Roman Catholic Diocese of Gubbio

Diocese of Gubbio
Dioecesis Eugubina
Gubbio Cathedral
Location
Country  Italy
Ecclesiastical province Perugia-Città della Pieve
Statistics
Area 900 km2 (350 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2013)
55,754
52,181 (93.6%)
Parishes 39
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 5th century
Cathedral Cattedrale di Ss. Mariano e Giacomo Martiri
Secular priests 35 (diocesan)
18 (religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Mario Ceccobelli
Emeritus Bishops Pietro Bottaccioli
Website
www.webdiocesi.chiesacattolica.it

The Italian Catholic Diocese of Gubbio (Latin: Dioecesis Eugubina) is in the province of Perugia, in Umbria, central Italy.[1][2]

History

In the eighth century Gubbio became part of the Patrimony of St. Peter, together with the duchy of Spoleto. It was often at war with Perugia, and its victory in 1151 over Perugia and ten other towns is famous. St. Ubald, bishop of the city, directed the campaign. Gubbio favoured the Ghibelline party; however, in 1260 the Guelphs surprised the town, and drove out the Ghibellines; who returned again in 1300 under the leadership of Uguccione della Faggiola, and Federico I da Montefeltro, whereupon Pope Boniface VIII sent his nephew Napoleone Orsini who drove them out once more.

Giovanni Gabrielli, lord of Gubbio, was expelled by Cardinal Albornoz (1354) and the town handed over to a pontifical vicar. In 1381, however, the bishop, Gabriele Gabrielli, succeeded in being appointed pontifical vicar and again, lord of Gubbio.

The earliest known Bishop of Gubbio is Decentius, to whom Innocent I addressed (416) a letter concerning liturgy and church discipline.[3] Gregory the Great (590–604) entrusted to Bishop Gaudiosus of Gubbio the spiritual care of Tadinum, about a mile from the modern Gualdo, which had been long without a bishop of its own.

Arsenius of Gubbio (855) together with Nicholas of Anagni, opposed the election of Pope Benedict III. Other bishops of Gubbio were

Cardinal Bembo and Marcello Cervino, afterwards Pope Marcellus II, were also bishops of Gubbio, likewise Alessandro Sperelli (1644), author of many learned works, who restored the cathedral. Gubbio was originally directly subject to the Holy See, but in 1563 became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Urbino; as a result of the resistance begun by Bishop Mariano Savelli it was not until the eighteenth century that Urbino could exercise metropolitan jurisdiction.

Ordinaries

  • St. Pietro Damiano, O.S.B. (1060–1066 Resigned)
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  • Gabriel Neccioli Gabriel (1377–1384 Died)
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References

  1. ↑ "Diocese of Gubbio" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  2. ↑ "Diocese of Gubbio" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  3. ↑ Jasper, Detlev (2001). Papal Letters in the Early Middle Ages. CUA Press. p. 227. ISBN 0813209196.
  4. ↑ Eubel, Konrad. HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol II. p. 193.
  5. ↑ "Bishop Antonio Severini" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 7, 2016
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. pp. 183–184.
  7. ↑ "Bishop Pietro Carpegna" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved December 13, 2016

Sources

  • Cappelletti, Le chiese d'Italia (1846), V, 355-458;
  • Sarti, De Episcopis Eugubinis (Pesaro, 1755);
  • Lucarelli, Memorie e guida storica di Gubbio (Citta di Castello, 1886);
  • Colasanti I, Gubbio in Italia Artistica (Bergamo, 1906), XIII.

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

Coordinates: 43°21′00″N 12°34′00″E / 43.3500°N 12.5667°E / 43.3500; 12.5667

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