The Diocese of Lugano (Latin: Dioecesis Luganensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Switzerland covering the canton of Ticino. The diocese immediately exempt to the Holy See. In 2004, there were 233,017 baptised of 306,846 inhabitants. It is currently ruled by the Bishop Pier Giacomo Grampa and has as its principal patron St. Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, and as a secondary patron Saint Abundius, Bishop of Como. The Diocese of Lugano was erected by a Bull of Leo XIII (7 September 1888). The territory covered is that of the Swiss canton of Ticino, where the population is almost entirely Catholic and Italian is the common language. More information...
According to PR-model, diocesilugano.ch is ranked 466,289th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 29,313th in Italian Wikipedia.
The website is placed before cmmrf.org and after nikolaevcentre.ru in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
