Roman Catholic Diocese of Massa Marittima-Piombino

Diocese of Massa Marittima-Piombino
Dioecesis Massana-Plumbinensis

Massa Marittima Cathedral
Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino
Statistics
Area 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2004)
127,677
126,000 (98.7%)
Parishes 53
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 5th century
Cathedral Basilica Cattedrale di Cerbone Vescovo (Massa Marittima)
Co-cathedral Chiesa Abbaziale di S. Antimo Martire (Piombino)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Carlo Ciattini
Map
Website
www.diocesimassamarittima.it

The Diocese of Massa Marittima-Piombino (Latin: Dioecesis Massana-Plumbinensis) is a Roman Catholic eccleasistical territory in central Italy, known as Diocese of Massa Marittima before 1978. It is a historic church territory in Tuscany, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Siena.[1][2]

The diocese has an area of 1,200 square kilometres, an overall population of 126,931, a Catholic population of 125,000, 60 priests, 4 permanent deacons, and 82 religious, and the present bishop, appointed on 15 December 2010, is Carlo Ciattini.

History

It was first mentioned in the eighth century. It grew at the expense of Populonia, an ancient city of the Etruscans. Populonia was besieged by Sulla, and in Strabo's time was already declining; later it suffered at the hands of Totila, of the Lombards, and in 817 of a Byzantine fleet. After this, the bishops of Populonia abandoned the town, and in the eleventh century, established their residence at Massa.

In 1226 Massa became a commune under the protection of Pisa. In 1307 it made an alliance with Siena, which was the cause of many wars between the two republics.

The first known Bishop of Populonia was Atellus (about 495); another was Saint Cerbonius (546), protector of the city, to whom Saint Gregory refers in his Dialogues. Among the bishops of Massa were Antonio da Massa Marittima (1430), a former minister general of the Franciscans, and legate of Pope Boniface IX; Leonardo Dati (1467), author of poetic satires; Alessandro Petrucci (1601), who embellished the cathedral and the episcopal palace; the Camaldolese Eusebio da Ciani (1719), who governed the diocese for fifty-one years. This see was at first suffragan of Pisa, but since 1458 of Siena.

Ordinararies

Diocese of Massa Marittima

Latin Name: Massanus
Erected: 5th Century
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Siena

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Diocese of Massa Marittima-Piombino

Name Changed: 14 May 1978
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Diocese of Massa Marittima-Piombino" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved february 29, 2016
  2. ↑ "Diocese of Massa Marittima-Piombino" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 11, 2016
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Massa Marittima". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

Co-cathedral in Piombino

Coordinates: 43°02′58″N 10°53′17″E / 43.0495°N 10.8881°E / 43.0495; 10.8881

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