Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela

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Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela
Map Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela
Basic data
Country Italy
Church region Sicily
Ecclesiastical province Messina
Diocesan bishop Giovanni Accolla
Auxiliary bishop Cesare Di Pietro
Emeritus diocesan bishop Calogero La Piana SDS
founding 1206
surface 1,521 km²
Vicariates 16 (12/15/2008)
Parishes 246 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 523,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 498,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 95.2%
Diocesan priest 225 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 127 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,415
Permanent deacons 82 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 177 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 390 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Italian
cathedral Maria Santissima Assunta in Messina
Co-cathedral Santissimo Salvatore in Messina ,
San Bartolomeo in Lipari ,
Maria Santissima Assunta in Santa Lucia del Mela
Website www.diocesimessina.it
Suffragan dioceses Nicosia
Patti
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province of Messina
Development of membership numbers

The Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela ( lat. : Archidioecesis Messanensis-Liparensis-Sanctae luciae , ital. : Arcidiocesi di Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela ) is on Sicily located Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy with Headquarters in Messina .

It is the metropolitan bishopric of the ecclesiastical province of Messina in the ecclesiastical region of Sicily ; their suffragan dioceses are the Diocese of Nicosia and the Diocese of Patti .

history

According to tradition, a bishop named Bacchilus is said to have been the first bishop of Messina in the 1st century. The first written name of a bishop of Messina is Eucarpus (502). At later councils the bishops of Messina are mentioned as participants; B. Gaudiosus in 787 at the Second Council of Nicaea and Gregory in 868 at the Fourth Council of Constantinople .

After the Arab domination , Roger I established a new diocese in Troina in 1081 , the seat of which was transferred to Messina in 1096. The first bishop of the newly established diocese was Robert.

In 1131 the diocese of Messina was raised to an archbishopric and metropolitan seat by the antipope Anaklet II . As a suffragan diocese it received the diocese of Catania and the dioceses of Cefalù and Lipari-Patti, established in the same year . This survey was initially not recognized by Rome and only in 1166 by Pope Alexander III. performed again.

Also in 1131 the Archimandrite of San Salvatore was founded, which comprised a group of Byzantine monasteries. In 1635 it was established as a diocese by Pope Urban VIII .

In the 19th century, the dioceses of Nicosia (1817) and Acireale (1844) were established from parts of the territory of the Archdiocese of Messina , another part was transferred to the Diocese of Patti (1827). In 1883 the Archimandrite of San Salvatore was united with the Archdiocese of Messina.

On September 30, 1986, the Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela was formed by merging the Archdiocese of Messina, the Diocese of Lipari and the Prelature of Santa Lucia del Mela .

See also

Web links

Commons : Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Messina Cathedral
Co-cathedral in Lipari
Santa Lucia di Mela co-cathedral