Archdiocese of Catania

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Archdiocese of Catania
Map of the Archdiocese of Catania
Basic data
Country Italy
Church region Sicily
Ecclesiastical province Catania
Diocesan bishop Salvatore Gristina
Vicar General Agatino Caruso
surface 1,332 km²
Parishes 155 ( AP2008 )
Residents 703.368 ( AP2008 )
Catholics 694,000 ( AP2008 )
proportion of 98.7%
Diocesan priest 257 ( AP2008 )
Religious priest 141 ( AP2008 )
Catholics per priest 1,744
Permanent deacons 33 ( AP2008 )
Friars 171 ( AP2008 )
Religious sisters 612 ( AP2008 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Italian
cathedral Sant'Agata in Catania
address Arcivescovado, Via Vittorio Emmanuele 159, 95131 Catania, Italia
Website www.diocesi.catania.it/
Suffragan dioceses Acireale
Caltagirone
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province of Catania
Development of membership numbers

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Catania ( Latin Archidioecesis Catanensis , Italian Arcidiocesi di Catania ) is an in Sicily situated diocese of the Roman Catholic Church . It is the Metropolitan Diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Catania in the church region of Sicily , its suffragan dioceses are the Diocese of Acireale and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Caltagirone .

history

Sant'Agata Cathedral

The diocese of Catania dates back to the 1st century AD. According to tradition, St. Berillus of Antioch became the first bishop of Catania in 42 AD. In the 3rd century the holy suffered here Agatha the martyrdom . A bishop Theodor from Catania was among the participants in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 .

After the Arab domination , the original Byzantine diocese was re-established as a Latin diocese on March 9, 1092 by Roger I and Pope Urban II , the first bishop was Ansgerius (1092–1124).

In the 19th century, the dioceses Acireale , Caltagirone , Nicosia and Piazza Armerina were established on the extensive previous territory of the diocese of Catania . On September 4, 1859, the diocese of Catania was exempted and made an archbishopric.

On December 2, 2000, the Archdiocese of Catania was raised to the rank of metropolitan diocese by John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Ad maiori consuluendum and received the dioceses of Acireale and Caltagirone as suffragan dioceses.

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Individual evidence

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