Ecclesiastical province of Palermo

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Basic data
Country	Italy
Church region	Sicily
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Palermo
Suffragan dioceses	Cefalù Mazara del Vallo Monreale Trapani
Metropolitan	Paolo Cardinal Romeo
surface	7.056 km²
Parishes	477 ( AP2008 )
Residents	1,703,934 ( AP2008 )
Catholics	1,650,223 ( AP2008 )
proportion of	96.8%
Diocesan priest	571 ( AP2008 )
Religious priest	396 ( AP2008 )
Catholics per priest	1,707
Permanent deacons	50 ( AP2008 )
Friars	495 ( AP2008 )
Religious sisters	1,680 ( AP2008 )
Church region

The ecclesiastical province of Palermo 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 Messina and the province of Trapani .

structure

The ecclesiastical province includes the following dioceses:

• Archdiocese of Palermo
  • Diocese of Cefalù
  • Diocese of Mazara del Vallo
  • Archdiocese of Monreale
  • Diocese of Trapani

Metropolitans

The first metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Palermo was the Greek bishop Nicodemus (1065-1073). Alcherius was mentioned as the first Latin metropolitan in 1083. For a list of the Metropolitans, see the List of Bishops of Palermo .

See also

• Roman Catholic Church in Italy