Roman Catholic Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano

The Diocese of Albano (Lat.: Albanensis) is a suburbicarian see of the Roman Catholic Church in a diocese in Italy, comprising seven towns in the Province of Rome. Albano Laziale is situated some 15 kilometers from Rome, on the Appian Way.

Under current arrangements it has both a titular bishop and a diocesan bishop.

Early history

In the very year of his consulate, Acilius Glabrio was compelled by Domitian to fight, unarmed, in the amphitheatre at Albano, a Numidian bear, according to Juvenal^[1]: an enormous lion, according to Dio Cassius^[2]. This same Acilius Glabrio is later included in a Christian group of the Flavian family as a molitor rerum novarum^[3]. The Liber Pontificalis under the name Silvester ^[4] says:

fecit basilicam Augustus Constantinus in civitate Albanensis, videlicet S. Joannis Baptistae.^[5].

This basilica of the time of Constantine was destroyed by fire toward the end of the 8th century or in the beginning of the ninth^[6] Franconi has established^[7] the identity of this basilica with the present Albano Cathedral, which still contains some remains of the edifice dedicated by Pope Leo III to Saint Pancras. Under the basilica there was a crypt, or confessio, from which bodies were transferred to the cemetery nearby.

The foundation of the episcopal see of Albano is very probably contemporaneous with the erection of the Constantinian basilica. However, the first bishop of the see of whom we have any knowledge is Dionysius (d. 355). It is more than a century later (463) that we meet with another Bishop of Albano, Romanus. To these is to be added Ursinus, whose name is found on an inscription in the Catacomb of Domitilla. The consular date is either 345 or 395. The importance of this early Christian community is apparent from its cemetery, discovered in 1720 by Marangoni. It differs but little from the Christian cemeteries found in Rome. Its plan, clearly mapped out in the Epitome de locis ss. martyrum quae sunt foris civitatis Romae, is considered by Giovanni Battista de Rossi as the synopsis of an ancient description of the cemeteries, written before the end of the 6th century:

per eandem vere viam (Appiam) pervenitur ad Albanam civitatem et per eandem civitatem ad ecclesiam S. Senatoris ubi et Perpetua jacet corpore et innumeri sancti et magna mirabilia ibidem geruntur.

The saints here named are not known. Saint Senator of Albano is inserted without further explanation in the martyrology for 26 September (et in Albano Senatoris). From this he passed to the Roman martyrology, where he is commemorated on the same day. But the first account of the martyrs of Albano is found in the Almanac of Philocalus (4th century) on 8 August:

VI Idus aug. Carpophori, Victorini et Severiani, Albano, et Ostense septimo ballistaria, Cyriaci, Largi, Crescentiani, Memmiae, Julianae, et Smaragdi.

The cemetery has frescoes, painted at various times by unknown artists, which show the progress of Christian art from the fourth to the 9th century.

List of bishops (incomplete)

To 1000

• Eustasio (Eustrasio, Eustazio, Eustachio) (761-769)
• Costante (Costantino) (772- before 826)
• Benedetto (826-before 844)
• Petronacio (853- circa 867)
• Paolo (869- before 898)
• Pietro (898-?)
• Gregorio (964-985)
• Teobaldo (995-996)
• Giovanni (996-1001)

1000-1200

• Pietro Martino Boccapecora, (1004–1009), afterwards Pope Sergius IV (1009–12)
• Teobaldo (1015–1044)^[8]
• Bonifazio (before 1054-1072)^[9]
• Peter Igneus, (1072–1089) of Vallombrosa, associate of Pope Gregory VII in his work of ecclesiastical reform
• Walter of Albano (1091–1100)
• Teodorico (before 1098-1100), later Antipope Theodoric
• Riccardo (1101–1115)^[10]
• Vitale (1116–1126)
• Matthew of Albano (1126–1135)^[11]
• Alberto (1136–1141)
• Hugo d'Homblieres (1143)
• Pietro Papareschi (1143–1145)
• Nicholas Breakspear (1149–1154), afterwards Pope Adrian IV (1154–59)
• Walter II of Albano (1158–1178)
• János Struma (1166–1168), appointed by Antipope Paschal III
• Henri de Marsiac, (1179–1189)
• Albino, canon regular of S. Frediano, (1189–1196)^[12]

