Church Province of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela

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Basic data
Country	Italy
Church region	Sicily
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela
Suffragan dioceses	Nicosia Patti
Metropolitan	Calogero La Piana SDS
surface	4,969 km²
Parishes	368 ( AP2008 )
Residents	735.538 ( AP2008 )
Catholics	723.012 ( AP2008 )
proportion of	98.3%
Diocesan priest	410 ( AP2008 )
Religious priest	149 ( AP2008 )
Catholics per priest	1,293
Permanent deacons	72 ( AP2008 )
Friars	206 ( AP2008 )
Religious sisters	639 ( AP2008 )
Church region

The ecclesiastical province of Messina 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 roughly over the Sicilian metropolitan city of Messina and parts of the province of Enna .

structure

The following dioceses belong to the ecclesiastical province:

• Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela
  • Diocese of Nicosia
  • Diocese of Patti

See also

• Roman Catholic Church in Italy
• List of the bishops of Messina with the metropolitans of the ecclesiastical province of Messina