Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino
Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino | |
Basic data | |
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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 | |
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.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Italy: Orthodox get church , Vatican Radio , February 16, 2011