Diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca
Diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca | |
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Country | Italy |
Church region | Apulia |
Ecclesiastical province | Lecce |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Lecce |
Diocesan bishop | Vito Angiuli |
Episcopal Vicar | Napoleone Di Seclì |
founding | 13th Century |
surface | 475 km² |
Parishes | 43 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Residents | 125,700 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics | 122,800 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
proportion of | 97.7% |
Diocesan priest | 73 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious priest | 9 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,498 |
Permanent deacons | 7 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Friars | 10 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious sisters | 122 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Italian |
cathedral | Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta in Ugento |
Website | www.diocesiugento.org |
The Diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca ( Latin Dioecesis Uxentina-Sanctae Mariae Leucadensis , Italian Diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca ) is in Italy situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Ugento .
history
The diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca was established in the 13th century as the diocese of Ugento . On June 28, 1818, Pope Pius VII incorporated the territory of the dissolved diocese of Alessano into the diocese of Ugento with the Apostolic Constitution De utiliori . The diocese of Ugento was renamed on August 1, 1959 in the diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca .
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