High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of L'Aquila (Latin: Archidioecesis Aquilanus) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. It was erected as the Diocese of L'Aquila on February 20, 1257 by Pope Alexander IV, and promoted to an archdiocese by Pope Pius IX on January 19, 1876. Pope Paul VI elevated it to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on August 15, 1972, with the suffragan sees of Avezzano and Sulmona–Valva. The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is San Massimo Cathedral; L'Aquila also contains the Basilica of San Bernardino da Siena. The current Archbishop of L'Aquila is Giuseppe Molinari, since June 6, 1998, and Giovanni D'Ercole, F.D.P. was named auxiliary bishop of L'Aquila on 16 November, 2009.

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