Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm

Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm Dioecesis Holmiensis Stockholms katolska stift
Location
Country	Sweden
Metropolitan	Immediately Subject to the Holy See
Coordinates	59°18′50″N 18°04′21″E / 59.31389°N 18.07250°E / 59.31389; 18.07250Coordinates: 59°18′50″N 18°04′21″E / 59.31389°N 18.07250°E / 59.31389; 18.07250
Statistics
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 9,340,000 141,306 (1.5%)
Congregations	43[1]
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Established	1953[1]
Cathedral	Saint Eric's Cathedral
Secular priests	158[1]
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Anders Arborelius
Website
www.katolskakyrkan.se/1/1.0.1.0/107/2/

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm (Latin: Dioecesis Holmiensis; Swedish: Stockholms katolska stift) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Sweden; its seat is Stockholm. It is the only Roman Catholic diocese established in Sweden since the Protestant Reformation.

History

Between 1521 and 1550 the episcopates of the last Roman Catholic bishops in Sweden and Finland ended.^[2] Thereafter Lutheranism prevailed in Sweden-Finland as well as in Danish Scania, which later became part of Sweden.

In 1582 the stray Catholics in Sweden and elsewhere in Northern Europe were placed under the jurisdiction of a papal nuncio in Cologne. The Congregation de propaganda fide, on its establishment in 1622, took charge of the vast missionary field, which - at its third session - it divided among the nuncio of Brussels (for the Catholics in Denmark and Norway), the nuncio at Cologne (much of Northern Germany) and the nuncio to Poland (Sweden-Finland,and Mecklenburg).

In 1688 Sweden became part of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Nordic Missions. The Paderborn bishops functioned as administrators of the apostolic vicariate. When a new Catholic missionary jurisdiction was established, it was not at any of the ancient episcopal sees but an apostolic prefecture in 1781, created out of parts of the Nordic Missions comprising then Sweden and Finland. On 23 September 1783 the apostolic prefecture was promoted to the Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden, seated in the Swedish capital Stockholm.

The Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden also included Finland between 1783 and 1809 (then passed to Mohilev Archdiocese), the southern areas of Norway between 1834 and 1868 (thereafter Apostolic Prefecture of Norway), whereas Norway north of the polar circle formed part of Sweden vicariate from 1834 to 1855, then becoming the Apostolic Prefecture of the North Pole. On 29 June 1953 the Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden became a separate Roman Catholic diocese named after Stockholm, when the same status was given in Norway to Oslo. The diocese of Stockholm includes 42 parishes and covers the entire country of Sweden.

List of ordinaries

1. Nicolaus Oster (1783–1790)
2. Rafael d'Ossery (1790–1795)
3. Paolo Moretti (1795–1804)
4. Jean Baptiste Gridaine (1805–1833)
5. Jacob Laurentius Studach (1833–1873)
6. Johan Georg Huber (1874–1886)
7. Albert Bitter (1886–1922)
8. Johannes Erik Müller (1923–1957)
9. Ansgar Nelson (1957–1962)
10. John E. Taylor (1962–1976)
11. Hubertus Brandenburg (1978–1998)
12. Anders Arborelius (1998–present)

See also

List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Europe

References

External links

• Official website
• Diocese of Stockholm at the Catholic-Hierarchy.org website.

Catholic Church Organizations, papacy, teachings and liturgical traditions History Jesus Twelve Apostles Early Christianity History of the papacy Ecumenical Councils Missions Great Schism of East Crusades Great Schism of West Protestant Reformation Counter-Reformation Catholic Church by country Vatican City index Hierarchy Pope Cardinals Patriarchs Major Archbishops Primates Metropolitans Archbishops Diocesan Bishops Coadjutor Bishops Auxiliary Bishops Titular Bishops Bishops Emeriti Theology Body and Soul Divine Grace Dogma One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church Original sin Salvation Sermon on the Mount The Ten Commandments Trinity Worship Sacraments Anointing of the Sick Baptism Confirmation Eucharist Holy Orders Matrimony Penance Mariology Roman Catholic Mariology Assumption History of Mariology Immaculate Conception Mariology of the popes Mariology of the saints Mother of God Perpetual Virginity Veneration Doctors of the Church Gregory the Great Ambrose Augustine of Hippo Jerome John Chrysostom Basil of Caesarea Gregory of Nazianzus Athanasius of Alexandria Cyril of Alexandria Cyril of Jerusalem John of Damascus Bede the Venerable Ephrem the Syrian Thomas Aquinas Bonaventure Anselm of Canterbury Isidore of Seville Peter Chrysologus Leo the Great Peter Damian Bernard of Clairvaux Hilary of Poitiers Alphonsus Liguori Francis de Sales Peter Canisius John of the Cross Robert Bellarmine Albertus Magnus Anthony of Padua Lawrence of Brindisi Teresa of Ávila Catherine of Siena Thérèse of Lisieux John of Ávila Hildegard of Bingen Gregory of Narek Pope Francis Conclave Inauguration Theology Canonizations Visits Preceding popes Pope Benedict XVI Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul I Pope Paul VI Pope John XXIII Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XI Pope Benedict XV Pope Pius X Pope Leo XIII Religious institutes and similar Assumptionists Augustinians Benedictines Capuchin Order Carmelites Carthusians Congregations of Holy Cross Dominican Order Franciscan orders Jesuits Oratory of Saint Philip Neri Vatican II Definition of the Church Dei verbum Gaudium et spes Lumen gentium Nostra aetate Sacrosanctum Concilium Particular Churches and liturgical rites Alexandrian Coptic Ethiopic Eritrean Ethiopian Antiochian Maronite Syriac Syro-Malankara Armenian Armenian Byzantine Albanian Belarusian Bulgarian Croatian Greek Hungarian Italo-Albanian Macedonian Melkite Romanian Russian Ruthenian Slovak Ukrainian East Syrian Chaldean Syro-Malabar Latin Roman Anglican Use Sarum Ambrosian Mozarabic Catholicism portal Pope portal