Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto

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Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto
Basic data
Country Italy
Church region Abruzzo-Molise
Diocesan bishop Bruno Forte
founding September 30, 1986
surface 2,539 km²
Parishes 144 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 333,454 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 307,779 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 92.3%
Diocesan priest 136 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 82 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,412
Permanent deacons 21 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 95 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 302 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Italian
cathedral San Tomaso Apostolo (San Giustino) in Chieti
Co-cathedral San Giuseppe in Vasto
address Piazza GG Valignani 4
66100 Chieti
Italia
Website www.chieti.chiesacattolica.it
Suffragan dioceses Archdiocese of Lanciano-Ortona
Development of membership numbers

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto ( lat. Archidioecesis Theatina-Vastensis , ital. Arcidiocesi di Chieti-Vasto ) is in Italy located Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Chieti .

As early as the 6th century there was a bishopric in Chieti. On July 1, 1526, Pope Clement VII raised the diocese of Chieti to the Metropolitan Archbishopric with the Bull Super Universas and subordinated the dioceses of Penne , Atri and Lanciano as suffragan dioceses to him.

With the Apostolic Constitution Fructuosae ecclesiae of March 2nd, 1982 Pope John Paul II subordinated the Archdiocese of Chieti to the Archdiocese of Lanciano-Ortona as a suffragan. On September 30, 1986, by a decree of the Congregation for Bishops, the Archdiocese of Chieti was completely united with the Diocese of Vasto, after the two dioceses had previously been headed by a bishop in personal union.

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