Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

[[Image:Bischof-fuerst-cannstatt-2004.jpg|thumb|175px|Bishop [[Gebhard Fürst]] 2004 in [[Stuttgart#City districts|Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt]]]] The '''Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart''' ([[Latin language|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 [[Germany|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'''. ==Diocesan arrangement== The '''Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart''' is a [[bishop#Bishops in Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches|suffragan]] diocese of [[Archdiocese of Freiburg|Freiburg]] and is made up of 45 [[deaneries]] containing 1,039 parishes: ===Deaneries=== {{multicol}} *[[Aalen]] *[[Backnang]] *[[Balingen]] *[[Biberach]] *[[Böblingen]] *[[Calw]] *[[Ehingen]] *[[Ellwangen]] *[[Esslingen]]-[[Nürtingen]] *[[Freudenstadt]] *[[Friedrichshafen]] *[[Geislingen]] *[[Göppingen]] *[[Heidenheim an der Brenz|Heidenheim]] *[[Heilbronn]] *[[Hohenlohe]] *[[Laupheim]] *[[Leutkirch]] *[[Ludwigsburg]] *[[Mergentheim]] *[[Mühlacker]] {{multicol-break}} *[[Neckarsulm]] *[[Neresheim]] *[[Oberndorf]] *[[Ochsenhausen]] *[[Ravensburg]] *[[Reutlingen]] *[[Riedlingen]] *[[Rottenburg am Neckar]] *[[Rottweil]] *[[Saulgau]] *[[Schwäbisch Gmünd]] *[[Schwäbisch Hall]] *[[Spaichingen]] *[[Stuttgart]]-[[Bad Cannstatt]] *Stuttgart-Filder *Stuttgart-Mitte *Stuttgart-Nord *[[Tuttlingen]] *[[Ulm]] *[[Waiblingen]] *[[Waldsee]] *[[Wangen]] *[[Zwiefalten]] {{multicol-end}} [[Image:Rottenburgerdom.jpg|thumb|200px|right|St. Martin's Cathedral, Rottenburg]] == Bishops == {| class="wikitable" |+ !bgcolor="silver"|Name !bgcolor="silver"|Term in office |- |[[Johann Baptist von Keller]] || 28 Jan 1828 – 17 Oct 1845 |- |[[Josef von Lipp]] || 14 Jun 1847 – 3 May 1869 |- |[[Karl Joseph von Hefele]] || 17 Jun 1869 – 5 Jun 1893 |- |[[Wilhelm von Reiser]] || 5 Jun 1893 – 11 May 1898 |- |[[Franz Xaver von Linsenmann]] || 20 Jul 1898 – 21 Sep 1898 |- |[[Paul Wilhelm Keppler]] || 11 Nov 1898 – 16 Jul 1926 |- |[[Johannes Baptista Sproll]] || 29 Mar 1927 – 4 Mar 1949 |- |[[Carl Joseph Leiprecht]] || 4 Jul 1949 – 4 Jun 1974 |- |[[Georg Moser]] || 12 Mar 1975 – 9 May 1988 |- |[[Walter Kasper]] || 17 Apr 1989 – 31 May 1999 |- |[[Gebhard Fürst]] || since 7 Jul 2000 |} ==Cathedrals== *St. Martin's Cathedral in [[Rottenburg am Neckar|Rottenburg]] *[[Co-cathedral]] of St. Eberhard in [[Stuttgart]] [[Image:Stuttgart-st eberhard.jpg|thumb|150px|left|St. Eberhard's Cathedral, Stuttgart]] ==External links== [http://www.drs.de/ Diocesan website] {{Dioceses in Germany}} {{coord missing|Germany}}