Roman Catholic Diocese of Žilina

Diocese of Žilina Dioecesis Zilinensis Žilinská Diecéza
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Žilina
Coat of arms
Location
Country	Slovakia
Territory	NW of Trenčín and W of Žilina regions
Ecclesiastical province	Bratislava
Metropolitan	Žilina
Deaneries	12
Statistics
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 592,200 484,200 (81.8%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	14 February 2008
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Žilina
Patron saint	Saints Cyril and Methodius
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Tomáš Galis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Stanislav Zvolenský
Vicar General	Mons. ThLic. Marek Hriadel
Map
Map of the Diocese
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Žilina (Slovak: Žilinská Diecéza, Latin: Dioecesis Zilinensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in north-western Slovakia including parts of the Trenčín and Žilina regions. It has its seat in Žilina. The current bishop is Tomáš Galis.

The diocese was established on 14 February 2008 from the northern parts of the Diocese of Nitra, which shifted more to the south and from a small part of the Diocese of Banská Bystrica.

In 2018, for the diocese’s tenth anniversary, a Silver Cross started to be awarded.^[1]

The newest activities in 2022 from the newly established Caplan, the Roman Catholic priest Michal Tichy, were connected to another willingness project—The Wikimedia Foundation's interests. The priest allowed Wikipedians, from the first point, to publish the edited record of his Holy Mass freely to the whole world. His own homilies were firstly recorded 18. April 2022 in consideration of the Evangelium of Mathew 28, 8–15.

The diocese currently has 12 deaneries in the towns:

• Official site of the diocese

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