The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ljubljana (, ) is a

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ecclesiastical territory or

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of the Catholic Church in Slovenia."Archdiocese of Ljubljana"
'' Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ljubljana"
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Archdiocese

The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Ljubljana; it also contains minor basilicas in Brezje and

Stična Stična (; in older sources also ''Zatičina'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 102–103. ) is a village in the Municipality of Iva ...

. Since November 2014, the Archbishop of Ljubljana, and thus Primate of Slovenia, has been Stanislav Zore. He was appointed by

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on 4 October 2014 and succeeded

Anton Stres Anton Stres, C.M. (born 15 December 1942), was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana and the metropolitan bishop of Ljubljana as well as the president of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference from January 2010 until July 20 ...

. Anton Stres, who was appointed Archbishop of Ljubljana by

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on 28 November 2009, resigned in July 2013 due to his involvement in the financial fiasco of the Archdiocese of Maribor.

History

An ancient diocese of

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in the city of Cittanova to form a new diocese. From 811, the territory of the Ljubljana Archdiocese was part of the ecclesiastical territory of the

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, erected on 6 December 1461 the ''Diocese of Laibach'', which was confirmed six months later, on 6 September 1462, by

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. Several days later, it was taken from the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Aquileia and made directly subject to the

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. On 3 March 1787, it became an

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and a

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, which it remained until 1807, when it was for political reasons degraded to a common diocese. The Nazi persecution of the Church in annexed Slovenia was akin to that which occurred in Poland. Within six weeks of the Nazi occupation, only 100 of the 831 priests in the Diocese of Maribor and part of the Diocese of Ljubljana remained free. Clergy were persecuted and sent to concentration camps, while

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s had their properties seized. The diocese was again elevated to an archdiocese by

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on 22 December 1961, and to a metropolis by

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on 22 November 1968. Today the archdiocese has two suffragan sees,

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(since 1977) and

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(since 2006). It is the principal see of Slovenia; one living former archbishop, Franc Rode, CM, was promoted to a Curial office (Prefect of the

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) and made a Cardinal.

List of bishops of Ljubljana

* Sigmund Lamberg (1463–1488) * Krištof Ravbar (1488–1536) * Franc Kacijanar (1536–1543) * Urban Textor (Tkalec) (1543–1558) * Peter Seebach (1558–1568) * Konrad Adam Gluschitz (1571–1578) * Baltazar Radlič (1579) * Johann Tautscher (1580–1597) * Thomas Chrön (1597–1630) * Rinaldo Scarlichi (1630–1640) * Otto Friedrich von Buchheim (1641–1664)"Bishop Otto Friedrich von Buchheim (Puchheim)"
'' Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 21, 2016 * Joseph Rabatta (1664–1683) * Sigmund von Herberstein (1683–1701) * Franz von Kuenburg (1701–1710) * Franz Karl von Kaunitz (1710–1717) * Wilhelm von Leslie (1718–1727) *Sigmund Felix von Schrattenbach (1727–1742) * Ernest Attems (1742–1757) * Leopold Petazzi de Castel Nuovo (1760–1772) * Johann Karl von Herberstein (1772–1787) * Michel Brigido (1787–1807) * Anton Kavčič (1807–1814) * Augustin Gruber (1815–1823) * Anton Aloys Wolf (1824–1859) * Jernej Vidmar (1860–1875) * Janez Zlatoust Pogačar (1875–1884) * Jakob Missia (1884–1898) * Anton Bonaventura Jeglič (1898–1930) * Gregorij Rožman (1930–1959)

List of archbishops of Ljubljana

* Anton Vovk (1959–1963) *

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(1964–1980) * Alojzij Šuštar (1980–1997) * Franc Rode, C.M. (1997–2004) (elevated to Cardinal in 2006) ** Andrej Glavan, Apostolic Administrator (2004) * Alojz Uran (2004–2009) *

, C.M. (2009–2013) ** Andrej Glavan, Apostolic Administrator (2013–2014) * Stane Zore, OFM (2014–present)

Auxiliary bishops

* Michael Chumer (Chumberg), O.F.M. (1639–1651)"Bishop Michael Chumer (Chumberg), O.F.M."
'' Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 21, 2016 *Franc Jožef Mikolič (Mikolitsch) (1789–1793) *Franz von Raigesfeld, S.J. (1795–1800) *Johannes Antonius de Ricci (1801–1818) * Anton Vovk (1946–1959) Appointed, Bishop of Ljubljana *Jožef Pogačnik (1963–1964) Appointed, Archbishop of Ljubljana *Stanislav Lenič (1967–1988) *Jožef Kvas (1983–1999) * Alojz Uran (1992–2004) Appointed, Archbishop of Ljubljana * Andrej Glavan (2000–2006) Appointed, Bishop of Novo Mesto * Anton Jamnik (2005–) * Franc Šuštar (2015–)

References

External links

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