Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn

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Metropolitan Archdiocese of Paderborn Archidioecesis Metropolitae Paderbornensis Metropolitanerzbistum Paderborn
Paderborn Cathedral
Location
Country	Germany
Territory	Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia
Ecclesiastical province	Paderborn
Statistics
Area	14,750 km2 (5,700 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 4,856,342 1,596,405 (32.9%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	799
Cathedral	Paderborn Cathedral
Patron saint	St. Kilian St. Liborius
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Udo Marcus Bentz
Auxiliary Bishops	Matthias König, Josef Holtkotte
Bishops emeritus	Hans-Josef Becker Manfred Grothe Hubert Berenbrinker
Map
Website
erzbistum-paderborn.de

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Paderborn (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Paderbornensis) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Germany; its seat is Paderborn.^[1][2] It was a diocese from its foundation in 799 until 1802, and again from 1821 until 1930. In 1930, it was promoted to an archdiocese. From 1281 until 1802, the Bishopric of Paderborn (German: Fürstbistum Paderborn) was also a state of the Holy Roman Empire.