Roman Catholic Diocese of Zrenjanin

Diocese of Zrenjanin Dioecesis Zrenianensis Епархија Зрењанин
File:Zrenjanin Cathedral.jpg Cathedral od Saint John of Nepomuk
Location
Country	Serbia
Ecclesiastical province	Belgrade
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Belgrade
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 552,809 64,110 (11.6%)
Information
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	10 February 1923 (As Apostolic Administration of Jugoslavenska Banat) 16 December 1986 (As Diocese of Zrenjanin)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. John of Nepomuk, Zrenjanin
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	László Német
Metropolitan Archbishop	Stanislav Hočevar
Emeritus Bishops	László Huzsvár
Map
Map of organization of Catholic Church in Serbia   Belgrade Archbishopric - Green   Subotica Bishopric - Yellow   Zrenjanin Bishopric - Beige   Prizren Bishopric - Violet   Syrmia Bishopric - Brown Map of organization of Catholic Church in Serbia   Belgrade Archbishopric - Green   Subotica Bishopric - Yellow   Zrenjanin Bishopric - Beige   Prizren Bishopric - Violet   Syrmia Bishopric - Brown
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zrenjanin (Latin: Dioecesis Zrenjanensis, Serbian: Zrenjaninska biskupija / Зрењанинска бискупија, Hungarian: Nagybecskereki egyházmegye, Croatian: Zrenjaninska biskupija, German: Bistum Zrenjanin) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Serbia. It is subject to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade. The Diocese is centered in the city of Zrenjanin. László Német currently serves as bishop.

Territory

The Diocese of Zrenjanin encompasses the Serbian part of the Banat region, which is mostly situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (the small part of the area administratively belongs to the City of Belgrade).

The diocese's cathedral is the Cathedral of Saint John of Nepomuk in Zrenjanin, which was built in 1868.

The diocese is multi-ethnic and has members primarily from the sizable Hungarian and Croat communities, as well as Bulgarians, Czechs, Slovaks, and Germans.

History

It was erected as an Apostolic administration for Yugoslav Banat in 1923 and elevated to a diocese in 1986. Until the end of World War II, the largest number of Catholics in the territory of this diocese was of German ethnicity.

Administrators and bishops

• 1923-1936 Ivan Rafael Rodić
• 1936-1961 Josip Ujčić
• 1961-1971 Gabriel Bukatko
• 1971-1988 Tamás Jung (bishop since 1986)
• 1988-2007 László Huzsvár
• 2007-now László Nemet

See also

• Roman Catholic Church in Serbia
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Subotica
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Syrmia
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Timişoara, in Romanian Banat

External links

• Bishopric of Zrenjanin