Archdiocese of Gaeta

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Archdiocese of Gaeta
Map of the Archdiocese of Gaeta
Basic data
Country Italy
Church region Lazio
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Diocesan bishop Luigi Vari
Emeritus diocesan bishop Bernardo Fabio D'Onorio OSB
surface 603 km²
Parishes 57 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 162,457 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 157,457 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 96.9%
Diocesan priest 54 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 18 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 2,187
Permanent deacons 26 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 21 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 205 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Italian
cathedral Santi Erasmo e Marciano e di Santa Maria Assunta
Website www.arcidiocesigaeta.it

The Archdiocese of Gaeta ( Latin : Archidioecesis Caietana , Italian : Arcidiocesi di Gaeta ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy with its seat in Gaeta , Lazio , south of Rome . The patrons of the archdiocese are Saints Erasmus of Antioch and Marcian of Syracuse , celebrated on June 2nd.

territory

Map of the Archdiocese
Cathedral of Santi Erasmo e Marciano e di Santa Maria Assunta

The territory of the archdiocese includes some parishes in the province of Latina ( Campodimele , Castelforte , Fondi , Formia , Gaeta , Itri , Lenola , Minturno , Monte San Biagio , Santi Cosma e Damiano , Sperlonga , Spigno Saturnia ), including the Pontine Islands ( Ponza and Ventotene ) and municipalities of the province of Frosinone ( Ausonia , Coreno Ausonio and Pastena ). The 57 parishes are divided into four deaneries: Fondi, Formia, Gaeta and Minturno.

history

The founding of the diocese coincides with the transfer of the diocese of Formia to Gaeta at the time of the abandonment of the city after a siege of Formia by the Saracens around 859. In the tenth century, the diocese of Gaeta with the diocese of Traetto (the old diocese of Minturno, which was founded around 590 merged with the Diocese of Formia and restored during the pontificate of Pope Leo III ).

In 1818 it was united with the dissolved diocese of Fondi after a concordat between Pope Pius VII and King of the Two Sicilies Ferdinand I. On December 31, 1848, it was elevated to the status of an archbishopric, immediately subordinate to the Holy See .

cathedral

The cathedral Santi Erasmo e Marciano e di Santa Maria Assunta by Pope Paschal II. , Consecrated Bishop Alberto on 22 January, probably in 1106 (but the year is uncertain and varies according to Ferdinando Ughelli or Lodovico Antonio Muratori or Paul Fridolin Kehr between 1099 and 1110).

statistics

year population priest Permanent
deacons 		Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics per priest male Female
1969 129,698 130,800 99.2 116 80 36 1,118 41 322 50
1980 136,361 143,630 94.9 110 66 44 1,239 48 298 54
1990 149,000 152,000 98.0 90 56 34 1,655 1 36 219 57
2000 155,000 158,100 98.0 87 58 29 1,781 19th 32 225 57
2001 151.200 159.153 95.0 81 53 28 1,866 19th 31 225 57
2004 159.175 159,315 99.9 82 55 27 1.941 18th 30th 229 57
2006 152,350 160,150 95.1 81 54 27 1,880 18th 30th 216 57
2013 149,400 163,000 91.7 71 54 17th 1,880 25th 20th 155 57

See also

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