The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zrenjanin (

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: ''Dioecesis Zrenjanensis'', sr, Zrenjaninska biskupija, script=Latn / , hu, Nagybecskereki egyházmegye, hr, Zrenjaninska biskupija, german: Bistum Zrenjanin) is an ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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. It is subject to the

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. The Diocese is centered in the city of

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbi ...

. László Német currently serves as bishop.

Territory

The Diocese of Zrenjanin encompasses the

n part of the

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region, which is mostly situated in the Autonomous Province of

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(the small part of the area administratively belongs to the City of

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). The diocese's cathedral is the Cathedral of Saint John of Nepomuk in Zrenjanin, which was built in 1868. The diocese is multi-ethnic and has members primarily from the sizable Hungarian and

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communities, as well as

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, and

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History

Until the end of

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, the territory of the present-day Diocese of Zrenjanin belonged to the

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. After the collapse of

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, region of Western Banat was incorporated into newly formed

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(later known as

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...

). In 1923, the ''Apostolic Administration of Yugoslav Banat'' was created. First apostolic administrator was

Ivan Rafael Rodić Archbishop Ivan Rafael Rodić, O.F.M. (also , it, Giovanni Raffaele Rodic; June 15, 1870 – May 10, 1954) was a Croatian Franciscan prelate, who served as the first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade-Smederevo between 1 ...

. In 1924, he was appointed first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Belgrade, continuing to serve also as apostolic administrator of Yugoslav Banat. Until the end of

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, the largest number of Roman Catholics in the territory of Yugoslav Banat was of German ethnicity. In 1986, apostolic administration was reorganized into "Diocese of Zrenjanin" and placed under metropolitan jurisdiction of Roman Catholic Archbishop of Belgrade.

Administrators and bishops

* 1923–1936

* 1936–1961

Josip Ujčić Josip Ujčić (10 February 1880 - 24 March 1964) was a Croatian (and later Yugoslavian) prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Belgrade, Apostolic Administrator of Banat, Council Father and a member of the Central Prep ...

* 1961–1971

Gabrijel Bukatko Gabrijel Bukatko (27 January 1913 – 19 October 1981) was a Serbian Roman Catholic prelate and Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was an Apostolic Administrator and Eparchial Bishop from 1950 to 1981 of the Eastern Catholic Eparchy of Križevc ...

* 1971–1988 Tamás Jung (bishop since 1986) * 1988–2007 László Huzsvár * 2007–present

László Nemet Ladislav Nemet ( sr-cyr, Ладислав Немет, hu, Német László; born September 7, 1956) is the Serbian Roman Catholic prelate who has been the Archbishop of Belgrade since November 2022. Before that, he was the Bishop of Zrenjanin bet ...

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Zrenjanin

Territory

History

Administrators and bishops

See also

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