Diocese of Alba
Albae Pompeien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Alba, Italy
The Diocese of Alba is a Latin rite diocese in the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Turin. Its cathedral is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and it has roughly 126 parishes.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 499
- Latin
- Albae Pompeien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Lawrence
- Annuario code
- 001000627
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 132,475
- Population
- 137,070
- Catholic share
- 96.6%
- Priests
- 79
- Catholics per priest
- 1,677
- Extent
- 1,050 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 126
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
- Marco Brunetti
- Born
- 9 July 1962
- Birthplace
- Torino
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 San Lorenzo stands in Alba, 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 AcquiAcqui
- 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
Eighty towns in the civil Province of Cuneo and two in the Province of Asti make up the territory of this Italian Latin Church diocese, known as Alba Pompeia or Alba Pompea (Latin: Dioecesis Albae Pompeiensis). It is a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Turin.
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].