Archdiocese of Agrigento Archidioecesis Agrigentina | |
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Ecclesiastical province | Agrigento |
Statistics | |
Area | 3,041 km2 (1,174 sq mi) |
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Parishes | 194 |
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Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Cathedral | Cattedrale di S. Gerlando |
Secular priests | 228 (diocesan) 41 (Religious Orders) 44 Deacons |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Sede vacante |
Archbishop | Alessandro Damiano |
Vicar General | Giuseppe Cumbo |
Bishops emeritus | |
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Website | |
www.diocesiag.it |
The Archdiocese of Agrigento (Latin : Archidioecesis Agrigentina) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy. [1] [2] [3] The historic diocese of Agrigento was also known as the Diocese of Girgenti, and Diocese of Agrigentum. It used to be a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Monreale. A metropolitan see, the Archdiocese of Agrigento has two suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province.
Girgenti (the Greek Acragas, Roman Agrigentum) considers Saint Libertinus as its earliest proselytizer; he is said to have been sent by Saint Peter. Local enthusiasm for an Apostolic connection even led someone to forge a bull of investiture, an instrument which was not created for centuries. [4]
Gregory of Agrigento, said to have been martyred in 262, never existed. His name occurs in the hagiographical work, "The Life of St. Agrippina", but the author of that work, a person of the eighth or ninth century, placed the sixth century Bishop Gregory of Agrigento in the wrong context. [5]
The earliest bishop of certain date is Potamius, who was believed to be a contemporary of Pope Agapetus I (535–36). [6] Other scholars place him in the seventh century, in which case he would not be the earliest Bishop of Agrigento. [5]
The succession of bishops, interrupted by the Saracen invasion (879–1038), [7] began again in 1093 with Gerland of Agrigento.
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