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 Ludovico 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

1. ^ Catholic Hierarchy page
2. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1444b.htm#Vitelleschi
3. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1478.htm#Dellarovere
4. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1493.htm#Farnese
5. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1534.htm#Sforza
6. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1570.htm#Grassi
7. ^ ^{a b} http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1599.htm#Zacchia
8. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1626.htm#Zacchia
9. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1664.htm#Paluzzi
10. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1686.htm#Barbarigo
11. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1734.htm#Aldrovandi
12. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1775-iii.htm#Banditi
13. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1785.htm#Garampi
14. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1794.htm#Maury
15. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1824.htm#Gazola
16. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1832.htm#Velzi
17. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1838-iii.htm#Ferretti
18. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1838-ii.htm#Angelis
19. ^ http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1844.htm#Clarelli

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.