Catholic Church in Croatia

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Catholic Church in Croatia
Croatian: Katolička crkva u Hrvatskoj
Đakovo Cathedral
Type	National polity
Orientation	Latin and Greek Catholic
Governance	Episcopal
Pope	Pope Francis
Apostolic Nuncio	Giorgio Lingua
Region	Croatia
Language	Croatian, Latin
Headquarters	Zagreb
Founder	Pope John IV and Abbot Martin, according to tradition
Origin	c. 65: in Roman Illyricum c. 640: Croatian Christianity
Members	3,057,586 (2021)
Ministers	c. 3800[1]
Official website	Croatian Bishops' Conference

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Ordinaries Pope Francis Archbishops Dražen Kutleša Đuro Hranić Ivan Devčić Želimir Puljić Milan Zgrablić Bishops Milan Stipić Bože Radoš Vlado Košić Vjekoslav Huzjak Antun Škvorčević Đuro Gašparović Zdenko Križić Ivica Petanjak Ivan Štironja Roko Glasnović Ranko Vidović Rrok Gjonlleshaj Tomislav Rogić Jure Bogdan
Canonized people Saints St. Leopold Mandić St. Nicholas Tavelic Beatified bl. Aloysius Stepinac bl. Marija Petković
Cathedrals Zagreb Cathedral Đakovo Cathedral Cathedral of Saint Domnius Šibenik Cathedral Zadar Cathedral Trogir Cathedral
Churches & shrines St. Michael's Church Euphrasian Basilica Church of Saint Chrysogonus Shrines Marija Bistrica Our Lady of Sinj
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The Catholic Church in Croatia (Croatian: Katolička crkva u Hrvatskoj) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church that is under the spiritual leadership of the Pope. The Latin Church in Croatia is administered by the Croatian Bishops' Conference centered in Zagreb, and it comprises five archdioceses, 13 dioceses and one military ordinariate. Dražen Kutleša is the Archbishop of Zagreb.

A 2011 census estimated that there were 3.7 million baptized Latin Catholics and about 20,000 baptized Eastern Catholics of the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia in Croatia, comprising 86.3% of the population. As of 2017^[update], weekly church attendance was relatively high compared to other Catholic nations in Europe, at around 27%.^[2] A 2021 Croatian census showed that 79% of the population is Catholic and 3.3% is Serbian Orthodox.^[3]

The national sanctuary of Croatia is in Marija Bistrica, while the country's patron is Saint Joseph: the Croatian Parliament unanimously declared him to be the national patron in 1687.^[4]