Diocese of Rome

Diocese of Rome
Basic data
Country	Italy Vatican City
Church region	Lazio
Ecclesiastical province	Rome
Diocesan bishop	Pope Francis
Auxiliary bishop	Guerino Di Tora Paolo Selvadagi Paolo Ricciardi Daniele Libanori SJ Gianpiero Palmieri
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Benedict XVI.
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus	Enzo Dieci Paolo Schiavon
Vicar General	Angelo Cardinal De Donatis (Vicariate Rome) Angelo Cardinal Comastri (Vicariate Vatican City)
surface	849 km²
Vicariates	2 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Parishes	334 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents	2,867,143 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics	2,351,057 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of	82%
Diocesan priest	1,542 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest	3,118 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest	505
Permanent deacons	125 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars	4,820 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters	22,740 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite	Latin rite
Liturgical language	Italian , Latin
cathedral	Lateran Basilica
Website	www.vicariatusurbis.org
Suffragan dioceses	Suburbicarian dioceses : Albano Frascati Ostia Palestrina Porto-Santa Rufina Sabina-Poggio Mirteto Velletri-Segni

The diocese of Rome ( Latin Dioecesis Urbis seu Romana , diocese of the city or diocese of Rome) was founded in the 1st century. The Bishop of Rome is both the Primate of Italy and the head of the Roman Catholic Church . Since the diocese of Rome is an archdiocese per se, the bishop also exercises the office of metropolitan of the Roman ecclesiastical province . The area of ​​the diocese of Rome is smaller than the area of ​​the city of Rome.

The cathedral of the diocese is the Lateran basilica . The management of the official business is largely delegated to the cardinal vicar, whose official title is "General Vicar of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome" (Latin: Vicarius generalis dioecesis Romanae ). This is in turn supported by the vice pensioner .

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  Coat of arms of the Diocese of Rome with the coat of arms of the Holy See

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  Lateran Basilica, the Episcopal Church of Rome

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  The cathedra of the Pope as Bishop of Rome in the apse of the Lateran basilica

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  Pope Francis

Development of membership numbers

See also

• Holy See
• Roman Catholic Church in Italy
• List of the bishops of Rome
• List of Cardinal Vicars
• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses
• Parishes of the Diocese of Rome

Web links

• Homepage of the diocese (Italian)
• Entry for the Diocese of Rome on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Entry in GCatholic (English)
• Patriarch and Patriarchate in Catholic Encyclopedia (English)

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