Diocese of Acqui
Aquen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Acqui, Italy
The Diocese of Acqui is a Latin rite diocese in Piedmont and Liguria in northwest Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Turin. Its cathedral is in Acqui Terme and it has roughly 115 parishes.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 488
- Latin
- Aquen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Guido of Acqui
- Annuario code
- 001000598
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 148,500
- Population
- 156,100
- Catholic share
- 95.1%
- Priests
- 95
- Catholics per priest
- 1,563
- Extent
- 1,683 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 88
of the people living within its bounds
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 Testore
- Born
- 30 April 1952
- Birthplace
- Costigliole d'Asti
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 stands in Acqui, 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 Turin
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Turin.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AlbaAlba
- Diocese of AstiAsti
- Diocese of Cuneo–FossanoCuneo–Fossano
- Diocese of IvreaIvrea
- Diocese of PineroloPinerolo
- Diocese of SaluzzoSaluzzo
- Diocese of SusaSusa
- Archdiocese of TorinoTorino
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Straddling the civil regions of Piedmont and Liguria in northwest Italy, the Latin diocese of Acqui (Latin: Dioecesis Aquensis) occupies a place the ancient Romans knew as Aquae Statiellae, a name sometimes confused with Aquae Sentiae (Aix-en-Provence) and Aquae Augustae (Dax), both of which also had bishops. The see remained subordinate to the Province of Milan until 1817, when Pope Pius VII transferred it to the Province of Turin. As a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Turin it belongs to the ecclesiastical region of Piedmont.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].