Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg

Diocese of Limburg Dioecesis Limburgensis Bistum Limburg
St George's Cathedral, Limburg
Coat of arms
Location
Country	Germany
Ecclesiastical province	Cologne
Metropolitan	Limburg, Hesse
Coordinates	50°23′20″N 8°04′00″E / 50.38889°N 8.06667°E / 50.38889; 8.06667
Statistics
Area	6,182 km2 (2,387 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 2,369,000 648,619 (27.4%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	16 August 1821
Cathedral	St George's Cathedral
Patron saint	St. George
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Georg Bätzing
Metropolitan Archbishop	Rainer Maria Woelki
Auxiliary Bishops	Thomas Löhr
Apostolic Administrator	Manfred Grothe
Vicar General	Wolfgang Rösch
Bishops emeritus	Franz Kamphaus Bishop Emeritus (1982–2007) Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst Bishop Emeritus (2008–2014) Gerhard Pieschl Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus (1977–2009)
Map
Website
bistumlimburg.de

The Diocese of Limburg (Latin: Dioecesis Limburgensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Cologne, with metropolitan see being the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Its territory encompasses parts of the States of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. Its cathedral church is St George's Cathedral Limburg an der Lahn. The diocese's largest church is Frankfurt Cathedral, St. Bartholomew.

From October 2013, the administrator of the diocese during the suspension of Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is Wolfgang Rösch. The Bishop later resigned. The Cathedral Chapter elected and on 1 July 2016, Pope Francis appointed the Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier, Germany, Georg Bätzing, to serve as the next Bishop of the Diocese of Limburg, succeeding Bishop Tebartz-van Elst.^[1] He was consecrated by the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Woelki, on 18 September 2016.

At the end of 2008 the diocese had 2,386,000 inhabitants. About 28 per cent of them were Catholics.