Roman Catholic Diocese of Piazza Armerina


The Italian Catholic diocese of Piazza Armerina is in Sicily. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Agrigento.

History

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 of Siracusa. Its first bishop was Girolamo Aprile e Benzo. In 2013 in the diocese of Piazza Armerina there was one priest for every 1,588 Catholics.

Bishops