Roman Catholic Diocese of Pavia
| Diocese of Pavia Dioecesis Papiensis | |
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Pavia Cathedral | |
| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Milan |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 782 km2 (302 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 185,161 173,000 (approx.) (93.4%) |
| Parishes | 100 |
| Information | |
| Rite | Roman |
| Established | 1st Century |
| Cathedral | Cattedrale di Maria Assunta e S. Stefano Protomartire |
| Secular priests |
110 (diocesan) 24 (Religious Orders) |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Corrado Sanguineti |
| Map | |
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| Website | |
| www.diocesi.pavia.it | |
The Diocese of Pavia (Latin: Dioecesis Papiensis) is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan.[1][2] The diocese has produced one Pope and Patriarch of Venice, and three cardinals.
The diocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its bishop is the Cattedrale di Maria Assunta e S. Stefano Protomartire. The current Bishop of Pavia is Corrado Sanguineti, appointed by Pope John Paul II on 1 December 2003.
Bishops of Pavia
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- Saint Syrus[3] (283–339)
- Pompeius of Pavia (339–353)
- Juventius of Pavia (353–392)
- Urciscenus (410–433)
- Crispin of Pavia (433–467)
- Epiphanius of Pavia (467–499)
- Maximus of Pavia (499–514)
- Magnus Felix Ennodius (514–521)
- Anastasius of Pavia (ca. 658 – 680)
- Damian of Pavia (680–710)
- Armentarius of Pavia (710–722)
- Saint Peter (722–736)
- Theodore of Pavia[4] (ca. 740 – 778)
- Jerome of Pavia (778–791)
- Waldo of Reichenau (791–805?, acting, but apparently never consecrated)
- John of Pavia (813–826)
- Pietro Canepanova (971–983), later Pope John XIV
- Fulk of Pavia (1217–1229)
- Giovanni Castiglione (died 14 April 1460); cardinal from December 1456)
- Ascanio Sforza (1479–1505)
- Francesco Alidosius (1505–1511)
- Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte (1511–1516)
- Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte (1521–1530), later Pope Julius III
- Alexander Sauli, B.[5] (1591–1592)
- Carlo Durini (1753–1769)
- Paolo Lamberto D'Allègre (1807–1821)
- Angelo Ramazzotti (1850–1858)
- Pietro Maria Ferrè (1860–1867)
- Lucido Maria Parocchi (1871–1877)
- Agostino Gaetano Riboldi (1877–1901)
- Francesco Ciceri (1901–1924)
- Giuseppe Ballerini (1924–1933)
- Giovanni Battista Girardi (1934–1942)
- Carlo Allorio (1942–1968)
- Antonio Giuseppe Angioni (1968–1986)
- Giovanni Volta (1986–2003)
- Giovanni Giudici (2003–2015)
- Corrado Sanguineti (2015–present)
Parishes
The diocese's 100 parishes are all located in the (civil) region Lombardy: 97 in the Province of Pavia and 2 in the Province of Milan.[6] There is one priest for every 1291 Catholics.
References
- ↑ "Diocese of Pavia" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
- ↑ "Diocese of Pavia" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
- ↑ Chiesa, Innocenzo (1634). Della vita di Santo Siro, primo vescovo di Pavia, libri tre (in Italian). Milan: F. Ghisolfi. Pralini, Cesare; Moiraghi, Pietro (1880–1890). San Siro, Primo Vescovo ... Di Pavia. Studio Storico-critico. Edizione Figurata (in Italian). 2 vols. Pavia: Stabilimento tipografico-librario successori Bizzoni.
- ↑ Faustino Gianani (1961). San Teodoro: vescovo di Pavia: il santo, la basilica, i tesori (in Italian) (2nd ed.). Pavia: Fusi.
- ↑ Gerdil, Giacinto-Sigismondo (1828). Vita del B. Alessandro Sauli ... vescovo d' Aleria poi di Pavia (in Italian). Milano: Pogliani. pp. 265–319.
- ↑ Source for parishes: CCI (2008), Parrocchie, Chiesa Cattolica Italiana, retrieved 2008-03-13.
Books
- Majocchi, Piero; Montanari, Mirella (2002). I vescovi dell'Italia settentrionale nel basso Medioevo: cronotassi per le diocesi di Cremona, Pavia e Tortona nei secoli XIV e XV (in Italian). Pavia: Università di Pavia. ISBN 978-88-7963-140-2.
- Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin)
- Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
- Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
- Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo (in Latin). Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz.
- Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- Ughelli, Ferdinando; Coleti, Niccolo (1717). Italia sacra sive de Episcopis Italiae (in Latin). Tomus primus. Venice: Apud Sebastianum Coleti. pp. 1074–1112.
External links
- Official site
- Catholic-Hierarchy
- GCatholic.org
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Pavia". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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