Parishes 132 Rite Roman Rite Area 943 km² Province Province of Vibo Valentia Bishop Luigi Renzo | Denomination Catholic Church Established 11th century Phone +39 0963 339464 Country Italy | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2013)
170,700 (est.)
155,900 (est.) (91.3%) Co-cathedral Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Nicotera)
Concattedrale di Maria SS. di Romania (Tropea) Address 8 Via E. Piscopio, Mileto, VV 89852, Italy Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova Similar Fondazio Cuore Immacola, Cathedral, Diocesi Di Locri Gerace, Ente Parrocchia Duomo, Diocesi Di Lamezia Terme | ||
The Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Calabria, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year the historical Diocese of Mileto was united with the Diocese of Nicotera-Tropea. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova.
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History
The town of Mileto was founded as a fortress by Roger I, Count of Sicily in 1058, and he resided there from time to time, dealing with the rebels of Calabria. It was Count Roger who petitioned the pope to create a diocese at Mileto. Mileto was made an episcopal see by Pope Gregory VII in 1073, who suppressed the diocese of Vibona permanently and transferred its territory and assets to Mileto. The Pope personally consecrated its first Bishop, Arnolfo.
Pope Urban II visited Mileto in June 1091. On 3 October 1093, Urban II confirmed the privileges of the diocese of Mileto, and the suppression of the diocese of Tauriana and the diocese of Vibona.
Roger II, King of Sicily, was born and baptized in Mileto in 1095.
On 23 December 1121 Pope Callixtus II confirmed once again the union of the diocese of Mileto with the diocese of Tauriana and diocese of Vibona, the latter destroyed by the Saracens. He also granted the plea of Bishop Gaufredus that bishops of Mileto would continue in perpetuity to be consecrated by the Pope personally, as had been the case with his predecessors.
The earthquake of 1783 destroyed the cathedral, built by Count Roger, who also built the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity and St. Michael for Greek Basilian monks.
Diocese of Mileto
Erected: 11th Century
Latin Name: Miletensis
Immediately Subject to the Holy See
from 1073 to 1500
Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea
30 September 1986: United with the suppressed Diocese of Nicotera e Tropea