Significant milestones in the history of the diocese

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  • Franco-roman emperor Carl the Great (768 – 814) divided missionary area of metropolitan seats in Aquileia and Salzburg in 811. Salzburg was entitled to the land north of the river Drava and Aquileia got the land south of the river, theoretically down the whole river from the source to the river mouth. This border remained as the border of the diocese almost 1000 years (until the reforms of Joseph in 1788).
  • In 1070 Salzburg formed Gurk diocese in Koroška.
  • In 1751, the patriarchy of Aquileia was abolished. Consequently, The Archdiocese of Gorica was formed for the Austrian part of the abolished patriarchy and The Archdiocese of Videm for the Venetian part.
  • Ignacij Franc Zimmermann (1824-1843), was the first Slovenian in the diocese seat of Lavant.
  • In 1846, Anton M. Slomšek (appointed on the 30th of May, hallowed on the 5th of July, inaugurated on the 19th of July) became the bishop of Lavant and one of his main far-reaching decisions was reorganisation of diocese borders and relocation of the seat.
  • On the ground of Tarnoczy’s memorandum, the new delimitation of dioceses in Koroška and Štajerska was carried out in the years from 1854 to 1859.
  • The bishop Mihael Napotnik (1889 – 1922) divided the diocese of Lavant into four deaneries: Maribor left shore, Maribor right shore, deanery by Savinja and deanery by Sava.
  • In 1924, The Holly See eliminated The Diocese of Lavant from Salzburg Metropolitan province and subordinated it directly to itself.
  • In 1926, the bishop Andrej Karlin (1923 – 1933) started the procedure or canonical process for beatification of his predecessor Anton M. Slomšek.
  • In 1960, the bishop Maksimiljsn Držečnik, Ph. D became the residential bishop of The Diocese of Lavant.
  • In 1964, The Diocese of Lavant was renamed into The Diocese of Maribor and Lavant. The area of the newdiocese included parishes that were under the management of bishop of Lavant from 1923.
  • In 1968, The Diocese of Maribor is included into Slovene Metropolitan province with the seat in Ljubljana.
  • In 1980, Franc Kramberger, Ph. D was appointed as the Bishop of Maribor.
  • In 1996, Pope John Paul II visited Maribor for the first time.
  • In 1999, Pope John Paul II visited Maribor for the second time and announced Anton Martin Slomšek as beatified.
  • In 2006, The Archdiocese of Maribor divided into three parts: Maribor, Celje and Murska Sobota and became archdiocese and metropolitan province, consequently bishop Kramberger became Archbishop Metropolitan.
  • The Archdiocese of Maribor reached an agreement, after long-term negotiations, with its institutional and no institutional creditors and with consensus of the Holly See in 2015. Because of the financial crash, the agreement presented the end of one of the most difficult periods in its existence. In the same time, it represented a new beginning in fulfilling the basic mission of the Church.