The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Košice ( sk, Košická arcidiecéza, la, Archidioecesis Cassoviensis) is a

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archdiocese in eastern

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, with its seat in

Košice Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...

. It covers the central and eastern parts of the

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and

regions, with an area of 10,403 km². The diocese's area has a total population of 1,153,505 people, of which around 61% were of Catholic faith as of 2012. The Cathedral of St. Elizabeth serves as the seat of the diocese. The current Archbishop, Bernard Bober was appointed on June 4, 2010, and canonically took power of the archdiocese on July 10, 2010. He had formerly served as auxiliary bishop under

Alojz Tkáč Monsignor Alojz Tkáč (born March 2, 1934, in Ohradzany, Slovakia) is Slovak bishop, he was the first archbishop of the Košice Episcopal see (1995 to 2010), nowadays archbishop emeritus. He is a "golden" blood Blood is a body fluid in the ...

. On June 11, 2016, priest Marek Forgáč was appointed as the new auxiliary bishop by Pope Francis.

History

It was first created in 1804 under name Diocese of Košice as a

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to the

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. In 1977, the metropolitan was changed to the newly established ecclesiastical province of Trnava. On 31 March 1995, a new

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was created, changing the status of the diocese into archdiocese with the suffragans of

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and

Rožňava Rožňava ( hu, Rozsnyó, german: Rosenau, Latin: ''Rosnavia'') is a town in Slovakia, approximately by road from Košice in the Košice Region, and has a population of 19,182. The town is an economic and tourist centre of the Gemer. Rožňava ...

St Charles Borromeo Seminary St Charles Borromeo Seminary ( sk, Kňazský seminár sv. Karola Boromejského) is the Roman Catholic Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Košice in Košice, Slovakia. The Seminary is located on Main street directly in downtown Košice, Slovaki ...

, the diocese's main seminary, was founded in 1994.

References

*Hišem, Cyril (2000). Dejiny Kňazského Seminára v Košiciach (1918-1950). Vydavateľstvo Michala Vaška. (in Slovak)
Official site

* Roman Catholic dioceses in Slovakia Catholic Church in Slovakia Košice {{Slovakia-stub

History

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