Church province of Syracuse
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Basic data | |
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Country | Italy |
Church region | Sicily |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Syracuse |
Suffragan dioceses |
Noto Ragusa |
Metropolitan | Francesco Lomanto |
surface | 3,725 km² |
Parishes | 245 ( AP2008 ) |
Residents | 766.822 ( AP2008 ) |
Catholics | 748.268 ( AP2008 ) |
proportion of | 97.6% |
Diocesan priest | 311 ( AP2008 ) |
Religious priest | 92 ( AP2008 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,857 |
Permanent deacons | 33 ( AP2008 ) |
Friars | 121 ( AP2008 ) |
Religious sisters | 663 ( AP2008 ) |
Church region | |
The ecclesiastical province of Syracuse 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 provinces of Syracuse and Ragusa .
structure
The following dioceses belong to the ecclesiastical province: