Roman Catholic Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea

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Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea

Dioecesis Locrensis-Hieracensis
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Co-cathedral in Tropea
Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Reggio Calabria-Bova
Statistics
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Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
166,000
160,000 (96.4%)
Parishes 131
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 11th century
Cathedral Cattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta in Cielo (Mileto)
Co-cathedral Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Nicotera)
Concattedrale di Maria SS. di Romania (Tropea)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Luigi Renzo
Map
File:Roman Catholic Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea in Italy.svg
Website
www.diocesimileto.it/

The Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Calabria, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year the historical Diocese of Mileto was united with the Diocese of Nicotera-Tropea. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova.[1][2]

History

Mileto was made an episcopal see by Pope Gregory VII in 1073. The earthquake of 1783 destroyed the cathedral, built by Count Roger, who also built the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity and St. Michael for Greek Basilian monks.

Pope Callixtus II united the diocese of Mileto with the diocese of Tauriana and diocese of Vibona, the latter destroyed by the Saracens. The first bishop was Arnolfo; after him were

  • Godfrey (1094), under whom the see became immediately subject to Rome;
  • Cardinal Corrado Caracciolo (1402);
  • Cardinal Astorgio Agnensi (1411);
  • Antonio Sorbilli (1435), who founded the seminary in 1440;
  • Felice Centini (1611), afterwards a cardinal;
  • Gregorio Ponziani (1640), charged with a mission to England by Pope Urban VIII.[3]

Ordinaries

Diocese of Mileto

Erected: 11th Century
Latin Name: Miletensis
Immediately Subject to the Holy See

Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea

30 September 1986: United with the suppressed Diocese of Nicotera e Tropea

  • Luigi Renzo (28 Jun 2007 - )

References

  1. "Diocese of Mileto–Nicotera–Tropea" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 23, 2016
  2. "Diocese of Mileto–Nicotera–Tropea" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 14, 2016
  3. Catholic Encyclopedia article
  4. "Andrea Cardinal Della Valle" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved May 16, 2016
  5. "Bishop Maurizio Centini, O.F.M. Conv." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016

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