Roman Catholic Diocese of Parma

Diocese of Parma
Dioecesis Parmensis
Parma Cathedral
Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Modena-Nonantola
Statistics
Area 2,100 km2 (810 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2004)
320,662
308,247 (96.1%)
Parishes 309
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 4th Century (417 years ago)
Cathedral Basilica Cattedrale della Assunzione di Maria Virgine
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Enrico Solmi
Website
www.diocesi.parma.it

The Italian Catholic Diocese of Parma (Latin: Dioecesis Parmensis) has properly been called Diocese of Parma-Fontevivo since 1892.[1][2] The bishop's seat is in Parma Cathedral. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola.

Bishops

The first known Bishop of Parma is Urbanus, a partisan of the antipope Ursicinus, and deposed by Pope Damasus in 378.[3]

Other bishops included:

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  • Gratiosus (680);
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  • Lantpertus (827);
  • Wihbodus (857–895), who bore important charges from Emperor Louis II and his successors
  • Aicardus, who in 920 restored the cathedral, which had been destroyed by fire
  • Sigefredus, a former chancellor of King Hugo, who accompanied in 937 Hugo's daughter Berta, the promised bride of Constantine Porphyrogenitus;
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  • Cadalus (1046-1071) obtained his see through simony, and became the antipope Honorius II, while remaining Bishop of Parma;
  • his successor, Everardo (1073), was a partisan of the antipope Clement III, in whose interest Everardo even resorted to arms, but was defeated by the Countess Matilda, near Sorbara (1084);
  • another schismatic, Wido (1085); in whose place was put (1091)
  • St. Bernardo degli Uberti, Abbot of Vallombrosa and a cardinal, in 1104, in dragged violently from the altar, and driven from his see, to which he was not able to return peacefully until 1106; he resigned the temporal power held by the bishops of this diocese and, having opposed the coronation of Conrad (1127) was again obliged to flee from Parma, and died in 1133;
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  • Obizzo Fieschi, an uncle of Pope Innocent IV;
  • Gratian (1224), professor of law at Bologna University;
  • Alberto Sanvitale (1243)
  • His brother Obizzo Sanvitale (1259) (both brothers nephews of Innocent IV) exerted himself greatly for the reform of morals, favoured the "Milizia di Gesù Cristo", and exposed the sect of the Apostolic Brethren, founded by the Parmesan Gherardo Segarelli;
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  • Ugolino de' Rossi (1322) was obliged to flee from Parma, with his father Guglielmo de' Rossi, on account of the latter's political reverses (1334);
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  • Giuseppe Olgiati (1694-1711)
  • Camillo Marazzani (1711-1760), who governed the diocese during forty-eight years;
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  • Adeodato Turchi (1788), a Capuchin who wrote pastorals and homilies;
  • Cardinal Francesco Caselli (1804), a former superior of the Servites and a companion of Consalvi during the negotiation of the Concordat with Napoleon; at the national council of Paris in 1811, he defended the rights of the Holy See.
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See also

References

  1. ↑ "Diocese of Parma (-Fontevivo)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  2. ↑ "Diocese of Parma" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 | At this time the diocese absorbed the spiritualities of Fontevivo Abbey, a former territorial abbey. The Bishop of Parma has since also had the title of Abbot of Fontevivo
  3. ↑ Benigni, Umberto. "Diocese of Parma." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. Retrieved: 2016-10-02.

Books

  • Allodi, Giorgio M. (1856). Serie cronologica dei vescovi di Parma con alcuni cenni sui principali avvenimenti civili (in Italian). 2 vols. Parma: P. Fiaccadori.
  • Manfredi, Angelo (1999). Vescovi, clero e cura pastorale: studi sulla diocesi di Parma alla fine dell'Ottocento (in Italian). Roma: Editrice pontificia Universita Gregoriana. ISBN 978-88-7652-835-4.
  • Barbieri, L., ed. (1866). Ordinarium ecclesiae Parmensis e vestustioribus excerptum reformatum a. MCCCCXVII (in Latin). Parma: Fiaccadori.

Acknowledgment

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Parma". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.

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