Diocese of Ajaccio
Adiacen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ajaccio, France
Latin rite diocese covering the whole island of Corsica, France, with origins traced to the 3rd century. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Marseille. Its seat is Ajaccio Cathedral (Our Lady of the Assumption); its bishop, Cardinal Francois-Xavier Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv., was appointed in 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 300
- Latin
- Adiacen(sis)
- Patron
- St. Euphrase
- Annuario code
- 001000621
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 277,000
- Population
- 340,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 81.5%
- Priests
- 56
- Catholics per priest
- 4,946
- Extent
- 8,722 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 32
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Francois-Xavier Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Ajaccio Cathedral stands in Ajaccio, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Marseille
A suffragan of Marseille.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AvignonAvignon
- Archdiocese of Aix–ArlesAix–Arles
- Diocese of DigneDigne
- Diocese of Fréjus-ToulonFréjus-Toulon
- Diocese of Gap-EmbrunGap-Embrun
- Archdiocese of MarseilleMarseille
- Diocese of NiceNice
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The whole of the island of Corsica belongs to the Diocese of Ajaccio (Latin: Dioecesis Adiacensis; French: Diocèse d'Ajaccio), a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France erected in the 3rd century. Once a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Pisa, the diocese passed after the French Concordat of 1801 under the Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence and Arles, and in 2002 it was attached to the archdiocesan province of Marseille. In 2012 the diocese counted one priest for every 3,636 Catholics.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.