Roman Catholic Archdiocese of L'Aquila

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Archdiocese of L'Aquila

Archidioecesis Aquilanus
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Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province L'Aquila
Statistics
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Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
108,300
106,000 (97.9%)
Parishes 147
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 20 February 1257 (767 years ago)
Cathedral Cattedrale di SS. Massimo e Giorgio
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Archbishop Giuseppe Petrocchi
Emeritus Bishops Giuseppe Molinari
Map
File:Arcidiocesi dell'Aquila.JPG
Website
www.diocesilaquila.it

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of L'Aquila (Latin: Archidioecesis Aquilanus) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. It was erected as the Diocese of L'Aquila on 20 February 1257 by Pope Alexander IV and promoted to an archdiocese by Pope Pius IX on 19 January 1876. Pope Paul VI elevated it to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on 15 August 1972, with the suffragan sees of Avezzano and Sulmona–Valva.

The archdiocese's mother church and the seat of its archbishop is L'Aquila Cathedral. L'Aquila also contains the Basilica of San Bernardino da Siena. The current Archbishop of L'Aquila is Giuseppe Petrocchi, since June 8, 2013, and Giovanni D'Ercole, F.D.P. was named auxiliary bishop of L'Aquila on 16 November 2009.

List of bishops and archbishops of L'Aquila

  • Berardo da Padula (1256-1264)
  • Niccolò Sinizzo (1267-1294)
  • Nicola Castroceli (1294-1303).
  • Bartolomeo Conti (1303-1312)
  • Filippo Delci (1312-1327)
  • Angelo Acciaioli (1328-1342)
  • Pietro Guglielmi (1343-1346)
  • Paolo Rainaldi (1349-1377)
  • Isacco D'Arcione (1353-1355)
  • Giovanni Zacchei (1377-1381)
  • Stefano Sidonio (1381-1382)
  • Clemente Secinari (1382-1384)
  • Oddo (1386-1388)
  • Ludovico Cola (1389-1399)
  • Giacomo Donadei (1401-1431)
  • Amico Agnifili (1431-1472)
  • Francesco Agnifili (1472-1476)
  • Ludovico Borgio (1477-1485)
  • Giovanbattista Gaglioffi (1486-1491)
  • Giovanni Di Leone (1493-1502)
  • Gualtiero Suardo (1502-1504)
  • Giovanni da Prato (1504-1506)
  • Francesco Franchi (1517-1523)
  • Giovanni Piccolomini (1523-1525)
  • Pompeo Colonna (1525-1532)
  • Giovanni Piccolomini (apostolic administrator, 1532 - 1538)
  • Bernardo Sancio (1538-1552)
  • Alvaro Della Quadra (1553-1561)
  • Giovanni D'Acugna (1561-1579)
  • Mariano De Racciaccaris (1579-1592)
  • Basilio Pignatelli (1593-1599)
  • Giuseppe De Rubeis (1599-1605)
  • Gundisalvo De Ruenda (1606-1622)
  • Alvaro De Mendoza (1622-1628)
  • Gaspare De Gaioso (1629-1644)
  • Clemente Del Pezzo (1646-1651)
  • Francesco Tellio De Leon (1654-1662)
  • Carlo De Angelis (1663-1674)
  • Giovanni Torricella (1676-1681)
  • Arcangelo Tipaldi (1681-1682)
  • Ignazio Della Zerda (1683-1702)
  • Domenico Taglialatela (1718-1742)
  • Giuseppe Coppola (1742-1749)
  • Ludovico Sabatini (1750-1776)
  • Benedetto Cervone (1777-1788)
  • Francesco Saverio Gualtieri (1792-1817)
  • Girolamo Manieri (1818-1844)
  • Michele Navazio (1845-1851)
  • Luigi Filippi (1853-1881)
  • Augusto Antonio Vicentini (1881 - 1892)
  • Francesco Paolo Carrano (1893 - 1906)
  • Peregrin-François Stagni, SM (1907 - 1916)
  • Adolfo Turchi (1918 - 1929)
  • Gaudenzio Manuelli (1931 - 1941)
  • Carlo Confalonieri (1941 - 1950)
  • Costantino Stella (1950 - 1973)
  • Carlo Martini (1973 - 1983)
  • Mario Peressin (1983 - 1998)
  • Giuseppe Molinari (1998 – 2013)
  • Giuseppe Petrocchi (8 Jun 2013 - )

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