Roman Catholic Diocese of Rožňava

The Diocese of Rožňava (Slovak: Rožňavská diecéza, Latin: Dioecesis Rosnaviensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in southern Slovakia. It covers central and eastern parts of the Banská Bystrica Region and western parts of the Košice Region. Its seat is in Rožňava, covers an area of 7,000 km² with 343,352 people of which 58% are of Catholic faith (2004).

Diocese of Rožňava Dioecesis Rosnaviensis Dieceze Roznavska
Coat of arms of diocese
Location
Country	Slovakia
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Košice
Statistics
Area	7,000 km2 (2,700 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2020) 441,139 208,233 (47.2%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Established	13 March 1776
Cathedral	Assumption of Mary Church (Rožňava)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Stanislav Stolárik
Map
Map of the Diocese

Auxiliary Bishop Stanislav Stolárik, Titular Bishop of Barica, who until then had been serving as Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Košice, in Košice, Slovakia, was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Rožňava on Saturday, 21 March 2015, by Pope Francis, succeeding Bishop Emeritus Vladimír Filo, who himself had succeeded Bishop Emeritus Eduard Kojnok in 2008.

History

The diocese was established by Maria Theresa on 13 March 1776 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Esztergom. It was then known by its German name diocese of Rosenau, or Hungarian name diocese of Rozsnyó. In 1776 János Galgóczy was appointed first Bishop of Rosenau, but died before taking charge. His successor, Count Antal Révay (1776–80), caused the church to be restored and the high altar to be renovated. Among his successors were: János Scitovszky (1827–38), later Bishop of Funfkirchen and Archbishop of Gran; Béla Bartakovics (1845–50), later archbishop of Eger.

On 30 December 1977, it was taken from the former metropolitan, and became part of the newly created Slovak ecclesiastical province together with the metropolitan Diocese of Trnava.

The last change of metropolitan took place on 31 March 1995 when it was changed to the newly elevated Archdiocese of Košice.

List of bishops

Name	Start of the period	End of the period	Note
Antal Révay	19 April 1776	1780	Appointed as bishop of Nyitra
Antal Andrássy	17 December 1780	†12 November 1799
Ferenc Szányi	1801	†1810
László Esterházy	1810	† 11 September 1824.
Ferenc Lajcsák	1825	1827	Appointed as bishop of Nagyvárad
János Scitovszky	21 January 1828.	18 February 1839	Appointed as bishop of Pécs
Domonkos Zichy	1840	1842	Appointed as bishop of Veszprém
Béla Bartakovics	1844	1850	Appointed as archbishop of Eger
István Kollárcsik	1850	† 18 July 1869
György Schopper	17 January 1872.	†10 April 1895
János Ivánkovics	1896	12 October 1904	removed from position
Lajos Balás	17 October 1905	†18 September 1920.
Jüzsef Csárszky	1925	1925
Mihály Bubnics	1925	†22 February 1945
Róbert Pobožný	25 July 1949	† 9 June 1972
Eduard Kojnok	14 February 1990	27 December 2008
Vladimír Filo	27 December 2008	†18 August 2015
Stanislav Stolárik	21 March 2015

External links

• Official website (in Slovak)
• Diocese of Rožňava at catholic-hierarchy.org
• Diocese of Rožňava at newadvent.org

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Rosenau". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.