Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest

Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest Archidioecesis Strigoniensis-Budapestinensis Esztergom-Budapesti Főegyházmegye
The Cathedral Basilica of Esztergom
Location
Country	Hungary
Territory	Esztergom-Budapest
Ecclesiastical province	Esztergom-Budapest
Metropolitan	Esztergom-Budapest
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 2,088,000 1,254,000 (60.1%)
Parishes	188
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin
Established	10th Century (Archdiocese of Esztergom ) 31 May 1993 (As Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest )
Cathedral	Primatial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary and St Adalbert (Esztergom Basilica)
Patron saint	Saint Stephen I
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Cardinal Péter Erdő
Suffragans	Diocese of Győr, Diocese of Székesfehérvár
Auxiliary Bishops	Ferenc Cserháti János Székely György Snell
Emeritus Bishops	Gáspár Ladocsi
Map
Mpa of the Archdiocese Mpa of the Archdiocese
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest (Latin: Archidioecesis Strigoniensis–Budapestinensis) is part of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary.

Duality

Its double name reflects that it has cathedral sees in two Hungarian cities, the old primatial archiepiscopal seat Esztergom and the national capital Budapest, where a co-cathedral basilica is. These two prominent cities fall under the tutelage of one diocese due to Hungary's early history wherein Esztergom was one of the former capitals of the Kingdom of Hungary (much larger than the present republic – roughly the eastern half of the Habsburg empire). Its current Archbishop is Péter Erdő.

History

The diocese was founded in the 10th century and lost much territory to newly founded dioceses since. Its name was changed from Archdiocese of Esztergom on May 31, 1993. It had a uniquely prominent status, see under the title of Prince primate.

The Metropolitan retains the title of Primate, which gives his see precedence over all other Hungarian dioceses, including the fellow Metropolitan Archbishops of Eger, Hajdúdorog (cfr. infra), Kalocsa–Kecskemét and Veszprém, but he may be individually outranked if one of them holds a (higher) cardinalate.

His suffragans are the Latin Bishops of Győr and Székesfehérvár, while the former Roman Catholic Diocese of Hajdúdorog, until then also its suffragan, was elevated in 2015 to Hungarian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Hajdúdorog (Eastern Catholic archdiocese), now the Metropolitan (with two suffragans in his own province) in chief of the Hungarian Catholic Church, of Byzantine Rite.

Metropolitan Archbishops of Esztergom-Budapest

See also Archdiocese of Esztergom for earlier incumbent Metropolitan archbishops

• László Paskai (3 March 1987 - 7 December 2002) (As Archbishop of Esztergom until 1993)
• Péter Erdõ (7 December 2002 - present)

See also

• Esztergom Basilica
• Roman Catholicism in Hungary

External links

• Archdiocese of Gran (in Catholic Encyclopedia) (not fully used here)
• Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest website (only in Hungarian)
• GCatholic.org with incumbents list, linking to biographies
• Catholic Hierarchy