Editing Maribor (section)

== Demographics ==
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{{historical population|1948|62677|1953|70815|1961|82560|1971|96895|1981|106113|1991|103961|2002|93847|2011|95171|2021|97019|align=right|cols=1|source=SURS<ref>{{cite web |title=Censuses 1948–1991|url=https://www.stat.si/popis2011/eng/Cons4891.aspx?lang=eng|website=stat.si|publisher=[[Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Population census 1991 and 2002|url=https://pxweb.stat.si/SiStat/en/Podrocja/Index/100/population/?population-census-1991-and-2002-#507|website=stat.si|publisher=[[Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Population by sex and by age, municipalities and settlements, Slovenia, annually|url=https://pxweb.stat.si/SiStatData/pxweb/en/Data/-/05C5003S.px/table/tableViewLayout2/|website=stat.si|publisher=[[Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia]]}}</ref>}}

=== Catholic Church ===
[[File:MP stolnica.JPG|thumb|Maribor Cathedral]]
Maribor, previously in the [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Graz-Seckau|Diocese of Graz-Seckau]], became part of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Lavant|Diocese of Lavant]] on 1 June 1859, and the seat of its [[Prince-bishop|Prince-Bishop]]. The name of the diocese (after a river in [[Carinthia]]) was later changed to the Diocese of Maribor on 5 March 1962. It was elevated to an [[archdiocese]] by [[Pope Benedict XVI]] on 7 April 2006.

===Jewish community===
{{See also|History of the Jews in Slovenia|Maribor Synagogue}}
[[File:Synagogue in Maribor Slovenia.JPG|thumb|Maribor Synagogue]]
Jewish people living in Maribor were first mentioned in 1277. It is suggested that at that time there was already a Jewish quarter in the city. The Jewish ghetto was located in the southeastern part of the city and it comprised, at its peak, several main streets in the city centre including part of the main city square. The ghetto had a [[Maribor Synagogue|synagogue]], a Jewish cemetery and also a [[Talmud]] school. The Jewish community of Maribor was numerically at its apex around 1410. After 1450 the circumstances changed dramatically: increasing competition that coincided with an economic crisis dealt a severe blow to the economic activities that were crucial to their economic success. According to a decree issued by [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Maximilian&nbsp;I]] in 1496, Jews were forced to leave the city of Maribor. Restrictions on settlement and business for Jews remained in place until 1861.<ref>[http://www.jewishcommunity.si/jss/ENG-zgodovina.asp Jewish community of Slovenia]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128114733/http://www.jewishcommunity.si/jss/ENG-zgodovina.asp |date=January 28, 2010 }}</ref> From late spring 1941, after Lower Styria was annexed by the Third Reich, the Jews of Maribor were deported to concentration camps.