Diocese of Frosinone–Veroli–Ferentino
Frusinaten(sis)-Verulan(us)-Ferentin(us)
Diocese immediately subject to the Holy See · Latin Church · Frosinone–Veroli–Ferentino, Italy
Latin Church diocese in Lazio, Italy, formed in 1986 by the union of the dioceses of Frosinone, Veroli, and Ferentino. It is immediately exempt to the Holy See and led by Archbishop Santo Marciano, appointed in 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Diocese immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 September 1986
- Latin
- Frusinaten(sis)-Verulan(us)-Ferentin(us)
- Patron
- • santa María Salomé, • san Ambrosio mártir
- Annuario code
- 001001447
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 166,700
- Population
- 176,678
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 94.4%
- Priests
- 74
- Catholics per priest
- 2,253
- Extent
- 804 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 207
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
- Archbishop
- Santo Marcianò
- Born
- 10 April 1960
- Birthplace
- Reggio Calabria
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
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta stands in Frosinone–Veroli–Ferentino, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale di Sant'Andrea Apostolo (Veroli); Concattedrale dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Since 1986 the Diocese of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino (Latin: Dioecesis Frusinatensis-Verulana-Ferentina) has existed as a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in Italy. That year the Diocese of Ferentino was united into the Diocese of Veroli-Frosinone, the name borne since 1956 by the historic Diocese of Veroli. The see is immediately exempt to the Holy See and belongs to no ecclesiastical province.
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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.