Catania (Archdiocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]

Past and Present Ordinaries

Gauthier Pagliari † ( 1207 Appointed - )
Oddo Capocci † ( 1254 Appointed - )
Angelo Boccamazza † ( 1257 Appointed - 1289 Died)
Gentile Orsini, O.P. † ( 1296 Appointed - 1303 Died)
Leonardo Fieschi † (10 Jan 1304 Appointed - 21 Mar 1331 Died)
Nicola † (13 Mar 1332 Appointed - 1339 Died)
Nicola de Grelis, O.S.B. † (24 Nov 1339 Appointed - 1342 Died)
Gerardo Odónis, O.F.M. † (27 Nov 1342 Appointed - 1348 Died)
Jean de Luna † (30 May 1348 Appointed - 1355 Died)
Marziale , O.S.B. † (4 Dec 1355 Appointed - 1375 Died)
Elie de Vaudron † (14 May 1376 Appointed - 1388 Died)
Simone del Pozzo, O.P. † (16 Dec 1378 Appointed - 1396 Resigned)
Pietro de Alagona, O.F.M. † (5 Aug 1388 Appointed - 1396 Resigned)
Pedro Serra † ( 1396 Appointed - 22 Sep 1397 Appointed, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti)
Roberto † ( 1398 Appointed - )
Mauro Cali, O.S.B. † ( 1408 Appointed - 1410 Resigned)
Andrea de Pace, O.F.M. † ( 1409 Appointed - )
Tommaso Asinari, O.S.B. † (5 Feb 1411 Appointed - )
Giovanni (Jean) de Podionucis (Puinoix), O.P. † (28 Feb 1418 Appointed - 1431 Died)
Giovanni Pesce, O.F.M. † (21 Nov 1431 Appointed - 3 Feb 1447 Appointed, Titular Bishop of Philippopolis in Arabia)
Giovanni de Primis, O.S.B. † (3 Feb 1447 Appointed - 21 Jan 1449 Died)
Arias de Avalos † (14 Feb 1449 Appointed - 1450 Died)
Guglielmo Belloni (Bellomo) † (2 Oct 1450 Appointed - 1472 Died)
Giuliano della Rovere † (13 Jan 1473 Appointed - 23 May 1474 Appointed, Bishop of Avignon)
Francesco de Campulo † ( 1474 Appointed - 1475 Died)
Giovanni Gatto † (18 Aug 1475 Appointed - 8 Feb 1479 Appointed, Bishop of Cefalù)
Bernardo Margarit, O.S.B. † (8 Feb 1479 Appointed - 1486 Died)
Alfonso Carrillo de Albornoz † (8 Nov 1486 Appointed - 27 Jun 1496 Appointed, Bishop of Ávila)
Juan Rodríguez Daza † (27 Jun 1496 Appointed - 14 Feb 1498 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
Francisco Desprats † (20 Mar 1498 Confirmed - 9 Feb 1500 Appointed, Bishop of Astorga)
Diego Ramírez de Guzmán † (26 Jun 1500 Appointed - 23 Oct 1508 Died)
Jaime de Conchillos, O. de M. † (25 Feb 1509 Appointed - 1 Oct 1512 Appointed, Bishop of Lérida)
Gaspar Ponz † (4 Apr 1513 Appointed - 14 Oct 1520 Died)
Matthäus Schiner (Schinner) † (1 Nov 1520 Appointed - 30 Sep 1522 Died)
Pompeo Colonna † (27 Feb 1523 Appointed - 18 Jan 1524 Appointed, Administrator of Acerno)
Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † (18 Jan 1524 Appointed - 24 Jul 1524 Resigned)
Scipione Caracciolo † (24 Jul 1524 Appointed - 28 Oct 1529 Died)
Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † (29 Nov 1529 Appointed - 9 Mar 1530 Resigned)
