Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perugia–Città della Pieve

The Italian Catholic Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve (Latin: Archidioecesis Perusina-Civitatis Plebis) was historically the Diocese of Perugia. It became the Archdiocese of Perugia in 1882, but without suffragans. It acquired suffragan dioceses in 1972. It was united in 1986 with the Diocese of Città della Pieve.[1][2]

Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve Archidioecesis Perusina-Civitatis Plebis
Perugia Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Perugia-Città della Pieve
Coordinates	43.1125°N 12.3891°E
Statistics
Area	1,900 km^2 (730 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2013) 286,645 256,000 (89.3%)
Parishes	154
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	2nd century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Lorenzo (Perugia)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale di Ss. Gervasio e Protasio (Città della Pieve)
Secular priests	119 (diocesan) 76 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti
Auxiliary Bishops	Paolo Giulietti
Bishops emeritus	Giuseppe Chiaretti
Website
www.diocesi.perugia.it

History

In the martyrologies are found the names of the martyrs Constantius (Constantinus, whom some believe to have been a bishop), Florentius, and Felicissimus, who died at Perugia. Under the Emperor Decius one Decentius was bishop, according to the tradition; but the first bishop of whom there is any certain knowledge was St. Herculanus, killed by King Totila in 546; many admit there were two bishops and saints of this name, of whom the first is said to have died either in one of the great persecutions or under Julian the Apostate (Cappelletti).

Notable successors of St. Herculanus:

• Joannes, who consecrated Pope Pelagius I (566)
• Aventius (591)
• Laurentius (649)
• Benenatus (679))
• St. Asclepiodorus (about 700), whose relics were later taken to Metz
• Conon (998) and Andreas (1033), who had various controversies with the abbots of San Pietro
• Joannes (1105), who consecrated the monastery of Monte Corona
• Vivianus, who was present at the council of 1179
• Giovanni (1206), who gave a convent to St. Francis
• Salvio de' Salvi (1231), a learned prelate, who restored Santo Stefano, the ancient cathedral
• Francesco Poggi, O. Min. (1312), who built S. Domenico nuovo
• Andrea Bontempi (1339), a cardinal, and legate general of Umbria
• Andrea Giovanni Baglione (1434), who filled several convents with reformed religious
• Dionisio Vannucci (1482), who erected the altar of the chapel del Sacro Anello
• Giovanni Lopez (1492), a cardinal who enjoyed influence under Pope Alexander VI
• Trilo Baglione (1501), deposed by Alexander VI for having taken up arms against Cesare Borgia and restored to his see by Pope Julius II
• Antonio Ferreri (1506), who suspected by Julius II died in the Castle of S. Angelo in 1508
• Cardinal Agostino Spinola (1510), under whom the canons of the cathedral, who since the twelfth century had lived according to the Rule of St. Augustine, were relieved of that rule
• Giacomo Simoneta (1535), a cardinal
• Fulvio Corneo (1550), reformer of the diocese and founder of the seminary
• Ippolito Corneo (1553), who established a house of reform, and a monastery for poor young men
• Giulio Oradini (1562), who founded a college for clerks
• Napoleone Comitoli (1591), the founder of other charitable institutions
• M. Ant. Ausidei (1726), who embellished the cathedral
• Alessandro M. Odoardi (1776), a zealous prelate, who discovered the body of St. Costanzo
• Camillo Campanelli (1804), who took the oath of allegiance to Napoleon
• Carlo Filesio Cittadini (1818), against the Provisional Government of 1831, who saved the city from pillage at that time
• Gioacchino Pecci (1846), who became Pope Leo XIII, and who made Perugia an archdiocese without suffragans

Ordinaries

Diocese of Perugia

Erected: 2nd century
Latin Name: Dioecesis Perusina

• Agostino da Lanzano (29 Oct 1390 – 27 Feb 1404 Appointed, Bishop of Spoleto)[3]

