NICOSIA, DIOCESI DI

Nicosia, Diocese of

Volume VIII · p. 1093 · 1952

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

NICOSIA, DIOCESE OF. - In Sicily (Enna), a suffragan of Messina. Erected by Pius VII (17 March 1816), its first bishop, Gaetano M. Avarna, took possession in September 1818. The diocese has an area of