Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trnava
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trnava
Infobox Roman Catholic diocese
Roman Catholic Diocese of=Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trnava
Latin name of diocese=Dioecesis Tyrnaviensis
caption=Church of St. John the Baptist in Trnava
location=Trnava, Slovakia
territory=Trnava, partly Nitra and Trenčín regions
population=
rite=Roman Rite
patron=John the Baptist
province=Bratislava
established=1977
cathedral=
co-cathedral=
leadership=Ján Sokol
website=
pope=Benedict XVI
metropolitan=
The Archdiocese of Trnava ( _sk. Trnavská arcidiecéza, _la. Archidioecesis Tyrnaviensis) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in western Slovakia including bigger part of the Trnava, and parts of Nitra and Trenčín regions. It has its seat in Trnava. The current archbishop is Ján Sokol.
History
It was first created as Apostolic Administration of Trnava on 29 May 1922, subordinate to the Archdiocese of Esztergom. On the order of Pope Paul VI on 30 December 1977, it was separated from the former, elevated to the status of diocese and renamed to the Archdiocese of Trnava, and it had at first suffragans of Nitra, Banská Bystrica, Rožňava, Košice and Spiš. On 31 March 1995, the archdiocese was renamed to Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava, and since then it had only suffragans of Banská Bystrica and Nitra. Its territory covered Bratislava, Trnava, Nitra (except the city of Nitra and the strip connecting it with the main part of the Diocese of Nitra), small part of the Trenčín and south-western part of the Banská Bystrica regions. As of 2004, it covered an area of approximately 14,000 km² with a population of 1,930,000 people of which around 70% were of Catholic faith. [ [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dbrtr.html Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava at catholic-hierarchy.org] ]
On 14 February 2008, the archdiocese was split between several dioceses. Trnava became seat of the newly-created Archdiocese of Trnava, which, despite being an archdiocese, belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bratislava as its suffragan. Other parts of the former diocese have been split between the dioceses of Nitra and Banská Bystrica (see e.g. [http://www.kbs.sk/images/site_content/provincie_n.gifthis map (in Slovak)] .
References
External links
* [http://www.kbs.sk/?cid=1117223394 Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava] sk icon
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