Roman Catholic Diocese of Bagnoregio

The diocese of Bagnoregio is a former Roman Catholic territory in Lazio, Italy.[1][2]

History

According to tradition, St. Ansanus preached the Gospel here in the third century and the church of Santa Maria delle Carceri outside the Alban Gate was said to have been built above the prison in which he was confined. There are no records as to the date of the erection of the diocese but a letter of Pope St. Gregory the Great is authority for the statement that about the year 600 the newly elected deacon John was appointed bishop of Bagnoregio, the earliest extant mention of a bishop of the see, but he was doubtlessly not the first bishop.

The diocese grew over the centuries, gaining terrotories around 90 from the dioceses of Perugia and Orvieto and incorporating in 1015 what had been the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bomarzo.

Up to the time of pope Urban V, Montefiascone was part of the Diocese of Bagnorea (Bagnoregio's Latin name), but was made by this pontiff the seat of a new diocese. Ferdinando Ughelli, without any documentary proof, claims the Diocese of Bagnorea was joined to the Diocese of Viterbo on 4 February 1449, but neglects to mention when they were reestablished as separate dioceses.

After an earthquake in 1695, the cathedral that had been in Civita di Bagnoregio was replaced by one at Bagnoregio itself.

On September 30, 1986 it was one of several former bishoprics to be suppressed and merged into the neighbouring Diocese of Viterbo e Tuscania, that of Viterbo, by whose bishop it was already administered since the death of the last diocesan bishop of Bagnoregio in 1971.[3][4][5][6] The merged bishopric then took the name of Diocese of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania and San Martino al Monte Cimino, in 1991 again shortened to Bishopric of Viterbo.

Resident suffragan bishops

Titular see

No longer a residential bishopric, Bagnoregio is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[25]

Since the diocese's nominal restoration is as titular see, it has had the following incumbents, both of the second (archiepiscopal) rank :

References

  1. "Diocese of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  2. Titular Episcopal See of Bagnoregio GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 5, 2016
  3. Francesco Lanzoni, Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604), vol. I, Faenza 1927, pp. 546-547
  4. Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia della loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, vol. VI, Venice 1847, pp. 23-49
  5. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, pp. 685-686
  6. Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1, pp. 278-279; vol. 2, p. 166
  7. "Bishop Benedetto Paconati" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  8. "Bishop Corrado da Matelica, O.F.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  9. "Bishop Niccolò Ruggeri, O.F.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  10. "Bishop Agostino da Bagnoregio, O.S.A." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  11. "Bishop Angelo Pisani" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  12. "Bishop Pietro Bocca" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  13. "Bishop Antonio da San Gimignano" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  14. "Bishop Ferdinando Castiglia" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  15. "Bishop Corrado Manili" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  16. "Bishop Ugo de Spina" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  17. "Bishop Giovanni Mercurio de Vipera" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  18. "Bishop Francisco de Solís Quiñones y Montenegro, O.S." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  19. "Bishop Nicolò Vernely (Verneey)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  20. "Bishop Galeazzo Gegald (Regardus)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  21. "Bishop Umberto Locati, O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  22. "Bishop Tommaso Sperandio Corbelli" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  23. "Bishop Francesco Serini" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  24. "Bishop Carlo Trotti" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  25. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 845

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