Ecclesiastical province Kalocsa-Kecskemét Denomination Roman Catholic Area 8,372 km² Country Hungary Metropolitan archbishop Balázs Bábel | Parishes 127 Rite Latin Phone +36 78 462 667 Patron saint Paul the Apostle | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2014)
536,409
368,755 (68.7%) Co-cathedral Co-Cathedral of the Ascension of Our Lord in Kecskemét Address Kalocsa, Szentháromság tér 1, 6300 Hungary Cathedral Assumption Cathedral, Kalocsa | ||
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kalocsa–Kecskemét (Hungarian: Kalocsa–Kecskeméti Főegyházmegye, Latin: Archidioecesis Colocensis–Kecskemetensis) is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary. Since 1993, its official name is Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Kecskemét. The diocese is the metropolitan of the Diocese of Pécs and the Diocese of Szeged-Csanád. The patron saint is Saint Paul. The current archbishop is Balázs Bábel, who was appointed in 1999.
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Establishment of the Archdiocese
The Archdiocese of Kalocsa was probably originally set up as a Bishopric by King Stephen I of Hungary, but it became the second Archbishopric in 1009. Its original suffragans were the bishops of Bihar (Romanian: Biharea) and Transylvania. Around 1028 the bishop of the newly established Diocese of Csanád also became a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Kalocsa.
Secular offices connected to the archbishopric
The Archbishops of Kalocsa were, from the 15th century to 1776, the perpetual ispáns (Hungarian: Bács vármegye örökös főispánja, Latin: Bacsiensis perpetuus supremus comes).