Archdiocese of Alba Iulia Archidioecesis Albae Iuliensis Arhiepiscopia de Alba Iulia
Location
Country	Romania
Metropolitan	Immediately Subject to the Holy See
Statistics
Area	58,254 km2 (22,492 sq mi)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2015) 4,017,256 397,778 (9.9%)
Parishes	253
Information
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1009 (As Diocese of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen) 22 March 1932 (As Diocese of Alba Iulia) 5 August 1991 (Archdiocese of Alba Iulia)
Cathedral	St. Michael's Cathedral, Alba Iulia
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Archbishop	Gergely Kovács
Auxiliary Bishops	László Kerekes (elect)
Bishops emeritus	György Jakubinyi József Tamás
Map
Administrative map of Roman-Catholic Church

TheRoman Catholic Archdiocese ofAlba Iulia (Latin:Archidioecesis Albae Iuliensis);Hungarian:Gyulafehérvári Római Katolikus Érsekség) is aLatin Church archdiocese inTransylvania,Romania.

It was established as a bishopric, thediocese of Transylvania also calledErdély (in Hungarian), orKarlsburg aliasSiebenbürgen (in German), in 1009 by KingStephen I of Hungary and was renamed as thediocese of Alba Iulia on 22 March 1932.

It was raised to the rank of an archdiocese byPope John Paul II on 5 August 1991. It is exempt, i.e. directly subordinate to the Vatican, while the other Romanian dioceses form theEcclesiastical Province of Bucharest.

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Bishops

• (?)Franco (1071–1081)
• Simon (1111–1113)
• Peter (1134)
• Baranus (1139)
• Walter (1156–1157/8)
• Vilcina (1166–1169)
• Paul (1181)
• Adrian (1192–1201)
• William (1204–1221)
• Raynald of Belleville (1222–1241)
• Artolf (1244–1245)
• Gallus (1246–1269)
• Peter Monoszló (1270–1307)
• Benedict (1309–1319)
• Demetrius (1368–1376)
• Goblinus (1376–1386)
• János Statileo (1534–1542)
• Pál Bornemissza (1553–1556)
• Demeter Naprágyi (1597–1605)
• József Batthyány (1759–1760)
• József Anton Bajtay (1760–1772)
• Piusz Manzador (1772–1774)
• László von Kollonich (1775–1780)
• Ignác Batthyány (1780–1798)
• Sándor Rudnay (1815–1819)
• Lajos Haynald (1852–1863)
• Áron Márton (1938–1980)
• Lajos Bálint (1990–1991)

Archbishops

• Lajos Bálint (1991–1993)
• György Jakubinyi (1994–2019)
• Gergely Kovács (since 2019)

• György-Miklós Jakubinyi (1990–1994), appointed Archbishop here
• József Tamás (1996–2019)
• László Kerekes (since 2020)

The archdiocese covers Transylvania proper—the counties ofAlba,Bistrița-Năsăud,Brașov,Cluj,Covasna,Harghita,Hunedoara,Mureș,Sălaj andSibiu.

Thecathedral episcopal see is St. Michael's, in Alba Iulia city. It also has aminor basilica inȘumuleu Ciuc.

11% of its inhabitants are Roman Catholic, with concentrations in parts of Harghita and Covasna counties. Catholic adherents are predominantlyethnic Hungarians.

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