Luigi Caracciolo † (9 Mar 1530 Appointed - 1 Sep 1536 Died)
Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † (1 Sep 1536 Appointed - 8 Jan 1537 Resigned)
Nicola Maria Caracciolo † (6 Jan 1537 Appointed - 9 Jan 1567 Died)
Antonino Faraone † (9 Feb 1569 Appointed - 29 Jul 1572 Died)
Juan Orozco de Arce † (11 Aug 1574 Appointed - 28 Mar 1576 Died)
Vincenzo Cutelli † (11 Sep 1577 Appointed - 30 Jan 1589 Resigned)
Juan Corrionero † (2 Mar 1589 Appointed - 9 Jul 1592 Died)
Giovanni Domenico Rebiba † (11 Dec 1595 Appointed - 6 Feb 1604 Died)
Juan Ruiz Villoslada † (5 Dec 1605 Appointed - 1609 Died)
Bonaventura Secusio, O.F.M. Obs. † (10 Jun 1609 Appointed - Mar 1618 Died)
Juan Torres de Osorio † (19 Oct 1619 Appointed - 29 May 1624 Confirmed, Bishop of Oviedo)
Innocenzo Massimi † (1 Jul 1624 Appointed - 21 Aug 1633 Died)
Ottavio Branciforte † (2 Mar 1638 Appointed - 14 Jun 1646 Died)
Marco Antonio Gussio † (22 Aug 1650 Appointed - Jul 1660 Died)
Camillo Astalli-Pamphilj † (4 Jul 1661 Appointed - 21 Dec 1663 Died)
Michelangelo Bonadies, O.F.M. † (22 Apr 1665 Appointed - 27 Aug 1686 Died)
Francesco Antonio Carafa, C.R. † (24 Nov 1687 Appointed - 26 Aug 1692 Died)
Andreas Riggio † (9 Mar 1693 Appointed - 15 Dec 1717 Died)
Juan Álvaro Cienfuegos Villazón, S.J. † (20 Jan 1721 Appointed - 21 Feb 1725 Appointed, Archbishop of Monreale)
Alessandro Burgos, O.F.M. Conv. † (20 Feb 1726 Confirmed - 20 Jul 1726 Died)
Raimundo Rubí, O. Cart. † (26 Nov 1727 Confirmed - 20 Jan 1729 Died)
Pietro Galletti † (28 Nov 1729 Appointed - 6 Apr 1757 Died)
Salvatore Ventimiglia, C.O. † (19 Dec 1757 Confirmed - 11 Dec 1771 Resigned)
Corrado Maria Deodato de Moncada † (10 May 1773 Confirmed - 23 Oct 1813 Died)
Gabriello Maria Gravina, O.S.B. † (23 Sep 1816 Confirmed - 24 Nov 1817 Resigned)
Salvator Ferro de Berardis † (16 Mar 1818 Confirmed - 15 Dec 1819 Died)
Domenico Orlando, O.F.M. Conv. † (24 Nov 1823 Confirmed - 21 Apr 1839 Died)
Felice Regano (Regnano) † (11 Jul 1839 Confirmed - 30 Mar 1861 Died)
Bl. Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet, O.S.B. † (22 Feb 1867 Appointed - 4 Apr 1894 Died)
Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè † (18 Mar 1895 Appointed - 7 Dec 1928 Died)
Emilio Ferrais † (7 Dec 1928 Succeeded - 23 Jan 1930 Died)
Carmelo Patané † (7 Jul 1930 Appointed - 3 Apr 1952 Died)
Guido Luigi Bentivoglio, O. Cist. † (3 Apr 1952 Succeeded - 16 Jul 1974 Retired)
Domenico Picchinenna † (16 Jul 1974 Succeeded - 1 Jun 1988 Retired)
Luigi Bommarito † (1 Jun 1988 Appointed - 7 Jun 2002 Retired)
Salvatore Gristina (7 Jun 2002 Appointed - 8 Jan 2022 Retired)
Luigi Renna (8 Jan 2022 Appointed - )

