Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinerolo

Diocese of Pinerolo Dioecesis Pineroliensis
Pinerolo Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Turin
Statistics
Area	1,440 km2 (560 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 101,400 (est.) 81,200 (est.) (80.1%)
Parishes	62
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	23 December 1748
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Donato
Secular priests	67 (diocesan) 21 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Piergiorgio Debernardi
Map
Website
www.diocesipinerolo.it

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinerolo (Latin: Dioecesis Pineroliensis) is a Latin rite bishopric in the administrative province of Turin of Piedmont region, Northwestern Italy. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan archbishopric of Turin.

Its Cathedral episcopal see is Cattedrale di S. Donato (which dates from the ninth century, and has an architecturally significant campanile), in Pinerolo, which city also has the former Cathedral, now Chiesa San Verano ad Abbadia Alpina, and a Minor Basilica : Basilica di S. Maurizio, a Gothic church, from the belfry of which there is a superb view of the Alps and of the sub-Alpine plain.

Ecclesiastical history

• Established on 1748.12.23, at the request of king Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, as Diocese of Pinerolo / Pinerolien(sis) (Latin), on Piemontese territories split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Torino, and (mainly) from the suppressed Abbacy nullius of Santa Maria ad Abbadia Alpina, which provided Pinerolo’s episcopal see (it was founded in 1064 by Adelaide, Princess of Susa, in Abbadia Alpina, belonging to the Marca di Torino (March of Turin) and governed by the abbots of Pinerolo, even after the city had established itself as a commune (1200). From 1235, however, Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy exercised over the town a kind of protectorate, which in 1243 became absolute, and was exercised thereafter either by the house of Savoy)
• 1794: Lost territory to the Diocese of Susa
• In 1805, conformably with the wish of French emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte, the diocese was suppressed, its territory merged into the bishopric of Saluzzo
• Re-established on 1817.07.17 as Diocese of Pinerolo / Pinerolien(sis) (Latin), regaining its territory from the Diocese of Saluzzo

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Ordinaries

(all Roman rite, mostly Italians)

Suffragan Bishops of Pinerolo

• Giovanni Battista D’Orliè De Saint Innocent, Canons Regular of saint Augustine (C.R.S.A.) (1749.05.05 – died 1794.09.02)
• Giuseppe Maria Grimaldi (1797.08.06 – 1805.02.01), next Bishop of Aosta (Italy) (1805.02.01 – 1817.10.01), Bishop of Ivrea (Italy) (1805.02.01 – 1817.10.01), Metropolitan Archbishop of Vercelli (Italy) (1817.10.01 – death 1830.01.01)
• François-Marie Bigex (born France) (1817.10.01 – 1824.05.24), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Chambéry (France) ([1824.03.20] 1824.05.24 – death 1827.02.19)
• Pierre-Joseph Rey (born France) (1824.05.24 – 1832.07.02), next Bishop of Annecy (France) ([1832.06.13] 1832.07.02 – death 1842.01.31)
• Andreas Charvaz (born Italy) (1834.01.20 – 1848.05.09), next Titular Archbishop of Sebastia (1848.07.03 – 1852.09.27), Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova (Genua, Italy) (1852.09.27 – death 1870.10.18)
• Lorenzo Guglielmo Maria Renaldi (1849.05.20 – death 1873.07.23)
• Giovanni Domenico Vassarotti (1874.02.24 – death 1881.08.25)
• Filippo Chiesa (1881.11.20 – (?death) 1886.05.26)
• Giovanni Maria Sardi (1886.06.13 – death 1894.01.21)
• Giovanni Battista Rossi (1894.05.18 – death 1922.08.19)

TO COMPLETE

• ...
• Gaudenzio Binaschi (1930.01.20 – retired 1966.09.29), died 1968
  • Apostolic Administrator Bartolomeo Santo Quadri (1968.05.23 – 1972.03.18), Titular Bishop of Villa nova (1964.03.17 – 1973.02.10), previously Auxiliary Bishop of Pinerolo (1964.03.17 – 1966.10.11); later Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Narni (Italy) (1972.03.18 – 1973.02.10), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Terni (Italy) (1972.03.18 – 1973.02.10), Bishop of above Narni (1973.02.10 – 1983.05.31), Bishop of above Terni (1973.02.10 – 1983.05.31), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Amelia (Italy) (1973.02.10 – 1983.09.13), 'last' Metropolitan Archbishop of Modena (Italy) (1983.05.31 – 1986.09.30) and last Abbot Ordinary of Territorial Abbacy of Nonantola (Italy) (1983.05.31 – 1986.09.30), (sees merged) first Metropolitan Archbishop of Modena–Nonantola (Italy) (1986.09.30 – retired 1996.04.12), died 2008
• Massimo Giustetti (1974.03.21 – 1975.12.17), previously Titular Bishop of Celene (1972.07.01 – 1974.03.21) as Apostolic Administrator of Pinerolo (1972.07.01 – 1974.03.21); later Bishop of Mondovì (Italy) (1975.12.17 – 1986.12.03), Bishop of Biella (Italy) (1986.12.03 – 2001.07.13); died 2006
• Pietro Giachetti (1976.05.01 – retired 1998.07.07), died 2006
• Piergiorgio Debernardi (1998.07.07 – retired 2017.07.07)
• Bishop-elect Derio Olivero (2017.07.07 – ...), no previous prelature

Statistics and extent

As per 2014, it pastorally served 79,000 Catholics (82.3% of 96,000 total) on 1,440 km² in 62 parishes with 89 priests (64 diocesan, 25 religious), 16 deacons, 222 lay religious (30 brothers, 192 sisters) and 10 seminarians.

Parishes

The 62 parishes (by municipality) are all within the Piedmontese province of Turin^[1]

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Italy

Notes and references

Sources and references

• GCatholic, with Google map - data for all sections except parishes list
•  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Pinerolo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Pinerolo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

Bibliography

• Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, Venice 1858, vol. XIV, p. 287-326
• Indiocesi, Giornale degli insegnanti di religione della diocesi di Pinerolo (diocesan magazine)
• Papal bullas 'In sacrosancta', in Benedicti XIV Bullarium, vol. II, Prato 1846, pp. 462-481 and 'Bolla Beati Petri', in Bullarii Romani continuatio, vol. VII, parte 2º, Prato 1852, pp. 1490-1503
• Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 821
• Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 6, p. 338

Coordinates: 44°53′09″N 7°19′47″E / 44.8857°N 7.3298°E / 44.8857; 7.3298