Roman Catholic Diocese of Rožňava

Diocese of Rožňava Dioecesis Rosnaviensis Dieceze Roznavska
250px Coat of arms of diocese
Location
Country	Slovakia
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Košice
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 390,177 227,511 (58.3%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Established	13 March 1776
Cathedral	Assumption of Mary Church (Rožňava)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Stanislav Stolárik
Map
Map of the Diocese Map of the Diocese

The Diocese of Rožňava (Slovak: Rožňavská diecéza, Latin: Dioecesis Rosnaviensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in southern Slovakia. It covers central and eastern parts of the Banská Bystrica Region and western parts of the Košice Region. Its seat is in Rožňava, covers an area of 7,000 km² with 343,352 people of which 58% are of Catholic faith (2004). Auxiliary Bishop Stanislav Stolárik, Titular Bishop of Barica, who until then had been serving as Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Košice, in Košice, Slovakia, was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Rožňava on Saturday, 21 March 2015, by Pope Francis, succeeding Bishop Emeritus Vladimír Filo, who himself had succeeded Bishop Emeritus Eduard Kojnok in 2008.

History

The diocese was established by Maria Theresa on 13 March 1776 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Esztergom. It was then known by its German name diocese of Rosenau, or Hungarian name diocese of Rozsnyó. In 1776 János Galgóczy was appointed first Bishop of Rosenau, but died before taking charge. His successor, Count Antal Révay (1776–80), caused the church to be restored and the high altar to be renovated. Among his successors were: János Scitovszky (1827–38), later Bishop of Funfkirchen and Archbishop of Gran; Béla Bartakovics (1845–50), later archbishop of Eger.

On 30 December 1977, it was taken from the former metropolitan, and became part of the newly created Slovak ecclesiastical province with metropolitan the Diocese of Trnava. The last change of metropolitan took place on 31 March 1995 when it was changed to the newly elevated Archdiocese of Košice.

External links

• Official website (Slovak)
• Diocese of Rožňava at catholic-hierarchy.org
• Diocese of Rožňava at newadvent.org

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