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Basic Information
Bishop:	Dr. Gebhard Fürst
Auxiliary bishop:	Dr. Johannes Kreidler Thomas Maria Renz
Vicar general:	Dr. Clemens Stroppel
Archdiocese:	Freiburg
Deaconates:	45
Parishes:	1,039
Area:	19,514 km²
Population:	5,000,000 (31 Dec. 2002)
Catholics:	2,020,453
Percentage:	40,4%
Website:	www.drs.de

Bischop Dr. Gebhard Fürst 2004 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt

The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart (lat: Dioecesis Rottenburgensis-Stutgardiensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Germany. The diocese is located in the Württemberg part of the German State of Baden-Württemberg.

History

The Diocese of Rottenburg was established in 1821 through the Papal Bull De salute animarum. With the enthronement of the first bishop, Johann Baptist von Keller, on May 20, 1828, the formation of the diocese was complete. In 1978, the diocese changed its name to the current form of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

Diocese Arrangement

The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is a suffragan diocese of Freiburg and is made up of 45 deaneries containing 1,039 parishes:

Deaneries

• Aalen
• Backnang
• Balingen
• Biberach
• Böblingen
• Calw
• Ehingen
• Ellwangen
• Esslingen-Nürtingen
• Freudenstadt
• Friedrichshafen
• Geislingen
• Göppingen
• Heidenheim
• Heilbronn
• Hohenlohe
• Laupheim
• Leutkirch
• Ludwigsburg
• Mergentheim
• Mühlacker
• Neckarsulm
• Neresheim
• Oberndorf
• Ochsenhausen
• Ravensburg
• Reutlingen
• Riedlingen
• Rottenburg am Neckar
• Rottweil
• Saulgau
• Schwäbisch Gmünd
• Schwäbisch Hall
• Spaichingen

St. Martin's Cathedral, Rottenburg

• Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
• Stuttgart-Filder
• Stuttgart-Mitte
• Stuttgart-Nord
• Tuttlingen
• Ulm
• Waiblingen
• Waldsee
• Wangen
• Zwiefalten

Bishops

Cathedrals

• St. Martin's Cathedral in Rottenburg
• Co-cathedral of St. Eberhard in Stuttgart

St. Eberhard's Cathedral, Stuttgart

See also

List of Bishops of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

References

• The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent.

External links

• (German) Diocesan Website
•  "Rottenburg". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Rottenburg.