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Diocese of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia Dioecesis Centumcellarum-Tarquiniensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | Immediately exempt to the Holy See |
Statistics | |
Area | 876 km2 (338 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 109,100 (est.) 106,200 (guess) (97.3%) |
Parishes | 27 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 20 December 1825 |
Cathedral | Cattedrale di S. Francesco d’Assisi (Civitavecchia) |
Co-cathedral | Concattedrale di Ss. Margherita e Martino (Tarquinia) |
Secular priests | 50 (diocesan) 23 (Religious Orders) 16 Permanent Deacons |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Gianrico Ruzza |
Website | |
www.civitavecchia.chiesacattolica.it |
The Diocese of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia (Latin: Dioecesis Centumcellarum-Tarquiniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Lazio, Italy. It was established under this name in 1986. The diocese is immediately exempt to the Holy See and not part of an ecclesiastical province.[1][2]