Tags: Clerical Administrative Region, Diocese.
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of İzmir (Latin: Archidioecesis Smyrnensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Turkey. It was erected by Pope Pius VII on March 18 1818 without any suffragan sees that usually accompany a metropolitan archdiocese.The archdiocese’s motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is St. John’s Cathedral.
