Diocese of Roermond
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The Diocese of Roermond is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The diocese is one of seven Roman-Catholic dioceses suffragan to the Archdiocese of Utrecht. Re-established in 1853, the diocesan territory comprises those of the borders of the province Limburg.
Its Cathedral is the St. Christopher Cathedral in Roermond. The diocese has roughly 871,000 registered Roman-Catholics (about 77% of the population of Limburg). Roughly 7 percent of the population in the Diocese Roermond attends mass in the weekend (as per official Roman-Catholic (KASKI) data). The Roermond diocese is one out of two in the Netherlands that is in majority Roman-Catholic as per the most recent KASKI data.
Its main Pilgrimage sites are Kapel in het Zand and Valkenburg. The most beautiful churches are in Roermond, Kapel in het Zand, Wessem, Thorn, Valkenburg and Maastricht.
The dean of Roermond is responsible for the parishes in the city of Roermond and a few other municipalities in the diocese of Roermond.
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