Date	Event	From	To
Diocese of Catania
1st Century	Erected		Diocese of Catania (erected)
12 September 1816	Territory Lost	Diocese of Catania Archdiocese of Messina	Diocese of Caltagirone (erected)
17 March 1817	Territory Lost	Diocese of Catania	Diocese of Nicosia (erected)
3 July 1817	Territory Lost	Diocese of Catania	Diocese of Piazza Armerina (erected)
27 June 1844	Territory Lost	Diocese of Catania Archdiocese of Messina	Diocese of Acireale (erected)
Archdiocese of Catania
4 September 1859	Elevated	Diocese of Catania	Archdiocese of Catania
2 December 2000	Elevated		Archdiocese of Catania (became a Metropolitan)

Year Catholics Total Population Percent Catholic Diocesan Priests Religious Priests Total Priests Catholics Per Priest Permanent Deacons Male Religious Female Religious Parishes Source

Archdiocese of Catania

1886 222,014 .0% 488 0 49 OTC

1949 445,000 450,000 98.9% 311 182 493 902 303 911 83 ap1951

1959 547,000 555,100 98.5% 300 212 512 1,068 433 1,311 111 ap1960

1969 625,379 .0% 309 233 542 0 444 1,342 123 ap1971

1980 668,803 672,953 99.4% 275 252 527 1,269 335 1,172 143 ap1981

1990 700,000 725,370 96.5% 249 232 481 1,455 295 1,021 148 ap1991

1999 695,000 720,198 96.5% 259 204 463 1,501 19 243 838 152 ap2000

2000 716,000 731,056 97.9% 264 151 415 1,725 20 184 573 152 ap2001

2001 716,000 731,056 97.9% 267 151 418 1,712 20 184 573 152 ap2002

2002 695,000 709,682 97.9% 273 183 456 1,524 32 215 631 152 ap2003

2003 695,000 703,946 98.7% 274 176 450 1,544 34 223 658 153 ap2004

2004 724,332 733,656 98.7% 266 159 425 1,704 35 202 709 154 ap2005

2006 724,886 734,218 98.7% 259 141 400 1,812 34 176 991 155 ap2007

2013 737,000 746,999 98.7% 237 99 336 2,193 41 109 379 157 ap2014

2016 736,700 746,549 98.7% 228 118 346 2,129 55 134 358 157 ap2017

2019 742,400 748,736 99.2% 234 132 366 2,028 62 143 249 157 ap2020

2021 726,000 732,140 99.2% 223 132 355 2,045 64 141 114 157 ap2022

2023 715,900 721,900 99.2% 218 101 319 2,244 66 107 245 157 ap2024

Year	Catholics	Total Population	Percent Catholic	Diocesan Priests	Religious Priests	Total Priests	Catholics Per Priest	Permanent Deacons	Male Religious	Female Religious	Parishes	Source
Archdiocese of Catania
1886		222,014	.0%			488	0				49	OTC
1949	445,000	450,000	98.9%	311	182	493	902		303	911	83	ap1951
1959	547,000	555,100	98.5%	300	212	512	1,068		433	1,311	111	ap1960
1969		625,379	.0%	309	233	542	0		444	1,342	123	ap1971
1980	668,803	672,953	99.4%	275	252	527	1,269		335	1,172	143	ap1981
1990	700,000	725,370	96.5%	249	232	481	1,455		295	1,021	148	ap1991
1999	695,000	720,198	96.5%	259	204	463	1,501	19	243	838	152	ap2000
2000	716,000	731,056	97.9%	264	151	415	1,725	20	184	573	152	ap2001
2001	716,000	731,056	97.9%	267	151	418	1,712	20	184	573	152	ap2002
2002	695,000	709,682	97.9%	273	183	456	1,524	32	215	631	152	ap2003
2003	695,000	703,946	98.7%	274	176	450	1,544	34	223	658	153	ap2004
2004	724,332	733,656	98.7%	266	159	425	1,704	35	202	709	154	ap2005
2006	724,886	734,218	98.7%	259	141	400	1,812	34	176	991	155	ap2007
2013	737,000	746,999	98.7%	237	99	336	2,193	41	109	379	157	ap2014
2016	736,700	746,549	98.7%	228	118	346	2,129	55	134	358	157	ap2017
2019	742,400	748,736	99.2%	234	132	366	2,028	62	143	249	157	ap2020
2021	726,000	732,140	99.2%	223	132	355	2,045	64	141	114	157	ap2022
2023	715,900	721,900	99.2%	218	101	319	2,244	66	107	245	157	ap2024

Note: Any changes in boundaries over time are not indicated in the above table.

