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Archdiocese of Catania (Latin: Archidioecesis Catanensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Sicily, southern Italy, with its seat in Catania. It...

Catholic cathedral in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It was the seat of the Bishops of Catania until 1859, when the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese...

Foresta, barons of Imbaccari and a priest of the diocese of Catania. He was born in Piazza (diocese of Catania) in 1735 and died on 2 January 1824. Annuario...

witchcraft. Son of a noble Sicilian family, he was originally a Christian, and was even a candidate to assume the diocese of Catania. In that period the...

Agatha of Sicily (c. 231 – 251 AD) is a Christian saint. Her feast is on 5 February. Agatha was born in Catania, part of the Roman Province of Sicily...

of Catania 251 CE - Lava stream threatens the town. 535 CE – Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire takes Sicily. 4th–5th C. CE – Roman Catholic diocese of...

– 20 January 1729) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Catania (1727–1729). Raimundo Rubí was born in Barcelona, Spain on 18 October...

persecutions of Decius and Diocletian, were Saint Agatha, patron saint of the city, and Euplius. The Diocese of Catania was established at the end of the 6th...

catanese diocese. With Saint Agatha, he is a co-patron of Catania in Sicily. He is also the patron saint of Trevico and Francavilla di Sicilia. His feast day...

diocese of Cefalù for that of Catania, and Bishop Gatto returned to Cefalù from Catania. Gatto returned to the diocese of Cefalù on 8 February 1479. Pirro...

Leo of Catania, also known as the Thaumaturgus, or St Leo the Wonderworker in Sicily (May 703 or 709 – 20 February 789), was the fifteenth bishop of Catania...

pastoral visit by the vicar of the diocese of Catania in 1634, who noted the church had diverse altars. The church was in process of refurbishment when it was...

Metropolitan City of Catania on the east coast of Sicily. It is situated around 41 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Catania, which was also the capital of the province...

prelate who served as Bishop of Catania (1577–1589).[self-published source?] Cutelli was a native of Catania. He was a Doctor of theology and a Doctor in...

priest of the Diocese of Catania on 2 January 1993 by Luigi Bommarito, Archbishop of Catania. Baturi was parish priest of Valcorrente, a hamlet of Belpasso...

archdiocese of Agrigento. The diocese of Piazza Armerina was taken from the diocese of Catania, and was created in 1817. It was then a suffragan of the archdiocese...

Bishop of Catania (1595–1604) and Bishop of Ortona (1570–1595). On 8 November 1570, Giovanni Domenico Rebiba was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius...

who served as Bishop of Catania (1609–1618), Bishop of Messina (1605–1609), Bishop of Patti (1601–1605), the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1599–1618)...

of Messina (Latin: Archidioecesis Messanensis-Liparensis-Sanctae Luciae) is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church. It was founded as the Diocese...

time[vague] the diocese of Girgenti and diocese of Caltagirone also became suffragan to Monreale; but Siracusa, in 1844, and Catania, in 1860, became...