Archdiocese of Palermo

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Archdiocese of Palermo
Map of the Archdiocese of Palermo
Basic data
Country Italy
Church region Sicily
Ecclesiastical province Palermo
Diocesan bishop Corrado Lorefice
Emeritus diocesan bishop Salvatore Cardinal De Giorgi
Paolo Cardinal Romeo
surface 1,366 km²
Parishes 174 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 933.501 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 890,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 95.3%
Diocesan priest 230 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 250 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,854
Permanent deacons 41 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 307 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 940 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Italian
cathedral Maria Santissima Assunta in Palermo
address Arcivescovile Curia, Corso Vittorio Emmanuele 461, 90134 Palermo, Italia
Website www.arcidiocesi.palermo.it
Suffragan dioceses Cefalù
Mazara del Vallo
Monreale
Trapani
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province of Palermo
Development of membership numbers

The Archbishopric of Palermo ( Latin : Archidioecesis Panormitana , Italian : Arcidiocesi di Palermo ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church located in Sicily . It is the metropolitan diocese of the ecclesiastical province of Palermo in the Church Region of Sicily , its suffragan dioceses are the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monreale , the Diocese of Cefalu , the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trapani .

history

Maria Santissima Assunta

The diocese of Palermo traces its origins back to the 1st century AD. There is early Christian evidence, for example, in the catacomb at the Porta Ossuna in Palermo .

The diocese of Palermo was the only diocese in Sicily that survived the Arab domination in Sicily . After the Norman conquest of Sicily , the Greek Archbishop Nicodemus, who officiated in the Church of San Ciriaco, returned to the possession of the cathedral, which had been converted into a mosque, in 1072. 1083 is documented as the successor of the Latins Alcherius in the previously Byzantine diocese. Palermo received suffragans for the first time in 1131 from Anaclet II , although the document of Gregory VII already mentions it in general terms. Since Duke Robert Guiskard had secured part of the city rulership in Palermo , the diocese was initially able to maintain a relatively independent position vis-à-vis Roger I. In 1130 Anaclet II assigned Archbishop Peter the consecration of three bishops in Sicily , which was revoked by Innocent II . Hadrian IV then assigned Agrigento , Mazara and Malta as suffragans in 1156 .

As a result, Wilhelm II founded the Archdiocese of Monreale in 1176 as a political counterweight at the gates of Palermo.

The Archdiocese of Palermo was the most populous diocese in Sicily, but never had a particularly large territory. In the 19th century part of the territory of the diocese of Agrigento was added to it. In 1937 it ceded the Byzantine parish of San Nicolò dei Greci (at the Church of La Martorana in Palermo) and some parishes to the newly founded Eparchy Piana degli Albanesi .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leo Santifaller , sources and research on documents and chancellery of Pope Gregory VII. 1st part. Sources . Città del Vaticano 1957, 252-254 No. 212 [Studi e testi 190]. Lat. text
  2. ↑ Italia Pontificia sive Repertorium privilegiorum et litterarum a Romanis pontificibus ante annum MCLXXXXVIII Italiae ecclesiis, monasteriis, civitatibus singulisque personis concessorum, t. X: Calabria - Insulae , ed. Dieter Girgensohn , Zurich 1975, p. 230 No. 25
  3. ↑ Italia Pontificia sive Repertorium privilegiorum et litterarum a Romanis pontificibus ante annum MCLXXXXVIII Italiae ecclesiis, monasteriis, civitatibus singulisque personis concessorum, t. X: Calabria - Insulae , ed.Dieter Girgensohn, Zurich 1975, p. 231 No. 27

See also

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