Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki Apostolicus Vicariatus Thessalonicensis Αποστολικό Βικαριάτο Θεσσαλονίκης | |
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Location | |
Country | Greece |
Ecclesiastical province | Immediately exempt to the Holy See |
Statistics | |
Area | 57,550 km2 (22,220 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 3,574,000 8,100 (0.2%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 18 March 1926 |
Cathedral | Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Thessaloniki |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Sede Vacante |
The Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Thessalonicensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in northern continental Greece.
It is exempt to the Holy See and is not part of any ecclesiastical province, and remains vacant under apostolic administrators since its only proper apostolic vicar, Alessandro Guidati, was promoted Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos in 1929.
Its cathedra is within the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, in Thessaloniki.[1]