Diocese of Cefalù

Diocese of Cefalù

Dioecesis Cephaludensis
Cefalù Cathedral
Location
CountryItaly
Ecclesiastical provincePalermo
Statistics
Area1,718 km2 (663 sq mi)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2023)
  • 115,318
  • 112,448  (97.5%)
Parishes53
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established1131 (894–895 years ago)
CathedralBasilica Cattedrale della Trasfigurazione
Secular priests56 (diocesan)
17 (Religious Orders)
10 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
PopeLeo XIV
BishopGiuseppe Marciante
Bishops emeritusVincenzo Manzella
Map
Website
Diocesan web site

The Diocese of Cefalù (Latin: Dioecesis Cephaludensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in north-central Sicily. Under the Greek church in the 8th and 9th centuries, it was a suffragan of the metropolitanate of Syracuse in the Patriarchate of Constantinople. When the Latin rite diocese was founded under the Normans, in 1131, it became a suffragan of the archdiocese of Messina. In 2000, Pope John Paul II made the diocese of Cefalù a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Palermo.