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Roman Catholic Diocese of Caltagirone

Roman Catholic diocese in Italy

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Diocese of Caltagirone Dioecesis Calatayeronensis
Interior of the Cathedral of Caltagirone
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Catania
Statistics
Area	1,551 km2 (599 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 154,290 151,430 (98.1%)
Parishes	57
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	12 September 1816 (207 years ago)
Cathedral	Basilica Cattedrale di S. Giuliano
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Calogero Peri, OFMCap
Map
Website
www.diocesidicaltagirone.it

The Diocese of Caltagirone (Latin: Dioecesis Calatayeronensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church situated in the eastofSicily. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Catania. Since 20 March 2012 the bishop is Calogero Peri.^[1]

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.

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The diocese was created on 12 September 1817 with the papal bull Romanus PontifexofPope 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 provinceofSiracusa. From 2 December 2000, with the Pope John Paul II's papal bull, Ad maiori consulendum, the diocese became a suffraganofarchdiocese of Catania. On 20 March 2010, the 15th bishopofCaltagirone, Calogero Peri, OFMCap, was the first bishop to be consecrated in St. Julian's cathedralofCaltagirone.

• Gaetano Maria Giuseppe Benedetto Placido Vincenzo Trigona e Parisi (21 December 1818 – 15 April 1833)^[3]
• Benedetto Denti, OSB (15 March 1833 – 3 August 1853)
• Giuseppe Maria Maniscalco, OFM (17 April 1854 – 10 April 1855)^[4]
• Luigi Natoli (15 March 1858 – 22 February 1867)
• Antonio Morana (23 February 1872 – 18 August 1879)
• Giovanni Battista Bongiorno † (22 September 1879 – 14 March 1887)
• Saverio Gerbino (14 March 1887 – 16 March 1898)
• Damaso Pio De Bono (28 November 1898 – 17 December 1925)
• Giovanni Bargiggia (14 March 1927 – 6 July 1937)
• Pietro Capizzi (12 August 1937 – 11 November 1960)
• Francesco Fasola, OSSGCN (11 November 1960 – 25 June 1963)
• Carmelo Canzonieri (30 July 1963 – 8 January 1983)
• Vittorio Luigi Mondello (30 July 1983 – 28 July 1990)
• Vincenzo Manzella (30 April 1991 – 17 September 2009)
• Calogero Peri, OFMCap, from 30 January 2010

• Luigi Natoli (bishop)

• (in Italian) Home page

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