Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg

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Archdiocese of Hamburg Archidioecesis Hamburgensis Erzbistum Hamburg
Cathedral of Our Lady, Hamburg
Location
Country	Germany
Ecclesiastical province	Hamburg
Deaneries	17
Statistics
Area	32,493 km2 (12,546 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2019) 5,871,102 398,425 (6.8%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	23 July 1973 (As Apostolic Administration of Schwerin) 24 October 1994 (As Archdiocese of Hamburg)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady, Hamburg
Patron saint	St Ansgar
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Stefan Heße
Suffragans	Diocese of Hildesheim Diocese of Osnabrück
Auxiliary Bishops	Rev. Msgr. Horst Eberlein (Auxiliary Bishop-elect; Titular Bishop-elect of Tisedi; appointed by Pope Francis Feb. 9 '17)
Vicar General	Rev. Ansgar Thim
Bishops emeritus	Werner Thissen
Map
Website
erzbistum-hamburg.de

The Archdiocese of Hamburg (Lat. Archidioecesis Hamburgensis; Ger. Erzbistum Hamburg) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the north of Germany and covers the Federal States of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein as well as the Mecklenburgian part of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In terms of surface area it is the largest in Germany. It is characterized by its situation as a diocese in the Diaspora. Seat of the archbishop is the New St. Mary's Cathedral in Sankt Georg, Hamburg. On January 26, 2015 Stefan Heße, Generalvikar of the Archdiocese of Cologne, was appointed Archbishop of Hamburg.^[1]