Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom–Budapest


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest is the primatial seat of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary and the Metropolitan of one of its four Latin rite ecclesiastical provinces.

The Metropolitan archbishopric retains the title of Primate, which gives this see precedence over all other Latin Hungarian dioceses, including the fellow Metropolitan Archbishops of Eger, Kalocsa–Kecskemét and Veszprém, but the incumbent may be individually outranked if one of them holds a cardinalate. Its current Archbishop is Péter Erdő.

Duality and special churches

Its double name reflects that it has cathedral sees in two major Hungarian cities, the old primatial archiepiscopal seat Esztergom and the present national capital Budapest. These two prominent cities fall under the tutelage of one archdiocese due to Hungary's early history wherein Esztergom was one of the former capitals of the Kingdom of Hungary.
The archiepiscopal Cathedral and primatial see is Nagyboldogasszony és Szent Adalbert főszékesegyház, in Esztergom-Vár.
The co-cathedral, a minor basilica and World Heritage Site, is St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest-Szentistvánváros.
The archdiocese has a second minor basilica, Kisboldogasszony-templom, Máriaremete, at Székesfehérvár, in Fejér county.

Statistics

As of 2016, it pastorally served 1,249,000 Catholics covering 1,543 km² in 188 parishes and 28 missions with 435 priests, 23 deacons, 725 lay religious and 38 seminarians.

Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan's suffragan sees are the Latin Bishops of:
The former Roman Catholic Diocese of Hajdúdorog, until then also its suffragan, was elevated in 2015 to Hungarian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Hajdúdorog, now the Metropolitan in chief of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church, of Byzantine Rite.

History

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