Ecclesiastical Province of Rome
Ecclesiastical Province of Rome | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Italy , Vatican City |
Church region | Lazio |
Metropolitan bishopric | Diocese of Rome |
surface | 5,443 km² |
Parishes | 1,448 |
Residents | 5,731,000 |
Catholics | 5,324,000 |
proportion of | 92.9% |
Diocesan priest | 2,966 |
Religious priest | 4,557 |
Catholics per priest | 708 |
Permanent deacons | 232 |
Friars | 6,915 |
Religious sisters | 27,153 |
The ecclesiastical province of Rome is the only ecclesiastical province of the Lazio region of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy .
The ecclesiastical province of Rome includes the diocese of Rome as a metropolitan seat and the seven suburbicarian bishoprics as suffragan seats .
The other dioceses of the ecclesiastical region of Latium, on the other hand, do not belong to the ecclesiastical province of Rome, which are immediately subordinate to the Holy See without being assigned to an ecclesiastical province .
Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Rome is the respective bishop of Rome , currently Pope Francis .
structure
Organization of the ecclesiastical province of Rome since 1981: