Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne

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Archdiocese of Melbourne Archidioecesis Melburnensis
St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
Location
Country	Australia
Territory	Melbourne
Ecclesiastical province	Melbourne
Coordinates	37°48′32″S 144°58′46″E / 37.80889°S 144.97944°E / -37.80889; 144.97944
Statistics
Area	27,194 km2 (10,500 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2020) 4,810,000 1,264,150 ( 26.3%)
Parishes	216
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	31 March 1874
Cathedral	St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
Patron saint	Saint Patrick
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Peter Comensoli
Auxiliary Bishops	Martin Ashe Terence Curtin Anthony Ireland[1]
Bishops emeritus	Denis Hart Peter John Elliott
Map
Website
www.melbournecatholic.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is a Latin Rite metropolitan archdiocese in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Erected initially in 1847 as the Diocese of Melbourne, a suffragan diocese of Archdiocese of Sydney, the diocese was elevated in 1874 as an archdiocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Melbourne and is the metropolitan for the suffragan dioceses of Sale, Sandhurst, Ballarat, and the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ss Peter and Paul. The Archdiocese of Hobart is attached to the archdiocese for administrative purposes. St Patrick's Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Melbourne, currently Peter Comensoli, who succeeded Denis Hart on 1 August 2018.

According to the 2006 Commonwealth Census figures, there were 4,932,423 people within the province. Of these, 1,349,828 were Catholic, about 28% of the population.^[2]