Diocese of Chioggia

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The Italian Catholic diocese of Chioggia is in the Veneto. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Venice.[1]

[edit] History

Chioggia in antiquity was known as Fossa Clodia; in the Middle Ages as Clugia. In 1106, Enrico Grancarolo, Bishop of the island of Malamocco, then nearly deserted, transferred his see to Chioggia.

Other bishops were:

  • the Dominican Marco Medici (1578), a theologian at the Council of Trent
  • Gabriello Fiamma (1584), one of the greatest orators of his time.

Cardinal Pietro Bembo was a canon of the cathedral.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Catholic Hierarchy page
  2. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia article

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

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