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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

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.

Contents 1 History 2 Diocese Arrangement 2.1 Deaneries 3 Bishops 4 Cathedrals 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Diocese Arrangement

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

[edit] 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

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

[edit] Bishops

Name	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

[edit] Cathedrals

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

[edit] See also

List of Bishops of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

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

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