Diocese of Montefiascone
The diocese of Montefiascone is a Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Italy. It was created from the diocese of Bagnorea in 1396, and in 1986 was united into the diocese of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino.[1]
History
Its first bishop was the French Augustinian Pierre d'Anguiscen (1376), a partisan of the antipope Clement VII. In 1435 the see was united with the diocese of Corneto, and so remained until, in 1854, Corneto became a part of the diocese of Civitavecchia.
Among its bishops were:
- Bartolomeo Vitelleschi (1442)[2]
- Domenico Delle Rovere (1478)[3]
- Alessandro Farnese (1501), later Pope Paul III;[4]
- Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora (1528-1548);[5]
- Carlo Grassi (1555);[6]
- the two brothers and cardinals Paolo Emilio Zacchia[7] (1601) and Laudivio Zacchia[8] (1605), both of whom did much for the building of the cathedral;
- Gasparo Cecchinelli;[7]
- Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni (1666), founder of the seminary and restorer of the cathedral, which was damaged by a fire in 1670;[9]
- the scholar Cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo (1687), who came from the diocese of Padua, and who gave great assistance after the earthquake of 1695;and founded the Maestre Pie Filippini[10]
- Cardinal Pompeo Aldrovandi (1734);[11]
- Francesco Maria Banditi (1772);[12]
- the scholar Giuseppe Garampi (1776), who gave its library to the seminary;[13]
- Cardinal Giovanni Sifredo Maury (1794);[14]
- Cardinal Bonaventura Gazzola (1820)[15]
- Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Velzi (1832)[16]
- Gabriele Ferretti (1837);[17]
- Filippo de Angelis (1838);[18]
- Nicola Mattei Baldini
- Niccola Clarelli Parracciani (1844);[19]
- Conceto Focacetti
- Giovanni Rosi
- Domenico Rinaldini
Notes
- ↑ Catholic Hierarchy page
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1444b.htm#Vitelleschi
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1478.htm#Dellarovere
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1493.htm#Farnese
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1534.htm#Sforza
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1570.htm#Grassi
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1599.htm#Zacchia
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1626.htm#Zacchia
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1664.htm#Paluzzi
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1686.htm#Barbarigo
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1734.htm#Aldrovandi
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1775-iii.htm#Banditi
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1785.htm#Garampi
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1794.htm#Maury
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1824.htm#Gazola
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1832.htm#Velzi
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1838-iii.htm#Ferretti
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1838-ii.htm#Angelis
- ↑ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1844.htm#Clarelli
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.