Diocese of Ajaccio
Adiacen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ajaccio, France
Latin rite diocese covering the whole island of Corsica, France, with origins traced to the 3rd century. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Marseille. Its seat is Ajaccio Cathedral (Our Lady of the Assumption); its bishop, Cardinal Francois-Xavier Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv., was appointed in 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 300
- Latin
- Adiacen(sis)
- Patron
- St. Euphrase
- Annuario code
- 001000621
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 277,000
- Population
- 340,000
- Catholic share
- 81.5%
- Priests
- 56
- Catholics per priest
- 4,946
- Extent
- 8,722 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 32
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
- Francois-Xavier Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv.
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
Ajaccio Cathedral stands in Ajaccio, 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 Marseille
A suffragan of Marseille.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AvignonAvignon
- Archdiocese of Aix–ArlesAix–Arles
- Diocese of DigneDigne
- Diocese of Fréjus-ToulonFréjus-Toulon
- Diocese of Gap-EmbrunGap-Embrun
- Archdiocese of MarseilleMarseille
- Diocese of NiceNice
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The whole of the island of Corsica belongs to the Diocese of Ajaccio (Latin: Dioecesis Adiacensis; French: Diocèse d'Ajaccio), a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France erected in the 3rd century. Once a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Pisa, the diocese passed after the French Concordat of 1801 under the Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence and Arles, and in 2002 it was attached to the archdiocesan province of Marseille. In 2012 the diocese counted one priest for every 3,636 Catholics.
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].