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Metropolitan see Siena, Italy

Archdiocese of Siena–Colle di Val d’Elsa–Montalcino

Senen(sis)-Collen(sis)-Ilcinen(sis)

The Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino is a metropolitan Latin Church archdiocese in Tuscany, Italy, with origins in the 4th century and raised to metropolitan status in 1459 by Pope Pius II. It assumed its present form in 1986 when the dioceses of Colle di Val d'Elsa and Montalcino merged with Siena, and is led by Cardinal Augusto Paolo Lojudice since 2019.

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The address the register holds for Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, in Siena, Italy.

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Established
300
Catholics
177,460
Priests
73
Territory
2,265 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Augusto Paolo Lojudice
Born
1 July 1964
Birthplace
Roma

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The cathedral

Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta stands in Siena, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale dei Santi Marziale e Alberto (Colle di Val d'Elsa); Concattedrale di San Salvatore.

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History

In Tuscany, the Latin Church maintains the Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino (Latin: Archidioecesis Senensis-Collensis-Ilcinensis), whose archbishop is seated at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Siena. For centuries, until 1459, the diocese answered immediately to the Holy See (Papacy) and its bishops attended the Roman synods; in that year Pope Pius II raised Siena to a metropolitan archbishopric.

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