Roman Catholic Diocese of Città di Castello

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Diocese of Città di Castello

Dioecesis Civitatis Castelli o Tifernatensis
Città di Castello Cathedral
Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical provincePerugia-Città della Pieve
Statistics
Area820 km2 (320 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2006)
60,060
58,900 (98.1%)
Parishes60
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established7th century
CathedralBasilica Cattedrale di Ss. Florido e Amanzio
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopDomenico Cancian, F.A.M.
Bishops emeritusPellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, O.F.M. Cap.
Website
www.webdiocesi.chiesacattolica.it

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Città di Castello (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Castelli o Tifernatensis) is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve, in the central Italian region of Umbria.[1][2]

Its cathedral episcopal see is a Minor basilica: Basilica Cattedrale di Ss. Florido e Amanzio Basilica, dedicated to Saints Floridus (the diocesan patron saint) and Amantius, in Città di Castello. The province and diocese have a Marian second Minor Basilica: Santuario-Basilica della Madonna del Transito Santuario, in Canoscio.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 62,600 Catholics (96.9% of 64,600 total) on 820 km² in 60 parishes and 10 missions with 69 priests (51 diocesan, 18 religious), 11 deacons, 153 lay religious (21 brothers, 132 sisters) and 4 seminarians.

History

During the persecution of Diocletian, St. Crescentianus, a Roman knight, and ten others suffered martyrdom at Tifernum. The bishopric was erected circa 450 AD. The first-known bishop of this see was Ennodius, present at a Roman council (465) under Pope Hilary. In 550, Fantalogus, by order of the Ostrogothic king Totila, took and destroyed the city then known as Tifernum or Civitas Tiberina. Città di Castello was later rebuilt around a castle, giving origin to the name used today. At the time of the sack of the city by Fantalogus, the bishop was Florius, later a friend of Gregory the Great.

In 711 Arian Longobards put to death the bishop of the city, Albertus, and his deacon Britius.

In 590 it gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Sant'Angelo in Vado.

By the Donation of Pepin (752), it became subject to the Holy See. It lost territories in 1013, to establish the Abbacy nullius of Sansepolcro, and on 1325.06.19 to establish the Diocese of Cortona. In 1375 Città di Castello joined in the insurrection of other cities of the Papal States. Cardinal Robert of Geneva (later antipope as Clement VII), undertook to recapture it with Breton mercenaries, but was repulsed. Under Pope Martin V, however, it was taken by Braccio da Montone (1420). Later, Nicolò Vitelli, with the help of Florence and Milan, became absolute ruler.

In 1474 Pope Sixtus IV sent there his nephew, CardinalGiuliano della Rovere (later Pope Julius II). After fruitless negotiations he laid siege to the city, but Vitelli did not surrender until he learned that the command of the army had been given to Duke Federigo of Urbino. The following year Vitelli tried unsuccessfully to recapture the city; fear of Cesare Borgia alone induced him to desist.[3]

On 1515.09.22 it lost more territory to the Abbacy nullius of Sansepolcro.

Episcopal ordinaries

(all Roman Rite Italians)

Suffragan Bishops of Città di Castello
Incomplete, lacking most incumbents from the first half millennium
BIOs TO ELABORATE
  • Costantino Bonelli (7 Feb 1560 – 4 April 1572 Died)
  • Antimo Marchesani (2 June 1572 – 27 Oct 1581 Died)
  • Ludovico Bentivoglio (26 Nov 1581 – 19 Sep 1602 Died)
  • Valeriano Muti (15 Nov 1602 – 19 March 1610 Died)[4][5]
  • Luca Semproni (26 April 1610 – 15 Jan 1616 Died)[4]
  • Evangelista Tornioli, O.S.B. (23 March 1616 – 27 Nov 1630 Died)[6]
  • Cesare Raccagna (5 July 1632 – 24 Dec 1646 Died)[4]
  • Francesco Boccapaduli (6 May 1647 – 1 Oct 1672 Resigned)[4][7]
  • Giuseppe Maria Sebastiani, O.C.D. (3 Oct 1672 – 15 Oct 1689 Died)
  • Giuseppe Musotti (17 April 1690 – 1692 Resigned)
  • Luca Antonio Eustachi (9 March 1693 – 4 Nov 1715 Died)
  • Alessandro Francesco Codebò (8 June 1716 – 30 April 1733 Died)
  • Ottavio Gasparini (20 Jan 1734 – 12 Sep 1749 Died)
  • Giovanni Battista Lattanzi (23 Feb 1750 – 23 Feb 1782 Resigned)
  • Pietro Boscarini (23 Sep 1782 – 9 Sep 1801 Died)
  • Paolo Bartoli (23 Dec 1801 – 19 Jan 1810 Died)
  • Francesco Antonio Mondelli (26 Sep 1814 – 2 March 1825 Died)
  • Giovanni Alessandro Muzi (19 Dec 1825 – 30 Nov 1849 Died)
  • Letterio Turchi (20 May 1850 – 8 Nov 1861 Died)
  • Paolo Antonio Micaleff (Micallef), O.S.A. (21 Dec 1863 – 27 Oct 1871), next Archbishop of Pisa)
  • Giuseppe Moreschi (24 Nov 1871 – 9 Nov 1887 Died)
  • Domenico Fegatelli (1 June 1888 – 1 June 1891), next Bishop of Rimini)
  • Dario Mattei-Gentili (1 June 1891 – 29 Nov 1895), next Archbishop of Perugia)
  • Aristide Golfieri (29 Nov 1895 – 1 May 1909 Died)
  • Giustino Sanchini (12 July 1909 – Did Not Take Effect)
  • Carlo Liviero (8 Jan 1910 – 7 July 1932 Died)
  • Maurizio Francesco Crotti, O.F.M. Cap. (20 March 1933 – 25 July 1934 Died)
  • Filippo Maria Cipriani (29 Sep 1934 – 8 Oct 1956 Died)
  • Luigi Cicuttini (30 Nov 1956 – 7 Sep 1966 Resigned)
  • Cesare Pagani (22 Jan 1972 – 21 Nov 1981), next Archbishop of Perugia)
  • Carlo Urru (21 April 1982 – 7 Feb 1991 Retired)
  • Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, O.F.M. Cap. (7 Feb 1991 – 16 June 2007 Retired)
  • Domenico Cancian, F.A.M. (16 June 2007 – ...)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Diocese of Città di Castello " GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved 26 March 2017
  2. ^ "Diocese of Città di Castello" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  3. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia article
  4. ^ a b c d Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. p. 152.
  5. ^ "Bishop Valeriano Muti" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved December 4, 2016
  6. ^ Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus. HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V. p. 152.
  7. ^ "Archbishop Francesco Boccapaduli" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 20, 2017

Sources and external links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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