Archdiocese of L'Aquila

Archdiocese of L'Aquila
Basic data
Country	Italy
Church region	Abruzzo-Molise
Diocesan bishop	Giuseppe Cardinal Petrocchi
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Giuseppe Molinari
Vicar General	Alfredo Cantalini
founding	13th Century
surface	1,516 km²
Parishes	147 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Residents	111,360 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Catholics	110,000 (December 31, 2007 / AP2008 )
proportion of	98.8%
Diocesan priest	147 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Religious priest	34 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Catholics per priest	608
Permanent deacons	5 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Friars	48 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Religious sisters	287 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Italian
cathedral	Santi Massimo e Giorgio
Website	www.laquila.chiesacattolica.it
Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Avezzano Diocese of Sulmona-Valva

Development of membership numbers

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of L'Aquila ( lat. : Archidioecesis Aquilanus , ital. : Arcidiocesi dell'Aquila ) is in Italy located Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in L'Aquila .

The diocese of L'Aquila was established on February 20, 1257 and raised to an archdiocese without a metropolitan seat on January 19, 1876. On August 15, 1972, Pope Paul VI raised with the Apostolic Constitution Cum cognitum the Archdiocese of L'Aquila to the Metropolitan Archdiocese and subordinated to him the dioceses of Avezzano and Sulmona-Valva as suffragan dioceses .

See also

• List of the Archbishops of L'Aquila
• Roman Catholic Church in Italy

Web links

• Entry for the Archdiocese of L'Aquila on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Archdiocese of L'Aquila on Gcatholic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Cum cognitum , AAS 64 (1972), n.10, pp. 665f.

Cathedral of Santi Massimo e Giorgio in L'Aquila