Diocese of Derna
Dernen(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Derna, Libya
Derna is a Latin Church apostolic vicariate in eastern Libya, erected on 22 June 1939 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Cyrenaica and immediately subject to the Holy See. The see is currently vacant, administered since 2019 by Bishop Sandro Overend Rigillo, O.F.M., vicar apostolic of Benghazi, as apostolic administrator.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 June 1939
- Latin
- Dernen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000399
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 500
- Population
- 100,000
- Catholic share
- 0.5%
- Priests
- 4
- Catholics per priest
- 125
- Extent
- 120,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Apostolic Administrator
- Sandro Overend Rigillo
- Born
- 31 May 1959
- Birthplace
- Sliema
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI
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
episcopal see stands in Derna, 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.
History
In Derna, Libya, the Catholic Church maintains the Apostolic Vicariate of Derna (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Dernensis), a Latin Church missionary territory. It possesses an episcopal see but no cathedral, and it belongs to no ecclesiastical province, being exempt directly to the Holy See through the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- P. O. Box 248, Benghazi, Libya
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.
Sources
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].