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Diocese of Iglesias

Ecclesien(sis)

The Diocese of Iglesias is a Latin Church diocese in Sardinia, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Cagliari. It was erected as an independent see in 1763, succeeding the ancient Diocese of Sulci.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1763
Latin
Ecclesien(sis)
Patron
san Antíoco de Sulcis
Annuario code
001001646

The see in figures

Catholics
120,000
Population
121,253
Catholic share
99.0%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
60
Catholics per priest
2,000
Extent
1,678 km²
Catholics per km²
72

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
Mario Farci
Born
9 May 1967
Birthplace
Quartu Sant’Elena

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 Saint Clare of Assisi stands in Iglesias, 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 Cagliari

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cagliari.

The sees of this province:

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

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.

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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].