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Diocese of Alghero

Diocese of Alghero-Bosa
Dioecesis Algarensis-Bosanensis
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Alghero Cathedral
Location
Country  Italy
Ecclesiastical province Sassari
Statistics
Area 2,012 km2 (777 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2006)
106,250
106,050 (99.8%)
Parishes 61
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 8 December 1503
Cathedral Cattedrale di Beata Maria Vergine Immaculata Concezione (Alghero)
Co-cathedral Concattedrale di Beata Vergine Immaculata (Bosa)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Mauro Maria Morfino (), S.D.B.
Emeritus Bishops Antonio Vacca ()
Website
www.diocesialghero-bosa.it

The Diocese of Alghero-Bosa (Latin: Dioecesis Algarensis-Bosanensis) is a Latin Catholic bishopric, suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sassari, on Sardinia, insular Italy.

The Diocese has an area of 2,012; a total population of 106,300; a Catholic population of 105,650; 87 priests, 7 permanent deacons and 176 religious.

Its cathedral episcol see is the Marian Cattedrale di Beata Maria Vergine Immaculata Concezione, in Alghero, but it also has a Marian Co-Cathedral Concattedrale di Beata Vergine Immaculata Concattedrale di Beata Vergine Immaculata, in Bosa, Sassari, Sardegna Locate a former Cathedral: Chiesa San Pietro Chiesa San Pietro, also in Bosa, and a Minor Basilica Basilica della Neve Basilica della Neve, in Cuglieri, Oristano,

Alghero was built by the Doria of Genoa in 1102. In 1106 John, Bishop of Alghero, assisted at the consecration of the Church of the Trinity in Saccargia.

After a long period, the see was renewed and confirmed by Pope Julius II in his Papal Bull of 8 December 1503, splitting its territory off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sassari, from the suppressed Roman Catholic Diocese of Bisarcio, Diocese of Castro and Diocese of Ottana. Pietro Parens, a Genoese, became bishop; he was present at the Fifth Lateran Council in 1512.


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