1200-1400

• Giovanni da Viterbo (1199-1210/11)
• Gerardo Sessa, O.Cist. (1211)
• Pelagio Galvani (1213–1230)
• Pietro da Collemezzo (1244–1253)
• Rodolphe de Chevriêres (1261–1270)
• Bonaventura, (1273–1274)
• Bentivenga de Bentivengis, OFM (1278–1289)
• Bérard de Got (1294–1297)
• García Gudiel (1298–1299)
• Leonardo Patrasso (1300–1311)
• Arnaud d'Aux (1312–1320)
• Vital du Four, (1321–1327)
• Gauscelin de Jean (1327–1348)
• Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord (1348–1364)
• Pierre Itier (1364–1367)
• Angelique de Grimoard de Grisac (1367–1388)
• Niccolò Brancaccio (1388^[13]-1412)

1400-1600

• Giordano Orsini (1412–1431)
• Pierre de Foix, OFM (1431–1464)
• Ludovico Trevisan (1465)
• Latino Orsini (1465–1468)
• Filippo Calandrini (1468–1471)
• Rodrigo Lanzol-Borja y Borja (1471–1476), later Pope Alexander VI
• Oliviero Carafa (1476–1483)
• Jean la Balu (1483–1491)
• Giovanni Michiel (1491)
• Jorge da Costa (1491–1501)
• Lorenzo Cybo de Mari (1501–1503)
• Raffaele Sansoni Galeotti Riario (1503–1507)
• Bernardino López de Carvajal (1507)
• Guillaume Briçonnet (1507–1508)
• Domenico Grimani (1508–1509)
• Philippe de Luxembourg (1509–1511)
• Jaime Serra y Cau (1511–1516)
• Francesco Soderini (1516–1517)
• Francisco de Remolins (1517–1518)
• Niccolò Fieschi (1518–1521)
• Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte (1521–1523)
• Pietro Accolti (1523–1524)
• Lorenzo Pucci (1524)
• Giovanni Piccolomini (1524–1531)
• Giovanni Domenico de Cupis (1531–1533)
• Andrea della Valle (1533)
• Bonifacio Ferrero (1533–1534)
• Lorenzo Campeggio (1534–1535)
• Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1535–1540)
• Alessandro Cesarini seniore (1540–1541)
• Francesco Cornaro (1541–1542)
• Antonio Pucci (1542–1543)
• Giovanni Salviati (1543–1544)
• Gian Pietro Carafa (1544–1546)
• Ennio Filonardi (1546–1549)
• Jean du Bellay (1550–1553)
• Rodolfo Pio (1553)
• Juan Álvarez de Toledo (1553–1555)
• Francesco Pisani (1555–1557)
• Pedro Pacheco de Villena (1557–1560)
• Giovanni Girolamo Morone (1560–1561)
• Cristoforo Madruzzo (1561–1562)
• Otto von Truchsess von Waldburg (1562–1570)
• Giulio della Rovere (1570)
• Giovanni Ricci (1570–1573)^[14]
• Scipione Rebiba (1573–1574)
• Fulvio Giulio della Corgna, Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme (1574–1580)
• Gianfrancesco Gambara (1580–1583)
• Alfonso Gesualdo (1583–1587)
• Tolomeo Gallio (1587–1589)
• Prospero Santacroce (1589)
• Gabriele Paleotti (1589–1591)
• Michele Bonelli, (1591–1598)
• Girolamo Rusticucci (1598–1600)
• Girolamo Simoncelli (1600)
• Pedro de Deza (1600)
• Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici (1600–1602)

1600-1800

• Simeone Tagliavia d'Aragonia (1602–1603)
• Domenico Pinelli seniore (1603)
• Girolamo Bernerio, Dominican (1603–1607)
• Antonmaria Sauli (1607–1611)
• Paolo Emilio Sfondrati (1611–1618)
• Francesco Sforza di Santa Fiora (1618–1620)
• Alessandro Damasceni Peretti (1620–1623)
• Giovanni Battista Deti (1623–1626)
• Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto (1626–1627)
• Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia (1627–1630)
• Gaspar Borja y Velasco (1630–1645)
• Bernardino Spada (1646–1652)
• Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro (1652–1653)
• Marzio Ginetti (1653–1663)
• Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta (1663–1666)
• Ulderico Carpegna (1666–1671)
• Virginio Orsini (1671–1675)
• Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni (1675–1685)
• Flavio Chigi seniore (1686–1689)
• Emmanuel Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne de Bouillon (1689–1698)
• César d'Estrées (1698–1714)
• Ferdinando d'Adda (1715–1719)
• Fabrizio Paolucci (1719–1724)
• Giacomo Boncompagni (1724–1731)
• Lodovico Pico della Mirandola (1731–1740)
• Pierluigi Carafa (1740–1751)
• Giovanni Battista Spinola (1751–1752)
• Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese (1752–1759)
• Carlo Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini (1759–1763)
• Fabrizio Serbelloni (1763–1774)
• François-Joaquim de Pierre de Bernis (1774–1794)
• Luigi Valenti Gonzaga (1795–1807)

