Diocese of Piazza Armerina

Diocese of Piazza Armerina
Basic data
Country	Italy
Church region	Sicily
Ecclesiastical province	Agrigento
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Agrigento
Diocesan bishop	Rosario Gisana
founding	1817
surface	2,003 km²
Parishes	75 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents	222,567 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics	215,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of	96.6%
Diocesan priest	99 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest	38 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest	1,569
Permanent deacons	7 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars	44 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters	113 (2016 / AP 2017 )
cathedral	Cattedrale di Maria SS. Delle Vittorie in Piazza Armerina
address	Vescovado, Via La Bella 3, 94015 Piazza Armerina (EN), Italia
Website	diocesipiazza.it
Ecclesiastical province

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Piazza Armerina ( lat. : Dioecesis Platiensis , ital. : Diocese of Piazza Armerina ) is on Sicily located diocese of the Roman Catholic Church , located in Piazza Armerina . It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Agrigento in the ecclesiastical region of Sicily and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Agrigento .

history

The diocese of Piazza Armerina was established on July 3, 1817 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Monreale . When the church province Monreale was dissolved on December 2, 2000, the diocese was assigned to the newly founded church province Agrigento .

See also

• Roman Catholic Church in Italy
• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Piazza Armerina  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the diocese (Italian)
• Diocese of Piazza Armerina and map of the ecclesiastical region of Sicily on the official website of the Catholic Church of Italy (Italian)
• Entry on the diocese of Piazza Armerina on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
• Diocese of Piazza Armerina on gcatholic.org (English)

Cathedral Cattedrale di Maria SS. Delle Vittorie