Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Fermo
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The Archdiocese of Fermo is a Roman Catholic territory in northern Italy, with the episcopal see in the city of Fermo, Marche. It was established as the Diocese of Fermo in the 3rd century and elevated to an archdiocese on 24 May 1589. As of 2004, it included 269,953 baptized inhabitants.
Its includes the following suffragan dioceses:
- Ascoli Piceno
- Camerino-San Severino Marche
- Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia
- San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto
The current titular is Luigi Conti.
History
Boniface IX established a university there.
Local legend attributes the first preaching of the Gospel at Fermo to Saint Apollinarius and Saint Maro.
List of bishops and archbishops
Bishops
- Alexander (3rd century) - His martyrdom, with seventy companions, is placed in the persecution of Decius (250)
- St. Philip (3rd century) - His martyrdom is placed under Aurelian (270-75)
- Alberto (1301 - ?)
- Lorenzo Lenti (1549 - 1571)
- Felice Peretti Montalto (1571 - 24 April 1585, elected pope as Sixtus V
- Domenico Pinelli (1577 - 1584)
- Sigismondo Zanettini (1584 - 1589)
Archbishops
- Sigismondo Zanettini (1589 - 1594)
- Ottavio Bandini (29 June 1595 - 10 April 1606, resigned)
- Alessandro Strozzi (1606 - 1621)
- Pietro Dini (1621 - 1625)
- Giovanni Battista Rinuccini (1625 - 1653)
- Carlo Gualterio (1654 - 1668)
- Giannotto Gualterio (1668 - 1683)
- G. Francesco Ginetti (1684 - 1691)
- Baldassarre Cenci (1697 - 1709)
- Girolamo Mattei (1712 - 1724)
- Alessandro Borgia (1724 - 1764)
- Urbano Paracciani Rutili (9 July 1764 - 2 January 1777, died in office)
- Andrea Antonio Silverio Minucci (20 September 1779 - 1803)
- Cesare Brancadoro (11 July 1803 - 12 September 1837, died in office)
- Gabriele Ferretti (2 October 1837 - 12 January 1842, resigned)
- Filippo de Angelis (27 January 1842 - 8 July 1877, died in office)
- Amilcare Malagola (21 September 1877 - 22 June 1895, died in office)
- Roberto Papiri (1895 - 1906, died in office)
- Carlo Castelli (14 July 1906 - 8 February 1933, died in office)
- Ercole Attuoni (16 March 1933 - 1941, died in office)
- Norberto Perini (22 October 1941 - 1976, retired)
- Cleto Bellucci (21 June 1976 succeduto - 18 June 1997, retired)
- Benito Gennaro Franceschetti (18 June 1997 - 4 February 2005, died in office)
- Luigi Conti (13 April 2006 - present)
References
Categories:
- Dioceses established in the 3rd century
- Roman Catholic dioceses in Italy
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