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Diocese of Ventimiglia–San Remo

Ventimilien(sis)-Sancti Romuli

The Diocese of Ventimiglia-San Remo is a Latin diocese in Liguria, northern Italy, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Genoa. It took its current name in 1975 and is led by Bishop Antonio Suetta.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
7th century
Latin
Ventimilien(sis)-Sancti Romuli
Patron
san Segundo mártir
Annuario code
001000085

The see in figures

Catholics
152,400
Population
158,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
96.5%
Priests
56
Catholics per priest
2,721
Extent
715 km²
Catholics per km²
213

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
Antonio Suetta
Born
25 November 1962
Birthplace
Loano

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 Nostra Signora Assunta, Ventimiglia stands in Ventimiglia–San Remo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Basilica Concattedrale di San Siro, Sanremo.

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.

History

In Liguria, northern Italy, the Diocese of Ventimiglia-Sanremo (Latin: Dioecesis Ventimiliensis-Sancti Romuli) continues the historic Diocese of Ventimiglia (dioecesis Albintimiliensis, and Intimiliensis), whose name was changed in 1975. Originally a suffragan of the Metropolitanate of Milan, it passed in 1806 to the Metropolitanate of Aix, and since 1818 it has been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Genoa.

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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.