Affiliated Bishops, Deceased

Pietro de Alagona, O.F.M. † (Bishop: 5 Aug 1388 to 1396)
Tommaso Asinari, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 5 Feb 1411)
Camillo Astalli-Pamphilj † (Archbishop (Personal Title): 4 Jul 1661; Bishop: 25 Jul 1661 to 21 Dec 1663)
Arias de Avalos † (Bishop: 14 Feb 1449 to 1450)
Guglielmo Belloni (Bellomo) † (Bishop: 2 Oct 1450 to 1472)
Guido Luigi Bentivoglio, O. Cist. † (Coadjutor Archbishop: 30 Mar 1949; Archbishop: 3 Apr 1952 to 16 Jul 1974)
Francesco di Paola Berretta † (Auxiliary Bishop: 28 Jan 1828)
Angelo Boccamazza † (Bishop: 1257 to 1289)
Luigi Bommarito † (Archbishop: 1 Jun 1988 to 7 Jun 2002)
Michelangelo Bonadies, O.F.M. † (Bishop: 22 Apr 1665 to 27 Aug 1686)
Ottavio Branciforte † (Bishop: 2 Mar 1638 to 14 Jun 1646)
Alessandro Burgos, O.F.M. Conv. † (Bishop: 20 Feb 1726 to 20 Jul 1726)
Antonio Caff † (Priest: 19 Dec 1857; Auxiliary Bishop: 3 Jul 1882 to 12 Oct 1895)
Mauro Cali, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 1408 to 1410)
Francesco de Campulo † (Bishop: 1474 to 1475)
Oddo Capocci † (Bishop: 1254)
Luigi Caracciolo † (Bishop: 9 Mar 1530 to 1 Sep 1536)
Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † (Bishop: 18 Jan 1524 to 24 Jul 1524)
Nicola Maria Caracciolo † (Bishop: 6 Jan 1537 to 9 Jan 1567)
Scipione Caracciolo † (Bishop: 24 Jul 1524 to 28 Oct 1529)
Francesco Antonio Carafa, C.R. † (Archbishop (Personal Title): 24 Nov 1687 to 26 Aug 1692)
Alfonso Carrillo de Albornoz † (Bishop: 8 Nov 1486 to 27 Jun 1496)
Antonio Maria Cesareo †
Juan Álvaro Cienfuegos Villazón, S.J. † (Archbishop (Personal Title): 20 Jan 1721; Bishop: 26 May 1722 to 21 Feb 1725)
Francesco Maria Cirino, C.R. †
Pompeo Colonna † (Administrator: 27 Feb 1523 to 18 Jan 1524)
Jaime de Conchillos, O. de M. † (Bishop: 25 Feb 1509 to 1 Oct 1512)
Juan Corrionero † (Bishop: 2 Mar 1589 to 9 Jul 1592)
Vincenzo Cutelli † (Bishop: 11 Sep 1577 to 30 Jan 1589)
Giuliano della Rovere † (Bishop: 13 Jan 1473 to 23 May 1474)
Corrado Maria Deodato de Moncada † (Bishop: 10 May 1773 to 23 Oct 1813)
Francisco Desprats † (Bishop: 20 Mar 1498 to 9 Feb 1500)
Bl. Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet, O.S.B. † (Archbishop: 22 Feb 1867 to 4 Apr 1894)
Antonino Faraone † (Bishop: 9 Feb 1569 to 29 Jul 1572)
Emilio Ferrais † (Auxiliary Bishop: 11 Apr 1911; Coadjutor Archbishop: 12 Dec 1925; Archbishop: 7 Dec 1928 to 23 Jan 1930)
Salvator Ferro de Berardis † (Bishop: 16 Mar 1818 to 15 Dec 1819)
Leonardo Fieschi † (Bishop: 10 Jan 1304 to 21 Mar 1331)
Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè † (Priest: 22 May 1869 to 9 Aug 1883; Archbishop: 18 Mar 1895 to 7 Dec 1928)
Pietro Galletti † (Bishop: 28 Nov 1729 to 6 Apr 1757)
Giovanni Gatto † (Bishop: 18 Aug 1475 to 8 Feb 1479)
Gabriello Maria Gravina, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 23 Sep 1816 to 24 Nov 1817)
Pietro Gravina Luzzena † (Priest: 24 Mar 1787; Auxiliary Bishop: 11 Jul 1836 to 1855)
Nicola de Grelis, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 24 Nov 1339 to 1342)
Marco Antonio Gussio † (Bishop: 22 Aug 1650 to Jul 1660)
Jean de Luna † (Bishop: 30 May 1348 to 1355)
