Diocese of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli

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Diocese of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli
Basic data
Country Italy
Church region Tuscany
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Pisa
Diocesan bishop Giovanni Santucci
Emeritus diocesan bishop Eugenio Binini
Vicar General Lucio Filippi
founding 1988
surface 1,174 km²
Parishes 244 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 206,750 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 201,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 97.2%
Diocesan priest 103 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 22 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,608
Permanent deacons 28 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 26 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 182 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Italian
cathedral Cathedral of Santi Pietro e Francesco in Massa
Co-cathedral Santa Maria del Popolo in Pontremoli
Website massacarrara.chiesacattolica.it

The diocese of Massa Carrara Pontremoli ( lat. : Dioecesis Massensis-Apuana , ital. : Diocese of Massa Carrara Pontremoli ) is in Italy located diocese of the Roman Catholic Church , headquartered in Massa .

The diocese of Massa Carrara was founded on February 18, 1822 by Pope Pius VII with the Apostolic Constitution Singularis Romanorum Pontificum from areas of the diocese of Luni, Sarzana and Brugnato and subordinated to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Pisa as a suffragan diocese.

In 1939 the diocese was renamed Apuania and on September 30, 1986 in Massa diocese . On February 23, 1988 Pope John Paul II united the diocese of Massa-Carrara with the diocese of Pontremoli and gave it its current name.

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