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Suffragan diocese Ajaccio, France

Diocese of Ajaccio

Adiacen(sis)

Latin Church

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.

On the map

Esri
Ajaccio, France, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
300
Catholics
277,000
Priests
56
Territory
8,722 km²

Parishes and churches

429 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Francois-Xavier Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv.

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The cathedral

Ajaccio Cathedral stands in Ajaccio, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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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.

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