Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino

Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino
Basic data
Country	Italy
Church region	Tuscany
Diocesan bishop	Augusto Paolo Lojudice
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Gaetano Bonicelli Antonio Buoncristiani
founding	1462
surface	2,265 km²
Parishes	156 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents	183,154 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics	164,838 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of	90%
Diocesan priest	78 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest	44 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest	1,351
Permanent deacons	7 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Friars	48 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters	199 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Italian
cathedral	Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Co-cathedral	Santi Alberto e Marziale in Colle di Val d'Elsa San Salvatore in Montalcino
Website	www.arcidiocesi.siena.it
Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Grosseto Diocese of Massa Marittima-Piombino Diocese of Montepulciano-Chiusi-Pienza
Ecclesiastical province

Development of membership numbers

The Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino ( Latin Archidioecesis Senensis-Collensis-Ilcinensis , Italian Arcidiocesi di Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy , located in the church region of Tuscany based in Siena .

The diocese of Siena was founded in the 4th century and on April 23, 1459, Pope Pius II raised it to an archbishopric with the seat of a metropolitan . On September 30, 1986, Pope John Paul II united it with the diocese of Colle di Val d'Elsa and the diocese of Montalcino and renamed it in its current form.

In 2010 the Archdiocese of Siena donated a church to the Orthodox Community in Siena so that they can carry out their Byzantine liturgical celebrations there.

Co-cathedral in Colle di Val d'Elsa

Siena, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta

San Salvatore co- cathedral in Montalcino

See also

• List of Archbishops of Siena
• List of Italian bishoprics

Individual evidence

1. ^ Italy: Orthodox get church , Vatican Radio , February 16, 2011

Web links

Commons : Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino on catholic-hierarchy.org