Diocese of København
Hafniae
Diocese immediately subject to the Holy See · Latin Church · København, Denmark
The Diocese of Copenhagen is an exempt Latin Catholic see covering all of Denmark, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland, immediately subject to the Holy See. It was elevated from an apostolic vicariate to a diocese in 1953 and is led by Bishop Czeslaw Kozon since 1995.
The see
- Rank
- Diocese immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1953
- Latin
- Hafniae
- Patron
- Santo Ansgário
- Annuario code
- 001001877
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 38,614
- Population
- 5,707,749
- Catholic share
- 0.7%
- Priests
- 78
- Catholics per priest
- 495
- Extent
- 2,220,093 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Czeslaw Kozon
- Born
- 17 November 1951
- Birthplace
- Sonder Tpstrup-Sud Falster
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. Ansgar's Cathedral stands in København, 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
All of Denmark falls under a single Latin Church diocese named for its episcopal see, the national capital Copenhagen; its territory also takes in two Danish overseas possessions, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Of the diocesan territory's 5,516,597 inhabitants, an estimated 36,000 (0.7%) are Catholics. The Diocese of Copenhagen is exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See. St. Ansgar's Cathedral is its principal church, and Czeslaw Kozon, appointed in 1995, is the current bishop.
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].