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Archdiocese of Crotone–Santa Severina

Crotonen(sis) Sanctae Severinae

The Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina is a Latin Church see in Calabria, southern Italy, formed in 1986 by the union of the dioceses of Crotone and Santa Severina. Despite its archiepiscopal title, it is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace.

The see

Rank
Suffragan archdiocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
30 September 1986
Latin
Crotonen(sis) Sanctae Severinae
Patron
Beata Maria Vergine di Capocolonna
Annuario code
001001236

The see in figures

Catholics
189,253
Population
202,187
Catholic share
93.6%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
100
Catholics per priest
1,893
Extent
1,885 km²
Catholics per km²
100

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

Archbishop
Alberto Torriani
Born
3 November 1971
Birthplace
Bollate

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

Basilica Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta stands in Crotone–Santa Severina, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale di Santa Anastasia.

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

The province of Catanzaro-Squillace

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace.

The sees of this province:

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

History

In Calabria in southern Italy, the Latin Church Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina (Latin: Archidioecesis Crotonensis-Sanctae Severinae) took its modern shape in 1986, when it was combined with the Diocese of Santa Severina. Today it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace. In 2013 the archdiocese counted one priest for every 1,841 Catholics. The original Diocese of Cortone (also Cotrone, now Crotone) dated from the 6th century and was then a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Reggio.

How to reach it

Chancery
Arcivescovado, Piazza Duomo 19, 88900 Crotone, Italia
Telephone
0962.21.520

This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.

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 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.

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Sources

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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].