Diocese of Groningen–Leeuwarden
Groningen(sis)-Leovardien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Groningen–Leeuwarden, Netherlands
The Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden is a Latin Church diocese covering the northern Dutch provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe, restored in 1955 and renamed in 2005. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, its cathedral is St. Joseph Cathedral in Groningen, with Bishop Ronald Cornelissen appointed in 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 May 1559
- Latin
- Groningen(sis)-Leovardien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Boniface
- Annuario code
- 001001528
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 102,150
- Population
- 1,944,920
- Catholic share
- 5.3%
- Priests
- 26
- Catholics per priest
- 3,929
- Extent
- 9,205 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 11
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
- Ronald Cornelissen
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. Joseph Cathedral stands in Groningen–Leeuwarden, 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 Utrecht
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Utrecht.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BredaBreda
- Diocese of Haarlem–AmsterdamHaarlem–Amsterdam
- Diocese of RoermondRoermond
- Diocese of RotterdamRotterdam
- Archdiocese of UtrechtUtrecht
- Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch’s-Hertogenbosch
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The northern Netherlands, comprising the provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe together with the Noordoostpolder, a part of the province of Flevoland, falls to the Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden (Dutch: Bisdom Groningen-Leeuwarden; Latin: Dioecesis Groningensis-Leovardiensis). It is a suffragan Latin see within the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht, which covers all the Netherlands.
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].