Diocese of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno Dioecesis Latinensis-Terracinensis-Setina-Privernensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | Immediately exempt to the Holy See |
Statistics | |
Area | 1,371 km2 (529 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 336,474 323,214 (96.1%) |
Parishes | 87 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | By 1217 Reorganized 1986 |
Cathedral | Cattedrale di S. Marco (Latina) |
Co-cathedral | Concattedrale di S. Cesareo (Terracina) Concattedrale di S. Maria (Sezze) Concattedrale di S. Maria Annunziata (Priverno) |
Secular priests | 75 (diocesan) 53 (Religious Orders) 21 Permanent Deacons |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Mariano Crociata |
Website | |
diocesi.latina.it (in Italian) |
The Diocese of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno (Latin: Dioecesis Latinensis-Terracinensis-Setina-Privernensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Lazio, Italy. It was established under this name in 1986. It is the continuation of the Diocese of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, whose existence was confirmed by Pope Honorius III in 1217, as a joining of the Diocese of Terracina with the Diocese of Priverno and the Diocese of Sezze under a single bishop. It is immediately exempt to the Holy See.[1][2]