Bernardo Margarit, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 8 Feb 1479 to 1486)
Innocenzo Massimi † (Bishop: 1 Jul 1624 to 21 Aug 1633)
Salvatore Nicolosi † (Priest: 22 Oct 1944 to 21 Mar 1963)
Gerardo Odónis, O.F.M. † (Administrator: 27 Nov 1342 to 1348)
Domenico Orlando, O.F.M. Conv. † (Bishop: 24 Nov 1823 to 21 Apr 1839)
Juan Orozco de Arce † (Bishop: 11 Aug 1574 to 28 Mar 1576)
Gentile Orsini, O.P. † (Bishop: 1296 to 1303)
Andrea de Pace, O.F.M. † (Bishop: 1409)
Gauthier Pagliari † (Bishop: 1207 - )
Mariano Palermo †
Salvatore Pappalardo † (Priest: 12 Apr 1941 to 7 Dec 1965)
Carmelo Patané † (Archbishop: 7 Jul 1930 to 3 Apr 1952)
Giovanni Fortunato Paternò † (Priest: 5 Apr 1783; Auxiliary Bishop: 17 Nov 1823 to 8 Mar 1834)
Francesco Pennisi † (Priest: 21 Aug 1921 to 11 Jul 1950)
Giovanni Pesce, O.F.M. † (Bishop: 21 Nov 1431 to 3 Feb 1447)
Domenico Picchinenna † (Coadjutor Archbishop: 29 May 1971; Archbishop: 16 Jul 1974 to 1 Jun 1988)
Giovanni (Jean) de Podionucis (Puinoix), O.P. † (Bishop: 28 Feb 1418 to 1431)
Gaspar Ponz † (Bishop: 4 Apr 1513 to 14 Oct 1520)
Simone del Pozzo, O.P. † (Bishop: 16 Dec 1378 to 1396)
Giovanni de Primis, O.S.B. † (Administrator: 3 Feb 1447 to 21 Jan 1449)
Diego Ramírez de Guzmán † (Bishop: 26 Jun 1500 to 23 Oct 1508)
Giovanni Domenico Rebiba † (Bishop: 11 Dec 1595 to 6 Feb 1604)
Felice Regano (Regnano) † (Bishop: 11 Jul 1839; Archbishop (Personal Title): 4 Sep 1859 to 30 Mar 1861)
Francesco Ricceri †
Luigi Ricceri, S.D.B. †
Andreas Riggio † (Bishop: 9 Mar 1693 to 15 Dec 1717)
Juan Rodríguez Daza † (Bishop: 27 Jun 1496 to 14 Feb 1498)
Raimundo Rubí, O. Cart. † (Bishop: 26 Nov 1727 to 20 Jan 1729)
Juan Ruiz Villoslada † (Bishop: 5 Dec 1605 to 1609)
Matthäus Schiner (Schinner) † (Administrator: 1 Nov 1520 to 30 Sep 1522)
Bonaventura Secusio, O.F.M. Obs. † (Patriarch (Personal Title): 10 Jun 1609 to Mar 1618)
Pedro Serra † (Bishop: 1396 to 22 Sep 1397)
Nicolò Stizzia †
Juan Torres de Osorio † (Bishop: 19 Oct 1619 to 29 May 1624)
Antonio Maria Trigona † (Auxiliary Bishop: 31 Mar 1806 to 28 Jul 1817)
Gaetano Maria Giuseppe Benedetto Placido Vincenzo Trigona e Parisi † (Priest: 18 Jun 1791 to 3 Jul 1817)
Elie de Vaudron † (Bishop: 14 May 1376 to 1388)
Salvatore Ventimiglia, C.O. † (Bishop: 19 Dec 1757 to 11 Dec 1771)
Pio Vittorio Vigo † (Auxiliary Bishop: 13 Jan 1981 to 7 Mar 1985)
Marziale , O.S.B. † (Bishop: 4 Dec 1355 to 1375)
Nicola † (Bishop: 13 Mar 1332 to 1339)
Roberto † (Bishop: 1398)

Source(s)

Diocese of Catania
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 1, Page 176, and Page 177
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 2, Page 122
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 159
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 141, and Page 142
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 150, and Page 151
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 156
- Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Volume 1, Page 944, to Page 945
Archdiocese of Catania
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 93, Page 128, and Page 129

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