The Diocese of Žilina (, ) is a

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diocese of the

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in north-western

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including parts of the

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and

Žilina Žilina (; ; ; ; Names of European cities in different languages: U-Z#Z, names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the List of cities ...

regions. It has its seat in

. The current bishop is

Tomáš Galis Tomáš Galis (born 22 December 1950 in Selice) is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Žilina. Tomáš Galis was born, the first of five children to Stephen Galis and Christine Šprláková. In 1966 he completed the basic nine-y ...

History

The diocese was established on 14 February 2008 from the northern parts of the

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, which shifted more to the south and from a small part of the

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. In 2018, for the diocese’s tenth anniversary, a Silver Cross started to be awarded. The newest activities in 2022 from the newly established Caplan, the Roman Catholic priest Michal Tichy, were connected to another willingness project—The

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's interests. The priest allowed

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, from the first point, to publish the edited record of his

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freely to the whole world. His own homilies were firstly recorded 18 April 2022 in consideration of the Evangelium of Mathew 28, 8–15.

Deaneries

The diocese currently has 12 deaneries in the towns:

Notes

External links

Official site
of the diocese Roman Catholic dioceses in Slovakia Žilina {{Slovakia-stub