Roman Catholic Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam


The Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. As one of the seven suffragans in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht, the diocesan territory comprises the north west of the Netherlands, including the cities of Haarlem and Amsterdam.
Monsignor Jozef Marianus Punt has been the Bishop of the Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam since 2001.

History

The diocese was founded on 12 May 1559, on territory canonically split off from the Diocese of Utrecht, which was simultaneously promoted to archbishopric and became its Metropolitan. In 1592 it was suppressed, and its territory was immediately included in the new Dutch Mission sui iuris 'Batavia', soon promoted an Apostolic vicariate.
In 1833, the diocese was restored as Apostolic Administration of Haarlem, which was on 4 March 1853 promoted as Diocese of Haarlem.
On 16 July 1955, it lost territories, to the existing Diocese of Breda, and to establish the Diocese of Groningen and Diocese of Rotterdam.
In 2001, monsignor Jozef Marianus Punt became the Bishop of the Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam.
On 7 October 2008, it was renamed as Diocese of Haarlem–Amsterdam.

Special churches

The cathedral episcopal see of the Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam is the Cathedral of Saint Bavo, a minor basilica in Haarlem, which city also has two former cathedrals: Saint Joseph Church and Saint Bavo Church. Other minor basilicas in the diocese are Basilica of Saint John the Baptist in Laren and Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Amsterdam, both in the province of North Holland.

Statistics

In 2013, the diocese pastorally served 462,000 Catholics on 2,912 km² in 145 parishes, with 194 priests, 54 deacons, 557 lay religious.

Ordinaries

;Suffragan Bishops of Haarlem
;Suffragan Bishops of Haarlem