page_title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm
section_title: See of Stockholm
hierarchical_section_title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm / History / See of Stockholm
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Stockholms katolska domkyrka English: Saint Eric's Cathedral, Stockholm, (Catholic Cathedral) Polski: Katedra rzymsko-katolicka pw. św. Eryka w Sztokholmie
context_page_description: The Diocese of Stockholm is an exempt Latin Catholic ecclesiastical bishopric in Sweden and the only Roman Catholic diocese established in Sweden since the Protestant Reformation.
  Its cathedral episcopal see is Saint Erik's Cathedral, in Sweden's capital city, Stockholm. The former Catholic cathedrals in Linköping, Lund, Skara, Strängnäs, Uppsala, Västerås and Växjö have all been turned into Lutheran churches, like the World Heritage Site Nederluleå kyrka in Gammelstaden.
  The diocese of Stockholm, which belongs to no ecclesiastical province but forms an episcopal conference with its Nordic neighbours, includes 44 parishes and covers the entire country of Sweden.
context_section_description: When a new Catholic missionary jurisdiction was established, it was not at any of the ancient episcopal sees but an Apostolic prefecture of Sweden in 1781, created out of parts of the Nordic Missions comprising then Sweden and Finland.
  On 23 September 1783 the apostolic prefecture was promoted to the Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden, seated in the Swedish capital Stockholm, entitled to a titular bishop but apparently until 1862 without this actual rank. The Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden also included Finland between 1783 and 1809 (then passed to the Russian-imperial Mohilev Archdiocese) ...
  ... and the southern areas of Norway between 1834 and 7 August 1868 (thereafter Mission sui juris of Norway, later Apostolic Prefecture of Norway), whereas Norway north of the polar circle formed part of Sweden vicariate from 1834 to 1855, then becoming the Apostolic Prefecture of the North Pole.
  On 29 June 1953 the Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden was promoted to Diocese Stockholm, named after its see, while the same diocesan status was given in Norway to the new bishopric of Oslo.
  It enjoyed Papal visits by Pope John Paul II in June 1989 and by Pope Francis in October/November 2016.
caption: St Eric's Cathedral
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