Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace

Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace
Basic data
Country	Italy
Church region	Calabria
Diocesan bishop	Vincenzo Bertolone SDP
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Antonio Cantisani
Vicar General	Raffaele Facciolo
founding	1121
surface	1,806 km²
Parishes	136 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents	258,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics	235,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of	91.1%
Diocesan priest	164 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest	38 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest	1,163
Permanent deacons	26 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars	57 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters	122 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Italian
cathedral	Santa Maria Assunta in Catanzaro
Co-cathedral	Santa Maria Assunta in Squillace
address	Via dell'Arcivescovado 13 88100 Catanzaro Italia
Website	www.diocesiczsq.it
Suffragan dioceses	Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina Diocese of Lamezia Terme
Ecclesiastical province

Development of membership numbers

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace ( Latin Archidioecesis Catacensis-Squillacensis , Italian Arcidiocesi di Catanzaro-Squillace ) is in Italy located Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Catanzaro .

history

The archbishopric was created in its current structure through the unification of the previously independent diocese of Squillace , founded in the 4th century by Pope John Paul II , with the archdiocese of Catanzaro , which was founded in 1121 as the diocese of Catanzaro and on June 5, 1927 by Pope Pius XI. had been raised to the archbishopric without a metropolitan seat. On January 30, 2001, John Paul II raised it with the Apostolic Constitution Maiori Christifidelium to the Metropolitan Archdiocese and assigned the Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina and the Diocese of Lamezia Terme as suffragan dioceses .

See also

• Roman Catholic Church in Italy

Web links

Commons : Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Maiori Christifidelium , AAS 93 (2001), n.6, p. 337f.

Catanzaro Cathedral

Co-cathedral Squillace