Archdiocese of Gorizia Archidioecesis Goritiensis | |
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 Gorizia Cathedral | |
| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Gorizia |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 1,030 km2 (400 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2021) 183,384 175,300 (guess) |
| Parishes | 90 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 6 July 1751 (273 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cattedrale di Ss. Ilario e Taziano |
| Secular priests | 84 (diocesan) 14 (religious Orders) 12 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Archbishop | Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli |
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| Website | |
| gorizia.chiesacattolica.it | |
The Archdiocese of Gorizia (Latin: Archidioecesis Goritiensis is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Italy. The archiepiscopal see of Gorizia (Friulian: Gurizza/Gurizze; German: Görz; Slovene: Gorica) was founded in 1751 when the Patriarchate of Aquileia was abolished, and its territory divided between two new dioceses, Udine and Gorizia. The diocese of Gorizia was suppressed in 1788 for the creation of the Diocese of Gradisca (union of the Archdiocese of Gorizia and Dioceses of Trieste and Pedena) and re-established in 1791 as the Diocese of Gorizia e Gradisca. It was raised again to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1830.
The diocese of Ljubljana (Laibach), Trieste-Koper (Capo d'Istria), Poreč-Pula (Parenzo-Pola), and Krk-Rab (Veglia-Arbe) were formerly under the metropolitan jurisdiction of this archdiocese; however, now the Diocese of Trieste is its only suffragan diocese.
The territory of the Archdiocese was identical with the Austro-Hungarian County of Gorizia and Gradisca until 1918 when it was transferred to Italy at the conclusion of the First World War.
Also from 1766, the archbishop was Prince of the Holy Roman Empire,[citation needed] and, from its establishment in 1861 until 1918, a member of the Austrian House of Lords.[citation needed]