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Suffragan diocese Groningen–Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Diocese of Groningen–Leeuwarden

Groningen(sis)-Leovardien(sis)

Latin Church

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.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for St. Joseph Cathedral, in Groningen–Leeuwarden, Netherlands.

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Established
1955
Catholics
102,150
Priests
26
Territory
9,205 km²

Parishes and churches

20 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Ronald Cornelissen

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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.

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.