Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Rottenburgen(sis)-Stutgardien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is a Latin Church diocese covering the Württemberg region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, established in 1821 and renamed to its current title in 1978. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Freiburg, and Klaus Krämer has been bishop since 2 October 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1821
- Latin
- Rottenburgen(sis)-Stutgardien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Martin of Tours
- Annuario code
- 001002773
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,900,000
- Population
- 5,064,000
- Catholic share
- 37.5%
- Priests
- 902
- Catholics per priest
- 2,106
- Extent
- 19,514 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 97
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Klaus Krämer
- Born
- 14 January 1964
- Birthplace
- Stuttgart
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
St. Martin's Cathedral, Rottenburg stands in Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is St. Eberhard Co-Cathedral, Stuttgart.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Freiburg
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Freiburg.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of MainzMainz
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Coextensive with the territory of the former Kingdom of Wurttemberg, the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is a Latin Church see of the Catholic Church in Germany, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Freiburg in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg.
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.
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].