Diocese of Montefiascone

Diocese of Montefiascone

The diocese of Montefiascone is a Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Italy. It was created from the diocese of Bagnorea in 1396, and in 1986 was united into the diocese of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino.[1]

History

Its first bishop was the French Augustinian Pierre d'Anguiscen (1376), a partisan of the antipope Clement VII. In 1435 the see was united with the diocese of Corneto, and so remained until, in 1854, Corneto became a part of the diocese of Civitavecchia.

Among its bishops were:

  • Bartolomeo Vitelleschi (1442)[2]
  • Domenico Delle Rovere (1478)[3]
  • Alessandro Farnese (1501), later Pope Paul III;[4]
  • Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora (1528-1548);[5]
  • Carlo Grassi (1555);[6]
  • the two brothers and cardinals Paolo Emilio Zacchia[7] (1601) and Ludovico Zacchia[8] (1605), both of whom did much for the building of the cathedral;
  • Gasparo Cecchinelli;[7]
  • Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni (1666), founder of the seminary and restorer of the cathedral, which was damaged by a fire in 1670;[9]
  • the scholar Cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo (1687), who came from the diocese of Padua, and who gave great assistance after the earthquake of 1695;and founded the Maestre Pie Filippini[10]
  • Cardinal Pompeo Aldrovandi (1734);[11]
  • Francesco Maria Banditi (1772);[12]
  • the scholar Giuseppe Garampi (1776), who gave its library to the seminary;[13]
  • Cardinal Giovanni Sifredo Maury (1794);[14]
  • Cardinal Bonaventura Gazzola (1820)[15]
  • Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Velzi (1832)[16]
  • Gabriele Ferretti (1837);[17]
  • Filippo de Angelis (1838);[18]
  • Nicola Mattei Baldini
  • Niccola Clarelli Parracciani (1844);[19]
  • Conceto Focacetti
  • Giovanni Rosi
  • Domenico Rinaldini

Notes

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainHerbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. 


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