Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agrigento information
Latin Catholic archdiocese in Italy
Archdiocese of Agrigento
Archidioecesis Agrigentina
Agrigento Cathedral
Location
Country
Italy
Ecclesiastical province
Agrigento
Statistics
Area
3,041 km2 (1,174 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics
(as of 2015) 448,830 (est.) 428,670 (est.) (95.5%)
Parishes
194
Information
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
Francis
Archbishop
Alessandro Damiano
Vicar General
Giuseppe Cumbo
Bishops emeritus
Carmelo Ferraro
Francesco Montenegro
Map
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.
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^Archdiocese of AgrigentoCatholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved April 4, 2016[self-published source]
^"Metropolitan Archdiocese of Agrigento" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved April 4, 2016
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