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Diocese of Terrassa

Terrassen(sis)

The Diocese of Terrassa is a Latin Church diocese in Catalonia, Spain, erected in 2004 from the Archdiocese of Barcelona, of which it is a suffragan. It traces heritage to the ancient Diocese of Egara.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
15 June 2004
Latin
Terrassen(sis)
Patron
Virgen de la Salud
Annuario code
001003207

The see in figures

Catholics
1,222,420
Population
1,238,655
Catholic share
98.7%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
137
Catholics per priest
8,923
Extent
1,200 km²
Catholics per km²
1,019

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
Salvador Cristau Coll
Born
15 April 1950
Birthplace
Barcelona (Spagna)

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

Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Spirit, Terrassa stands in Terrassa, 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.

The province of Barcelona

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Barcelona.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Terrassa, a city in Catalonia, Spain, gives its name to a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, the Diocese of Terrassa (Latin: Dioecesis Terrassensis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Barcelona.

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].