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Archdiocese of Monreale

Montis Regalis

The Archdiocese of Monreale is a Latin Church archdiocese in Sicily, Italy, founded in 1174 and raised to an archdiocese in 1183. It lost metropolitan status in 2000 and is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Palermo, led by Archbishop Gualtiero Isacchi.

The see

Rank
Suffragan archdiocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1174
Latin
Montis Regalis
Patron
Saint Castrese di Sessa
Annuario code
001002272

The see in figures

Catholics
259,656
Population
262,920
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
98.8%
Priests
112
Catholics per priest
2,318
Extent
1,509 km²
Catholics per km²
172

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
Gualtiero Isacchi
Born
7 September 1970
Birthplace
Lecco

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 Nuova stands in Monreale, 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 Sicilia

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Palermo.

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.