Archdiocese of Strasbourg
Argentoraten(sis) seu Argentinen(sis)
Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See · Latin Church · Strasbourg, France
The Archdiocese of Strasbourg is a Latin rite archdiocese covering the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments of Alsace, an ancient see erected in the 4th century and elevated to an archdiocese on 1 June 1988; it is immediately subject to the Holy See and operates under the Alsace-Moselle concordat regime. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Strasbourg.
The see
- Rank
- Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1988
- Latin
- Argentoraten(sis) seu Argentinen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Arbogast
- Annuario code
- 001003116
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,394,800
- Population
- 1,903,000
- Catholic share
- 73.3%
- Priests
- 328
- Catholics per priest
- 4,252
- Extent
- 8,280 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 168
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
- Archbishop
- Pascal Delannoy
- Born
- 2 April 1957
- Birthplace
- Comines
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 of Notre Dame in Strasbourg stands in Strasbourg, 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
First mentioned in 343 AD, the Archdiocese of Strasbourg (Latin: Archidioecesis Argentoratensis o Argentinensis; French: Archidiocèse de Strasbourg; German: Erzbistum Straßburg; Alsatian: Ärzbischofsìtz Strossburi(g)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is one of nine archbishoprics in France with no suffragan dioceses, and the only archdiocese that is exempt, standing outside the ecclesiastical province of any metropolitan. Pascal Delannoy, installed on 21 April 2024, is the current archbishop.
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].