Archdiocese of Agrigento

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Archdiocese of Agrigento
Map of the Archdiocese of Agrigento
Basic data
Country Italy
Church region Sicily
Ecclesiastical province Agrigento
Diocesan bishop Francesco Cardinal Montenegro
Coadjutor Alessandro Damiano (appointed)
Emeritus diocesan bishop Carmelo Ferraro
Vicar General Melchiorre Vutera
surface 3,042 km²
Parishes 194 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Residents 431,875 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Catholics 415,518 (2018 / AP 2019 )
proportion of 96.2%
Diocesan priest 210 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Religious priest 34 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Catholics per priest 1,703
Permanent deacons 39 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Friars 44 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Religious sisters 255 (2018 / AP 2019 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Italian
cathedral San Gerlando in Agrigento
address Arcivescovado, Via Duomo 96, 92100 Agrigento, Italia
Website www.diocesiag.it/
Suffragan dioceses Caltanissetta
Piazza Armerina
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province of Agrigento
Development of membership numbers

The Archdiocese of Agrigento ( Latin : Archidioecesis Agrigentina , Italian : Arcidiocesi di Agrigento ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church located in Sicily . It is the metropolitan bishopric of the ecclesiastical province of Agrigento in the ecclesiastical region of Sicily ; their suffragan dioceses are the diocese of Caltanissetta and the diocese of Piazza Armerina .

history

San Gerlando Cathedral

According to tradition, Libertinus was in the 3rd – 4th centuries. Century AD the first bishop of Agrigento. According to a theory by the archaeologist Ernesto De Miro , the basilicula in the Archaeological Sites of Agrigento is a memorial to Saints Libertinus and Pellegrinus with the tombs of these two martyrs .

A Greek commentary on the book of Ekklesiastes has come down to us from a bishop Gregory of Agrigento . Another bishop named Gregory was among the participants in the Third Council of Constantinople from 680–681 , and a bishop John 787 was among those attending the Second Council of Nicaea .

After Arab domination , the original Byzantine diocese was re-established as a Latin diocese in the 12th century. The first bishop was St. Gerlandus of Besançon (c. 1030–1100), the patron saint of the diocese, to whom the Cathedral of Agrigento is also dedicated. At that time, the territory of the diocese extended to the north coast of Sicily ( Termini Imerese ).

In 1844, when the diocese borders were reorganized, parts of the territory of the diocese of Agrigento were assigned to the archbishoprics of Palermo and Monreale , and the diocese of Caltanissetta was established from another part.

On December 2, 2000, with the Apostolic Constitution Ad maiori consulendum, the ecclesiastical province of Monreale , to which the diocese of Agrigento belonged until then, was dissolved. The diocese of Agrigento became an archbishopric and metropolitan seat with the suffragan dioceses Caltanissetta and Piazza Armerina .

See also

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Ad maiori consulendum , AAS 93 (2001), n.3, p. 128f (Latin).