Roman Catholic Diocese of Žilina

Roman Catholic diocese in Slovakia

Diocese of Žilina

Dioecesis Zilinensis

Žilinská Diecéza

Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Žilina

Coat of arms

Location
Country| Slovakia
Territory| NW of Trenčín and W of Žilina regions
Ecclesiastical province| Bratislava
Metropolitan| Žilina
Deaneries| 12
Statistics
Population
- Total
- Catholics| (as of 2014)
592,200
484,200 (81.8%)
Information
Denomination| Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church| Latin Church
Rite| Roman Rite
Established| 14 February 2008
Cathedral| Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Žilina
Patron saint| Saints Cyril and Methodius
Current leadership
Pope| Francis
Bishop| Tomáš Galis
Metropolitan Archbishop| Stanislav Zvolenský
Vicar General| Mons. ThLic. Marek Hriadel
Map

Map of the Diocese
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Žilina (Slovak: Žilinská Diecéza, Latin: Dioecesis Zilinensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in north-western Slovakia including parts of the Trenčín and Žilina regions. It has its seat in Žilina. The current bishop is Tomáš Galis.

## History

[edit]

Silver Cross

The diocese was established on 14 February 2008 from the northern parts of the Diocese of Nitra, which shifted more to the south and from a small part of the Diocese of Banská Bystrica.

In 2018, for the diocese’s tenth anniversary, a Silver Cross started to be awarded.[1]

Priest Michal Tichy in Cathedral speaks to Slovaks about Evangelium Mathew 28, 8-15 during the Easter 2022

The newest activities in 2022 from the newly established Caplan, the Roman Catholic priest Michal Tichy, were connected to another willingness project—The Wikimedia Foundation's interests. The priest allowed Wikipedians, from the first point, to publish the edited record of his Holy Mass 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

[edit]

The diocese currently has 12 deaneries in the towns:

* Bytča
* Čadca
* Ilava
* Krásno nad Kysucou
* Kysucké Nové Mesto
* Martin

* Považská Bystrica
* Púchov
* Rajec
* Turzovka
* Varín
* Žilina

|

## Notes

[edit]

1. ^ "Žilinská diecéza si pripomína desať rokov od svojho vzniku - Žilinská diecéza - Rímskokatolícka cirkev". dcza.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 19 February 2018.

## External links

[edit]

* Official site of the diocese

* v
* t
* e

Dioceses of the Catholic Church (both Latin and Eastern Catholic) in Slovakia

Roman Catholic dioceses|

| Western province|

* BratislavaM
* TrnavaA
* Banská Bystrica
* Nitra
* Žilina

|

Eastern province|

* KošiceM
* Rožňava
* Spiš

Exempt|

* Military Ordinariate of Slovakia

Flag of Slovakia

Greek Catholic eparchies|

* PrešovM
* Bratislava
* Košice

M = metropolitan archdiocese or archeparchy; A = archdiocese

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Czech Republic

This article about a Roman Catholic diocese in Europe is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

This Slovakia-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template