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• Juan López (cardinal) (29 Dec 1492 – 15 Oct 1498 Appointed, Archbishop of Capua)
• Troilo Baglioni (27 Aug 1501 – 4 Aug 1503 (resigned))
• Francisco de Remolins (4 Aug 1503 – Mar 1506 (resigned))
• Antonio Ferrero (30 Mar 1506 – 23 Jul 1508 (died))
• Matteo Baldeschi (degli Ubaldi) (28 Jul 1508 – Dec 1509 (died))
• Agostino Spínola (19 Dec 1509 – 15 Feb 1529 (resigned))
• Carlo Spinola (15 Feb 1529 – 15 Nov 1535 (died))
• Giacomo Simonetta (20 Dec 1535 – 20 Jul 1538 (resigned))
• Francesco Bernardino Simonetta (29 Jul 1538 – 1550 (died))
• Fulvio Giulio della Corgna, O.S.Io.Hieros. (5 Mar 1550 – 22 Mar 1553 (resigned))
• Ippolito della Corgna (22 Mar 1553 – 1562 (resigned))
• Giulio Oradini (17 Apr 1562 – 10 Sep 1564 (resigned))
• Fulvio Giulio della Corgna, O.S.Io.Hieros. (6 Sep 1564 – 5 May 1574 (resigned))
• Francesco Bossi (5 May 1574 – 21 Oct 1579 Appointed, Bishop of Novara)[4]
• Vincenzo Ercolano, O.P. (27 Nov 1579 – 29 Oct 1586 (died))[5]
• Antonio Maria Gallo (5 Nov 1586 – 19 Jul 1591 Appointed, Bishop of Osimo)
• Napoleone Comitoli (19 Jul 1591 – 30 Aug 1624 (died))[6]
• Cosimo de Torres (16 Sep 1624 – 3 Apr 1634 (appointed Archbishop of Monreale))
• Benedetto Ubaldi (2 Apr 1634 – 14 Dec 1643 (resigned)), Cardinal
• Orazio Monaldi (14 Dec 1643 – Dec 1656 (died))
• Marcantonio Oddi (23 Jun 1659 – 24 Feb 1668 (died))
• Lucalberto Patrizi (3 Jun 1669 – 29 Aug 1701 (died))
• Antonio Felice Marsili (5 Dec 1701 – 5 Jul 1710 (died))
• Vitale Giuseppe de' Buoi (23 Feb 1711 – 23 Nov 1726 (died))
• Marco Antonio Ansidei (16 Dec 1726 – 14 Feb 1730 (died))
• Francesco Riccardo Ferniani (11 Dec 1730 – 25 Aug 1762 (died))
• Filippo Amadei (22 Nov 1762 – 9 Aug 1775 (died))
• Alessandro Maria Odoardi (29 Jan 1776 – 2 Feb 1805 (died))
• Camillo Campanelli (23 Sep 1805 – 30 Jul 1818 (died))
• Carlo Filesio Cittadini (2 Oct 1818 – 16 Apr 1845 (died))
• Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, Archbishop (personal title), Cardinal (in 1853) (19 Jan 1846 – 27 Feb 1880 (resigned after having become Pope Leo XIII in 1878))
• Federico Pietro Foschi (27 Feb 1880 – 12 Nov 1895 (died))

Archdiocese of Perugia

Elevated: 27 March 1882
Latin Name: Archidioecesis Perusina
Immediately Subject to the Holy See

• Dario Mattei-Gentili (29 Nov 1895 – 30 Sep 1910 (resigned))
• Beda Giovanni Cardinale, O.S.B. (8 Nov 1910 – 9 Oct 1922 (appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina)
• Giovanni Battista Rosa (11 Dec 1922 – 29 Oct 1942 (died))
• Mario Vianello (11 Mar 1943 – 13 Aug 1955 (died))
• Pietro Parente (15 Sep 1955 – 23 Oct 1959 (appointed Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Thebaide; future Cardinal)
• Raffaele Baratta (17 Dec 1959 – 15 Oct 1968 (retired))
• Ferdinando Lambruschini (15 Oct 1968 – 25 Jul 1981 (died))
• Cesare Pagani (21 Nov 1981 – 12 Mar 1988 (died))

Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve

United: 30 September 1986 with the Diocese of Città della Pieve
Latin Name: Archidioecesis Perusina-Civitatis Plebis

• Ennio Antonelli (6 Oct 1988 – 26 May 1995 (resigned)); future Cardinal
• Giuseppe Chiaretti (9 Dec 1995 – 16 Jul 2009 (retired))
• Gualtiero Bassetti (16 Jul 2009 – ), Cardinal in 2014[7]

Citations

1. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
2. "Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
3. "Bishop Agostino da Lanzano". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
4. "Bishop Francesco Bossi". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
5. "Archbishop Vincenzo Ercolano (Herculani), O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
6. "Bishop Napoleone Comitoli". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
7. http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-announces-names-of-new-cardinals

General references

• Ughelli, Ferdinando; Coleti, Niccolò (1717). Italia sacra sive De Episcopis Italiae (in Latin) (Second ed.). Venice: apud Sebastianum Coleti. pp. 1153–1174.

External links

• Benigni, Umberto. "Archdiocese of Perugia". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. Retrieved: 2016-10-02.