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Diocese of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg

The Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg is a Latin Church diocese in Switzerland formed in 1821 by the merger of the sees of Lausanne and Geneva, renamed to add Fribourg in 1924. It is an exempt diocese immediately subject to the Holy See, with its seat at Fribourg Cathedral. The bishop since 2011 is Charles Morerod, O.P.

The see

Rank
Diocese immediately subject to the Holy See
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1821
Patron
Saint Nicholas
Annuario code
001001970

The see in figures

Catholics
717,000
Population
1,770,069
Catholic share
40.5%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
244
Catholics per priest
2,939
Extent
5,557 km²
Catholics per km²
129

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Charles Morerod
Born
28 October 1961
Birthplace
Riaz
Institute
FRATI PREDICATORI (DOMENICANI)

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Fribourg Cathedral stands in Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

In Switzerland, where every see answers directly to the Holy See rather than belonging to an ecclesiastical province, the Latin Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (Latin: Dioecesis Lausannensis, Genevensis et Friburgensis) holds exempt status. Its component sees once had metropolitan ties elsewhere: until 1801 the original diocese of Lausanne stood under the archdiocese of Besançon, while Geneva had been a suffragan of the archdiocese of Vienne.

What is kept by invitation

The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.

The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].