Archdiocese of Syracuse
Archdiocese of Syracuse | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Italy |
Church region | Sicily |
Ecclesiastical province | Syracuse |
Diocesan bishop | Francesco Lomanto (appointed) |
Emeritus diocesan bishop |
Giuseppe Costanzo Salvatore Pappalardo |
surface | 1,341 km² |
Vicariates | 4 (12/15/2008) |
Parishes | 76 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Residents | 297,313 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics | 290.215 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
proportion of | 97.6% |
Diocesan priest | 111 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious priest | 24 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics per priest | 2,150 |
Permanent deacons | 37 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Friars | 29 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious sisters | 136 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Italian |
cathedral | Santa Maria delle Colonne in Syracuse |
address | Arcivescovado, Piazza Duomo 5, 96100 Siracusa, Italia |
Website | on webdiocesi |
Suffragan dioceses |
Noto Ragusa |
Ecclesiastical province | |
The Archdiocese of Syracuse ( Latin : Archidioecesis Syracusanus ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy , located in Sicily .
It is the Metropolitan Diocese of the Church of Syracuse in the church region of Sicily , its suffragan dioceses are the Diocese of Noto and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ragusa .
history
The diocese of Syracuse traces its origins back to the 2nd century AD, became a metropolis in Byzantine times, but perished during the Arab domination .
Under the rule of the Normans , the original Byzantine diocese was re-established as a Latin diocese in 1093 by Roger I and Pope Urban II . In 1188 it became a suffragan of the recently established Archdiocese of Monreale . The dioceses of Caltagirone , Piazza Armerina and Noto were established in the 19th century from parts of its territory, which extended over the entire south-east of Sicily .
On May 18, 1844, Pope Gregory XVI raised the diocese to the archbishopric and metropolitan seat . As a suffragan diocese it received the dioceses of Caltagirone, Piazza Armerina and Noto. In 1955 the Diocese of Ragusa was added, which in 1950 had also been established from part of the Archdiocese of Syracuse.
In the construction of two new ecclesiastical provinces by John Paul II. On December 2, 2000, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Caltagirone by was Apostolic Constitution Ad maiori consulendum the ecclesiastical province of Catania assigned and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Piazza Armerina of the ecclesiastical province of Agrigento , so that in the church Syracuse only the dioceses Noto and Ragusa remained as suffragan dioceses.
See also
Web links
- Official website in (Italian)
- Archdiocese of Syracuse and map of the ecclesiastical region of Sicily on the official website of the Catholic Church of Italy (Italian)
- Entry for the Archdiocese of Syracuse on catholic-hierarchy.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Ad maiori consulendum , AAS 93 (2001), n.3, p. 128f.