Bishopric of Camerino

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The Bishopric of Camerino was a Roman Catholic ecclesiasticl territory whose episcopal see was Camerino, a city in the province of Macerata in the central Italian Marche region, in the Apennines. Later the seat of an archbishopric, in 1986 it was included in the archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche.

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During the persecution of Decius in 249, the priest Porphyrius, master of the youthful martyr Venantius, and the Bishop Leontius suffered martyrdom at Camerino. Gerontius appears at the Council of Rome in 464/465.

Other bishops of the diocese were St. Ansovinus (816); Alberto degli Alberti (1437), prominent at the Council of Florence, where he was made cardinal and sent as legate by Pope Eugenius IV to Alfonso V of Aragon and René of Anjou, between whom he brought about a peace; Agapito Rufo (1465), of whom Pope Pius II said "that it was doubtful if there ever was a more joyous poet or a more illustrious orator" -- he was also a prudent and zealous pastor; Berardo Buongiovanni (1537), legate in Poland and present at the Council of Trent, where he gave proof of great erudition; Alfonso Binarino (1547) and Girolamo Bobo (1580), who distinguished themselves by their zeal for reform; Innocenzo del Bufalo (1601), papal legate to Henry II of France.

On September 30, 1986 the diocese was joined with the diocese of San Severino Marche into the new archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche[1].