Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia

Archdiocese of Alba Iulia Archidioecesis Albae Iuliensis Arhiepiscopia de Alba Iulia
Location
Country	Romania
Metropolitan	Immediately Subject to the Holy See
Statistics
Area	58,254 km2 (22,492 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2015) 4,017,256 397,778 (9.9%)
Parishes	253
Information
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1009 (As Diocese of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen) 22 March 1932 (As Diocese of Alba Iulia) 5 August 1991 (Archdiocese of Alba Iulia)
Cathedral	St. Michael's Cathedral, Alba Iulia
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Gergely Kovács
Auxiliary Bishops	László Kerekes (elect)
Bishops emeritus	György Jakubinyi József Tamás
Map
Administrative map of Roman-Catholic Church

There is also a Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Alba Iulia and a Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia (Hungarian: Gyulafehérvári Római Katolikus Érsekség) is a Latin Church Catholic archdiocese in Transylvania, Romania.

History

It was established as a bishopric, the diocese of Transylvania also called Erdély (in Hungarian), or Karlsburg alias Siebenbürgen (in German), in 1009 by King Stephen I of Hungary and was renamed as the diocese of Alba Iulia on 22 March 1932.

It was raised to the rank of an archdiocese by Pope John Paul II on 5 August 1991. It is exempt, i.e. directly subordinate to the Vatican, while the other Romanian dioceses form the Ecclesiastical Province of Bucharest.

Its first archbishop since 1994 was György Jakubinyi.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• György-Miklós Jakubínyi (1994-2019)
• Gergely Kovács (2019-)

Auxiliary Bishops

• György-Miklós Jakubínyi (1990-1994), appointed Archbishop here
• József Tamás (1996-2019)
• László Kerekes (2020-)

Description

The archdiocese covers Transylvania proper—the counties of Alba, Bistriţa-Năsăud, Braşov, Cluj, Covasna, Harghita, Hunedoara, Mureş, Sălaj and Sibiu.

The cathedral episcopal see is St. Michael's, in Alba Julia city. It also has a minor basilica in Şumuleu Ciuc.

Population

11% of the inhabitants are Roman Catholic, with concentrations in parts of Harghita and Covasna counties. Catholic adherents are predominantly ethnic Hungarians.

External links

• (in Hungarian) Official site
• GigaCatholic, listing the episcopal incumbents