Roman Catholic Diocese of Fidenza

The Italian Catholic diocese of Fidenza, in the province of Parma, was until 1927 the historical diocese of Borgo San Donnino. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola.^[1]

History

Borgo San Donnino became an episcopal see in 1601, under Pope Clement VIII, having until then been governed ecclesiastically by a provost with full faculties, subject directly to the Holy See. The last provost, Papiro Picedi da Castel Vezzano, was the first Bishop of Borgo San Donnino.

Other bishops were:

• Alfonso Pozzi (1620);
• Ranuccio Scoti (1626), papal nuncio under Pope Urban VIII, particularly to Switzerland;
• Filippo Casoni (1650), who urged Ferdinando Ughelli to write his Italia Sacra;
• Alessandro Parravicini, a Benedictine (1660);
• Gaetano Garimberti (1675);
• Alessandro Roncovieri (1700);
• Gerardo Giandemaria (1719);
• Girolamo Baiardi (1753);
• Alessandro Garimberti (1776)

References

• Battandier, Ann. pont. cath. (Paris, 1907)

Notes

1. ^ Catholic Hierarchy page

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia, Borgo San-Donnino

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.