Parishes 57 Phone +39 0933 34186 Country Italy | Area 1,551 km² Bishop Calogero Peri | |
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Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2006)154,290151,430 (98.1%) Established 12 September 1816 (200 years ago) Cathedral Basilica Cattedrale di S. Giuliano Similar Duomo di San Giuliano, Parrocchia ‑ Santuario Mariano, Caritas Diocesana, Diocesi Di Caltaniss, Church of Capuchins | ||
The Italian Catholic diocese of Caltagirone (Latin: Dioecesis Calatayeronensis) is situated in the east of Sicily. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Catania. Since 20 March 2012 the bishop is Calogero Peri.
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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 Pope Pius VII' papal bull Romanus Pontifex. 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 15° bishop of Caltagirone, Calogero Peri, O.F.M.Cap., was the first bishop to be consecrated in St. Julian's cathedral of Caltagirone.