Diocese of Prešov
Prešovien(sis)
Metropolitan Church sui iuris · Byzantine tradition · Prešov, Slovakia
Metropolitan archeparchy of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church, erected as an eparchy in 1818 and raised to a metropolitan archeparchy in 2008, with the Eparchies of Košice and Bratislava as suffragans. Jonáš Maxim has been archeparch since 2023. Note: this see is Byzantine (Greek Catholic) rite, not Latin rite as labeled in the source; there is no Latin diocese of Prešov.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan Church sui iuris
- Tradition
- Byzantine tradition
- Erected
- 1818
- Latin
- Prešovien(sis)
- Patron
- san Juan Bautista
- Annuario code
- 001000573
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 117,915
- Population
- 2,020
- Priests
- 249
- Catholics per priest
- 474
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
- Archeparch
- Jonáš Maxim
- Born
- 21 November 1974
- Birthplace
- Levoča
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 St. John the Baptist stands in Prešov, 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 Prešov
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the Slovak Greek Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Holy See, Prešov holds the rank of archeparchy (Latin: Archieparchiensis Presoviensis), the Eastern equivalent of a Latin archdiocese. It serves as the metropolitan see of the Slovak Greek Catholic ecclesiastical province, whose territory embraces the whole of Slovakia.
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 · GCatholic
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].