From 1800

• Antonio Dugnani (1807–1816)
• Michele di Pietro (1816–1820)
• Pierfrancesco Galleffi (1820–1830)
• Gianfrancesco Falzacappa (1830–1839)
• Giacomo Giustiniani (1839–1843)
• Pietro Ostini (1843–1849)
• Costantino Patrizi Naro (1849–1860)
• Lodovico Altieri (1860–1867)
• Camillo di Pietro (1867–1877)
• Carlo Luigi Morichini (1877–1879)
• Gustav Adolf von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1879–1884)
• Raffaele Monaco La Valletta (1884–1889)
• Lucido Maria Parocchi (1889–1896)
• Isidoro Verga (1896–1899)
• Antonio Agliardi (1899–1915)
• Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte (1915–1948)
• Giuseppe Pizzardo (1948–1970)

Cardinal-bishops (titular)

• Grégoire-Pierre XV Agagianian (1970–1971)
• Luigi Traglia (1972–1977)
• Francesco Carpino (1978–1993)
• Angelo Sodano (1994-) current titular bishop

References

• Ferdinando Ughelli, Italia sacra (Venice, 1722), I, 247
• Cappelletti, Le chiese d'Italia (Venice, 1866), I,657
• P. B. Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae (Ratisbon, 1873), XXII, 464
• Marucchi, Di alcune inscrizioni recentement trovate e ricomposte nel cimitero di Domitilla, in Nuovo bull. di arch. crist. (1899),24
• Ricci, Memorie storiche dell' antichissima citt di Alba Longa e dell' Albano moderno (Rome, 1787)
• Volpi, Latium Vetus, Profanum et Sacrum (Rome, 1726)
• Gioni, Storia di Albano (Rome, 1842)
• De Rossi, Le catacombe di Albano, in Bull. di arch. Crist. (1869)
• Leclercq, Albano (catacombe d'), in Dict. d'archeol. Chret. et de lit. (Paris, 1904)
• Hans-Walter Klewitz, Reformpapsttum und Kardinalkolleg, Darmstadt 1957
• Rudolf Hüls, Kardinäle, Klerus und Kirchen Roms: 1049–1130, Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom 1977
• Johannes M. Brixius, Die Mitglieder des Kardinalskollegiums von 1130-1181, Berlin 1912
• Barbara Zenker, Die Mitglieder des Kardinalkollegiums von 1130 bis 1159, Würzburg 1964
• Werner Maleczek, Papst und Kardinalskolleg von 1191 bis 1216, Vienna 1984

Notes

1. ^ Sat. IV, 99
2. ^ Hist. Rom., LXVI, iii.
3. ^ Suet. D. 10.
4. ^ ed. Duchesne, Paris, 1886, I, 185.
5. ^ Harnack, "Die Mission", Leipzig, 1902, p. 501.
6. ^ Lib. Pont., Leo III; ed. Duchesne, II, 32.
7. ^ La catacomba e la basilica Constantiniana di Albano Laziale, Rome, 1877.
8. ^ Sources for the period 1015-1130: Klewitz, p. 33, 116 and 120; and Hüls, p. 88-98
9. ^ Some sources mention cardinal Basilius ca.1072/73 but his existence has not been ascertained (cf. Klewitz, p. 116 note 1).
10. ^ Some sources mention cardinal Anastasio ca. 1114 but Klewitz, p. 120 no. 7 has proven that this resulted from a confusion
11. ^ Sources for the period 1130-1189: Brixius, p. 134, and Zenker, p. 32-39
12. ^ Source for the period 1189-1230: Maleczek, p. 63
13. ^ [1]
14. ^ The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of November 20, 1551

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