Diocese of Roermond
Ruremunden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Roermond, Netherlands
The Diocese of Roermond is a Latin Church diocese coextensive with the Dutch province of Limburg, originally established in 1559 and re-established in 1853 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Utrecht. Its cathedral is St. Christopher's Cathedral in Roermond, with Bishop Ron van den Hout appointed in 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 May 1559
- Latin
- Ruremunden(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Christopher
- Annuario code
- 001002765
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,086,540
- Population
- 1,131,930
- Catholic share
- 96.0%
- Priests
- 65
- Catholics per priest
- 16,716
- Extent
- 2,209 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 492
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
- Ron van den Hout
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. Christopher's Cathedral stands in Roermond, 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 Groningen–LeeuwardenGroningen–Leeuwarden
- Diocese of Haarlem–AmsterdamHaarlem–Amsterdam
- 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 Province of Limburg in the Netherlands is entrusted to the Diocese of Roermond (Latin: Dioecesis Ruremundensis), one of the seven suffragan dioceses under the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht. The Cathedral of St. Christopher in Roermond is its episcopal seat, and Kapel in 't Zand and Valkenburg are its main pilgrimage sites. Parishes in Roermond itself and a few other municipalities of the diocese fall to the Dean of Roermond.
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].