Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan

Archdiocese of Milan Archidioecesis Mediolanensis Arcidiocesi di Milano
The Milan Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Statistics
Area	4,243 km2 (1,638 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2021) 5,608,331 4,908,331 (87.5%)
Parishes	1,107
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Ambrosian Rite Roman Rite
Established	1st century (diocese) 374 (archdiocese)
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Maria Nascente
Secular priests	1,712 (diocesan) 738 (Religious Orders) 156 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Mario Delpini
Auxiliary Bishops	Franco Agnesi Luca Raimondi [it][1] Giuseppe Natale Vegezzi [it][1]
Bishops emeritus	Angelo Scola Erminio De Scalzi Angelo Mascheroni
Map
Website
chiesadimilano.it

The Archdiocese of Milan (Italian: Arcidiocesi di Milano; Latin: Archidioecesis Mediolanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Italy which covers the areas of Milan, Monza, Lecco and Varese. It has long maintained its own Latin liturgical rite usage, the Ambrosian rite, which is still used in the greater part of the diocesan territory. Among its past archbishops, the better known are Ambrose, Charles Borromeo, Pope Pius XI and Pope Paul VI.

The Archdiocese of Milan is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province of Milan, which includes the suffragan dioceses of Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Crema, Cremona, Lodi, Mantova, Pavia, and Vigevano.^[2][3]

Milan's Archdiocese is the largest in Europe,^[4] and the one having the most priests in the world, with, as of 2021, 2,450 priests living in the diocese, among which 1,712 are secular priests.