Archdiocese of Agrigento
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The Italian Catholic archdiocese of Agrigento, in Sicily, was elevated to archiepiscopal status in 2000.[1] The historic diocese of Agrigento was also known as the diocese of Grigenti, and diocese of Agrigentum. It used to be a suffragan of the archdiocese of Monreale.
[edit] History
Girgenti (the Greek Acragas, Roman Agrigentum) venerates St. Libertinus as its earliest apostle; he is said to have been sent by St. Peter. The earliest bishop of certain date is St. Potamius, a contemporary of Pope Agapetus I (535-36).
St. Gregory I, Bishop of Agrigentum, said to have been martyred in 262, is probably only a double of the homonymous bishop who was a contemporary of Gregory the Great. The list of bishops, interrupted by the Saracen invasion, began again in 1093 with St. Gerlando.
Other bishops are:
- Rinaldo di Acquaviva (1244), who restored the cathedral and crowned King Manfred, for which latter action he was excommunicated by Pope Alexander IV;
- Matteo Gimmara.[2]
