- Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
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Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Dioecesis Rottenburgensis-Stutgardiensis
Rottenburg CathedralLocation Country Germany Ecclesiastical province Freiburg Metropolitan Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Statistics Area 19,514 km2 (7,534 sq mi) Population
- Total
- Catholics(as of 31.12.2008)
5,088,000
1,955,000 (38.4%)Parishes 998 Information Denomination Roman Catholic Rite Roman Rite Established 16 August 1821 Cathedral St. Martin's, Rottenburg Co-cathedral St. Eberhard, Stuttgart Patron saint Martin of Tours Secular priests 902 Current leadership Pope Benedict XVI Bishop Gebhard Fürst
Bishop of FreiburgMetropolitan Archbishop Robert Zollitsch
Archbishop of FreiburgAuxiliary Bishop Johannes Kreidler, Thomas Maria Renz Vicars General Clemens Stroppel Emeritus Bishops Franz Josef Kuhnle, Bernhard Rieger Map 
Website www.drs.de 
The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart (lat: Dioecesis Rottenburgensis-Stutgardiensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. The diocese is located in the Württemberg part of the German State of Baden-Württemberg.
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History
The Diocese of Rottenburg was established in 1821 through the Papal Bull De salute animarum. With the enthronement of the first bishop, Johann Baptist von Keller, on May 20, 1828, the formation of the diocese was complete. In 1978, the diocese changed its name to the current form of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
Diocesan arrangement
The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is a suffragan diocese of Freiburg and is made up of 45 deaneries containing 1,039 parishes:
Deaneries
- Aalen
- Backnang
- Balingen
- Biberach
- Böblingen
- Calw
- Ehingen
- Ellwangen
- Esslingen-Nürtingen
- Freudenstadt
- Friedrichshafen
- Geislingen
- Göppingen
- Heidenheim
- Heilbronn
- Hohenlohe
- Laupheim
- Leutkirch
- Ludwigsburg
- Mergentheim
- Mühlacker
- Neckarsulm
- Neresheim
- Oberndorf
- Ochsenhausen
- Ravensburg
- Reutlingen
- Riedlingen
- Rottenburg am Neckar
- Rottweil
- Saulgau
- Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Schwäbisch Hall
- Spaichingen
- Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
- Stuttgart-Filder
- Stuttgart-Mitte
- Stuttgart-Nord
- Tuttlingen
- Ulm
- Waiblingen
- Waldsee
- Wangen
- Zwiefalten
St. Martin's Cathedral, Rottenburg
Bishops
Name Term in office Johann Baptist von Keller 28 Jan 1828 – 17 Oct 1845 Josef von Lipp 14 Jun 1847 – 3 May 1869 Karl Joseph von Hefele 17 Jun 1869 – 5 Jun 1893 Wilhelm von Reiser 5 Jun 1893 – 11 May 1898 Franz Xaver von Linsenmann 20 Jul 1898 – 21 Sep 1898 Paul Wilhelm Keppler 11 Nov 1898 – 16 Jul 1926 Johannes Baptista Sproll 29 Mar 1927 – 4 Mar 1949 Carl Joseph Leiprecht 4 Jul 1949 – 4 Jun 1974 Georg Moser 12 Mar 1975 – 9 May 1988 Walter Kasper 17 Apr 1989 – 31 May 1999 Gebhard Fürst since 7 Jul 2000 Cathedrals
- St. Martin's Cathedral in Rottenburg
- Co-cathedral of St. Eberhard in Stuttgart
St. Eberhard's Cathedral, StuttgartSee also
List of Bishops of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
References
- The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent.
External links
- (German) Diocesan website
"Rottenburg". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany Province of Bamberg Province of Berlin Province of Cologne Province of Freiburg Province of Hamburg Province of Munich and Freising Province of Paderborn Sui iuris Jurisdictions Categories:- Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany
- Rottenburg am Neckar
- Stuttgart
- Religious organizations established in 1821
- Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century
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