Roman Catholic Diocese of Caltagirone

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Diocese of Caltagirone

Dioecesis Calatayeronensis
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Exterior of the Cathedral of Caltagirone
Location
CountryItaly
Ecclesiastical province Catania
Statistics
Area1,551 km2 (599 sq mi)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2006)
  • 154,290
  • 151,430 (98.1%)
Parishes57
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established12 September 1816 (208 years ago)
CathedralBasilica Cattedrale di S. Giuliano
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop Calogero Peri, OFMCap
Map
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Website
www.diocesidicaltagirone.it

The Diocese of Caltagirone (Latin : Dioecesis Calatayeronensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church situated in the east of Sicily. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Catania. Since 30 January 2010 the bishop is Calogero Peri. [1]

Contents

The diocese consists of fifteen towns in the province of Catania: Caltagirone, Castel di Judica, Grammichele, Mazzarrone, San Michele di Ganzaria, Raddusa, Ramacca, Mirabella Imbaccari, Scordia, Militello in Val di Catania, Palagonia, Mineo, Licodia Eubea, San Cono and Vizzini. The main town, where is St. Julian's cathedral church, is Caltagirone. The territory is subdivided into 57 parish churches.

History

The diocese was created on 12 September 1817 with the papal bull Romanus Pontifex of Pope Pius VII, and the permission of the King of Naples which was registered on 20 February 1818. [2] Originally it was a suffragan of the diocese of Monreale, but from 20 May 1844 it entered in the ecclesiastic province of Siracusa. From 2 December 2000, with the Pope John Paul II's papal bull, Ad maiori consulendum, the diocese became a suffragan of archdiocese of Catania. On 20 March 2010, the 15th bishop of Caltagirone, Calogero Peri, OFMCap, was the first bishop to be consecrated in St. Julian's cathedral of Caltagirone.

Bishops

See also

Notes

  1. Catholic Hierarchy page.
  2. Andrea Gallo, ed. (1846). Codice ecclesiastico sicolo contenente le costituzioni, i capitoli del Regno, le sanzioni, le prammatiche, i reali dispacci, le leggi, i decreti, i reali rescritti ed altri documenti relativi alle materie del diritto ecclesiastico sicolo, dalla fondazione della monarchia siciliana sino a' nostri giorni opera dell'avv. Andrea Gallo: 2 (in Italian and Latin). Vol. II. Palermo: Stamperia Carini. pp. 72–73.
  3. Saverio Grasso, in Vincenzo D'Avino (1848). Cenni storici sulle chiese arcivescovili, vescovili, e prelatizie (nulluis) del Regno delle Due Sicilie (in Italian). Napoli: Ranucci. p.  131.
  4. Zigarelli, Giuseppe (1856). Storia della Cattedra di Avellino e de'suoi pastori, con brevi notizie de'Metropolitani della chiesa di Benevento seguito dalla serie cronologica de'vescovi di Frigento e da una esatta descrizione de'luoghi onde di presente viene composta la prima opera (in Italian). Zigarelli, Gius (1856). Volume II. Napoli: Vaglio, pp. 259-311.

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