Church province of Catania
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Basic data | |
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Country | Italy |
Church region | Sicily |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Catania |
Suffragan dioceses |
Acireale Caltagirone |
Metropolitan | Salvatore Gristina |
surface | 3,548 km² |
Parishes | 323 ( AP2008 ) |
Residents | 1,083,488 ( AP2008 ) |
Catholics | 1,068,607 ( AP2008 ) |
proportion of | 98.6% |
Diocesan priest | 462 ( AP2008 ) |
Religious priest | 188 ( AP2008 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,644 |
Permanent deacons | 51 ( AP2008 ) |
Friars | 238 ( AP2008 ) |
Religious sisters | 1,020 ( AP2008 ) |
Church region | |
The ecclesiastical province of Catania is one of the five ecclesiastical provinces of the ecclesiastical region of Sicily of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy .
geography
The ecclesiastical province extends over the Sicilian metropolitan city of Catania .
structure
The following dioceses belong to the ecclesiastical province: