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7 unusual facts about Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg


Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz

The university was founded in 1972 and is operating on behalf of the Roman Catholic Dioceses Cologne, Limburg, Mainz, Speyer and Trier.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg

Wolfgang Rösch (Apostolic Administrator sede plena) (23 Oct 2013 appointed – )

Its cathedral church is St George's Cathedral Limburg an der Lahn.

From October 2013, the administrator of the diocese during the suspension of Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is Wolfgang Rösch.

The bishop Franz Kamphaus stepped down after Pope Benedict XVI had accepted his retirement on 2 February 2007.

On 23 October 2013, Tebartz van-Elst was suspended by Pope Francis as bishop of Limburg, and Wolfgang Rösch was named a new vicar general to administer the diocese in his absence.

Saint Justin's Church, Frankfurt-Höchst

St. Justin's was restored in the 1930s and 1980s and today belongs to the parish of St. Josef in the Frankfurt district of Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg.


Antonius Hilfrich

Antonius Hilfrich (also Anton Hilfrich) born 3 October 1873 in Lindenholzhausen, died 5 February 1947, was a German priest and Roman Catholic Bishop of Limburg, Germany.


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Holy Cross Church, Frankfurt-Bornheim

At November 11, 2012 the quinquennial anniversary of the centre of meditation was celebrated with the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg Dr. Thomas Löhr and a lecture by the journalist and theologian Klaus Hofmeister of the Hessischer Rundfunk.