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CEFALÙ

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DIOCESE OF CEFALÙ (CEPHALUDENSIS); CEPHALOEDIUM.

The city of the same name in the province of Palermo, in Sicily (Italy), is
situated nearly in the centre of the northern coast of the island. Destroyed by
the inhabitants of Messina, it was reconstructed about 1130 by King Roger I of
Sicily. Its first bishop was Nicetas who, in 869, assisted at the Eighth General
Council held at Constantinople for the trial of Photius. When Roger I rebuilt
the city, Tocelmo was bishop. Among its bishops were: Arduino II, suffered exile
twice on account of his opposition to Frederic II; Nicolò (1352) died in the
prison of Castel Grassario, and Fra Francesco of the ducal house of Gonzaga (d.
1587), founder of the first seminary opened in Sicily. The cathedral was built
by Roger I, and, though often restored, is a fine monument of Norman
architecture. The adjoining cloister, still kept in its primitive state, is
remarkable for graceful columns adorned with sculptures and arabesques. The
diocese is a suffragan of Palermo, it has 22 parishes, 300 secular clergy, 265
churches, chapels, and oratories, 160,320 inhabitants, and 24 houses of
religious (women).


SOURCES

CAPPELLETTI, Le chiese d'Italia (venice, 1844), XXI, 540; Annuario ecclesiastico
(1907), 386-87.


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Benigni, U. (1908). Cefalù. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New
York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03476a.htm

MLA citation. Benigni, Umberto. "Cefalù." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New
York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03476a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Ted Rego.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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