Roman Catholic Diocese of Spiš

Diocese of Spiš Dioecesis Scepusiensis Spišská Diecéza
250px Cathedral of St. Martin in Spišská Kapitula
Location
Country	Slovakia
Metropolitan	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Košice
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 603,600 454,630 (75.3%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	13 March 1776
Cathedral	St. Martin's Cathedral
Patron saint	Saint Martin of Tours
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Štefan Sečka
Metropolitan Archbishop	Bernard Bober
Auxiliary Bishops	Andrej Imrich
Map
Map of the Diocese Map of the Diocese
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Spiš (Slovak: Spišská diecéza, Latin: Dioecesis Scepusiensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in northern Slovakia. It covers central and eastern parts of the Žilina Region and western part of the Prešov Region. Its seat is in Spišská Kapitula; the diocese covers an area of 7,802 km² with 583,633 people of which 76.6% are of Catholic faith (2004). The current bishop is Štefan Sečka.

History

The diocese was established on 13 March 1776 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Esztergom. In 1804, its metropolitan was changed to the Archdiocese of Eger. On 30 December 1977, it was taken from the former and became part of the newly created Slovak ecclesiastical province with metropolitan being 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 Spiš at catholic-hierarchy.org
• Diocese of Spiš at newadvent.org