Archdiocese of Fermo

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The Archdiocese of Fermo is a Roman Catholic territory in northern Italy, with the episcopal see in the city of Fermo, Marche. As of 2004, it included 269,953 baptized inhabitants.

Its includes the following suffragan dioceses:

Ascoli Piceno
Camerino-San Severino Marche
Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia
San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto

The current titular is Luigi Conti.

[edit] History

Boniface IX established a university there.

Local legend attributes the first preaching of the Gospel at Fermo to Saint Apollinarius and Saint Maro. The martyrdom of the bishop, St. Alexander, with seventy companions, is placed in the persecution of Decius (250), and the martyrdom of St. Philip under Aurelian (270-75). Among the noteworthy bishops are were Sigismondo Zanettini (1584), under whom Fermo was made the seat of an archdiocese and Alessandro Borgia.