Roman Catholic Diocese of Pavia
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Diocese of Pavia
Dioecesis Papiensis
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File:Duomo Pavia.jpg
Pavia Cathedral
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | Milan |
Statistics | |
Area | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2004) 161,562 158,711 (98.2%) |
Parishes | 99 |
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Rite | Roman |
Established | 1st Century |
Cathedral | Cattedrale di Maria Assunta e S. Stefano Protomartire |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Corrado Sanguineti |
Map | |
Website | |
www.diocesi.pavia.it |
The Diocese of Pavia (Latin: Dioecesis Papiensis) is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan. The diocese has produced one Pope and Patriarch of Venice, and three cardinals.
The diocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its bishop is the Cattedrale di Maria Assunta e S. Stefano Protomartire. The current Bishop of Pavia is Corrado Sanguineti, appointed by Pope John Paul II on 1 December 2003.
List of bishops of Pavia (incomplete)
Parishes
The diocese's 99 parishes are all located in the (civil) region Lombardy: 97 in the Province of Pavia and 2 in the Province of Milan.[1]
Notes
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External links
- Official site
- Catholic-Hierarchy
- GCatholic.org
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- Dioceses established in the 1st century
- Roman Catholic dioceses in Lombardy
- Bishops of Pavia
- Province of Milan
- Province of Pavia