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Diocese of La Spezia–Sarzana–Brugnato

Spedien(sis)-Sarzanen(sis)-Brugnaten(sis)

The Diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato is a Latin rite see in Liguria, Italy, formed by the full union of three historic sees in 1986 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Genoa. Bishop Luigi Ernesto Palletti has led it since 2012.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
30 September 1986
Latin
Spedien(sis)-Sarzanen(sis)-Brugnaten(sis)
Patron
<li>san Venerio
Annuario code
001001964

The see in figures

Catholics
212,554
Population
221,263
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
96.1%
Priests
103
Catholics per priest
2,064
Extent
881 km²
Catholics per km²
241

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
Luigi Palletti

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 Cristo Re (Cathedral of Christ the King), La Spezia stands in La Spezia, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta (Sarzana); Concattedrale dei Santi Pietro, Lorenzo e Colombano.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Genoa

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Genoa.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.