Archdiocese of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo Archidioecesis Potentina-Murana-Marsicensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo |
Statistics | |
Area | 1,634 km2 (631 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2019) 156,955 154,000 (est.) |
Parishes | 60 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 5th century |
Cathedral | Basilica Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta e S. Gerardo Vescovo (Potenza) |
Co-cathedral | Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta o S. Giorgio (Marsico Nuovo) Concattedrale di S. Nicola (Muro Lucano) |
Secular priests | 81 (diocesan 28 (religious orders) 18 Permanent Deacons |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Davide Carbonaro |
Bishops emeritus | Salvatore Ligorio Agostino Superbo |
Map | |
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Website | |
Archdiocese web site (in Italian) |
The Archdiocese of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo (Latin: Archidioecesis Potentina-Murana-Marsicensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Basilicata, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year the Diocese of Muro Lucano was united into the Archdiocese of Potenza e Marsico Nuovo, which had been elevated to an archdiocese in 1973, and made a metropolitan see in 1976. The historical Diocese of Potenza was united with the Diocese of Marsico Nuovo in 1818.[1][2]
The Ecclesiastical Province of Potenza (Basilicata) is composed of Potenza and five suffragan dioceses: the Archdiocese of Acerenza, the Archdiocese of Matera-Irsina, the Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, the Diocese of Tricarico, and the Diocese of Tursi-Lagonegro.