Archdiocese of Bratislava Dioecesis Bratislaviensis Arcibiskupstvo Bratislava | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Slovakia |
| Territory | Bratislava Region, parts of theTrnava Region |
| Metropolitan | Bratislava |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 3,759 km2 (1,451 sq mi) |
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| Parishes | 124 |
| Churches | 206 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 2008 |
| Cathedral | St. Martin's Cathedral |
| Patron saint | St Martin of Tours |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Archbishop | Stanislav Zvolenský |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Jozef Haľko |
| Vicar General | Jozef Haľko Daniel Ižold |
| Map | |
 Map of the Archdiocese | |
TheArchdiocese of Bratislava (Slovak:Bratislavská arcidiecéza,Latin:Archidioecesis Bratislaviensis) is aLatin Church archdiocese of theCatholic Church in westernSlovakia includingBratislava and the westernTrnava regions. It has its seat inBratislava. The current archbishop isStanislav Zvolenský and auxiliary bishop isJozef Haľko.
It was first created as Apostolic Administration of Trnava on 29 May 1922, subordinate to theArchdiocese of Esztergom. On the order ofPope 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 firstsuffragans 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 ofNitra and the strip connecting it with the main part of theDiocese of Nitra), small part of theTrenčín and south-western part of theBanská 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.[2]
On 14 February 2008, the archdiocese was split between several dioceses. It was renamed from Bratislava-Trnava into Archdiocese of Bratislava and the seat moved fromTrnava to Bratislava, which became the seat of the Slovak church. Trnava became seat of the newly createdArchdiocese of Trnava, which however still belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bratislava as its suffragan. Other parts of the former diocese have been split between the dioceses ofNitra andBanská Bystrica.[3]
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