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Diocese of Reggio Emilia–Guastalla

Regien(sis) in Aemilia-Guastallen(sis)

The Diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla is a Latin Church diocese in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola. The combined title dates to 1986 when the Diocese of Guastalla was united with the Diocese of Reggio Emilia.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
30 September 1986
Latin
Regien(sis) in Aemilia-Guastallen(sis)
Patron
<li>santos Crisanto y Daríasan Próspero de Reggio
Annuario code
001002734

The see in figures

Catholics
500,056
Population
571,167
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
87.5%
Priests
200
Catholics per priest
2,500
Extent
2,394 km²
Catholics per km²
209

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
Giacomo Morandi
Born
24 August 1965
Birthplace
Modena

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 Beata Vergine Assunta, Reggio Emilia stands in Reggio Emilia, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale dei Santi Pietro e Paolo, Guastalla.

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

The province of Modena-Nonantola

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola.

The sees of this province:

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

History

In Emilia-Romagna, Italy, the Latin diocese known today as Reggio Emilia-Guastalla (Latin: Dioecesis Regiensis in Aemilia-Guastallensis) took its present shape in 1986, when the historical Diocese of Reggio Emilia was united with the Diocese of Guastalla. In its early period the see belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Milan and later answered to the Archbishop of Ravenna; today it stands as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola.

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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.