | Bamberg | Berlin | Cologne | Dresden-Meissen | Eichstätt | Erfurt | Essen | Freiburg | Fulda | Görlitz | Hamburg | Hildesheim | Limburg | Magdeburg | Mainz | Munich and Freising | Münster | Osnabrück | Paderborn | Passau | Regensburg | Rottenburg-Stuttgart | Speyer | Trier | Würzburg |