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GIRGENTI

Sicily

Girgenti is a province in Sicily... [it] venerates Saint Libertinus as its earliest apostle; he is said to have been sent thither by Saint Peter. The earliest bishop of whose date we are certain is Saint Potamius, a contemporary of Pope Agapetus I (535-36). Saint 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 Saint Gregory the Great. 

The list of bishops, interrupted by the Saracen invasion, began again in 1093 with Saint Gerlando. Other bishops of note are: Rinaldo di Acquaviva (1244), who restored the cathedral and crowned King Manfred, for which latter action he was excommunicated by Alexander IV; and Fra Matteo Gimara, called the Blessed. Girgenti is a suffragan of Monreale, has 66 parishes and 381,000 souls, 10 religious houses for men, and 42 for women. It is also a centre for the Azione Cattolica Sociale in Sicily. 

From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

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