Roman Catholic Diocese of Roermond

Roman Catholic Diocese of Roermond
Location of the Diocese of Roermond in the Netherlands

The Diocese of Roermond is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The diocese is one of the seven Roman-Catholic dioceses suffragan to the Archdiocese of Utrecht. Re-established in 1853, the diocesan territory comprises those of the borders of the province Limburg.

Its Cathedral is the St. Christopher Cathedral in Roermond. The diocese has roughly 817,000 registered Roman-Catholics (about 72,3% of the population of Limburg). Roughly 3 percent of the population in the Diocese Roermond attends mass on sundays [1] (as per official Roman-Catholic (KASKI) data). The Roermond diocese is one out of two in the Netherlands that is in majority Roman-Catholic as per the most recent KASKI data.

Its main Pilgrimage sites are Kapel in het Zand and Valkenburg. The most beautiful churches are in Roermond, Kapel in het Zand, Wessem, Thorn, Valkenburg and Maastricht.

The dean of Roermond is responsible for the parishes in the city of Roermond and a few other municipalities in the diocese of Roermond.

List of bishops

Bishops of the first diocese Bishops after 1853
  1. Wilhelmus Lindanus (1562–1588)
  2. Henricus Cuyckius (1596–1609)
  3. Jacobus a Castro (1611–1639)
  4. Andreas Creusen (1651–1657)
  5. Eugenius, Count d'Allamont (1659–1666)
  6. Lancelot de Gottignies (1672–1673)
  7. Reginaldus Cools (1677–1700)
  8. Angelus, Count d'Ongnies et d'Estrees (1701–1722)
  9. Franciscus Sanguessa (1722–1741)
  10. Josephus Werbrouck (1743–1746)
  11. Johannes de Robiano (1746–1769)
  12. Henricus Kerens (1770–1775)
  13. Philippus, Emipire Count van en tot Hoensbroeck (1775–1793)
  14. Joannes, Baron van Velde tot Melroy en Sart-Bomal (1794–1801)
  1. Joannes Paredis (1853–1886)
  2. Franciscus Boermans (1886–1900)
  3. Josephus Drehmanns (1900–1913)
  4. Laurentius Schrijnen (1914–1932)
  5. Gulielmus Lemmens (1932–1958)
  6. Antonius Hanssen (1958-1958)
  7. Petrus Moors (1959–1970)
  8. Joannes Gijsen (1972–1993)
    1. Alphonsus Castermans, auxiliary from January 16, 1982 till May 3, 1997
  9. Frans Wiertz (1993- )
    1. Everhardus Johannes de Jong, auxiliary since 1998

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