High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Izmir (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. The current Archbishop of Izmir is His Excellency Ruggero Franceschini, OFM Cap, having been appointed by Pope John Paul II on October 11, 2004.

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