Archdiocese of Gaeta
Caietan(us)
Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See · Latin Church · Gaeta, Italy, Italy
Latin Church archdiocese in the city of Gaeta, Lazio, Italy, dating to the 8th century and raised to honorary archiepiscopal rank in 1848. It is a non-metropolitan see immediately exempt to the Holy See, led by Archbishop Luigi Vari.
The see
- Rank
- Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1848
- Latin
- Caietan(us)
- Patron
- Saint Erasmus; Saint Marcian; Our Lady of Civita; Saint Albina
- Annuario code
- 001001455
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 158,159
- Population
- 163,680
- Catholic share
- 96.6%
- Priests
- 79
- Catholics per priest
- 2,002
- Extent
- 760 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 208
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
- Archbishop
- Luigi Vari
- Born
- 2 March 1957
- Birthplace
- Segni
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
Cathedral of Saints Erasmus and Marcian and St. Mary of the Assumption stands in Gaeta, 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 Lazio, Italy, the Archdiocese of Gaeta (Latin: Archidioecesis Caietana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church. The archbishop's cathedra stands in the Cathedral of SS. Erasmus and Marcianus and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the episcopal see of Gaeta. Though an archdiocese, it is not a metropolitan see: it is exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See. Luigi Vari, ordained a bishop on April 21, 2016 by Pope Francis, is the current archbishop of Gaeta.
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].