Roman Catholic Diocese of Mantua

Diocese of Mantua
Dioecesis Mantuana
Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Milan
Statistics
Area 2,080 km2 (800 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2013)
382,128
328,876 (86.1%)
Information
Rite Roman
Established 804 (1214 years ago)
Cathedral Cattedrale di San Pietro Apostolo
Co-cathedral Basilica di Sant'Andrea Apostolo
Secular priests 175 (diocesan)
23 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Gianmarco Busca
Emeritus Bishops Egidio Caporello
Roberto Busti
Map
Website
www.diocesidimantova.it
Basilica di S. Andrea Apostolo (Co-cathedral)

The Diocese of Mantua (Latin: Dioecesis Mantuana) is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy. It was erected in 804, and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan.[1][2] The diocese has produced one Pope and (Latin) Patriarch of Constantinople, and two cardinals.

The diocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its bishop is the Cathedral of S. Pietro Apostolo; Mantua also contains the Basilica of Sant'Andrea. The last Bishop of Mantua iss Gianmarco Busca, appointed by Pope Francis on June 3, 2016. The bishops emeriti are Egidio Caporello and Roberto Busti. In 2013 there is one priest in the diocese for every 1,660 Catholics.

List of bishops of Mantova since 1238

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BishopStart dateEnd date
Giacomo da Castell'Arquato[3]1238AppointedDecember 1251Appointed Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Martin de Puzalerio[4]1252Appointed24 July 1268Died
Antonio Uberti[5]14 November 1390Appointed1417Died
Giovanni degli Uberti16 February 1418Appointed1428Died
Matteo Boniperti, O.P.21 May 1428Appointed24 August 1444Died
Galeazzo Cavriani11 September 1444Appointed16 July 1466Died
Francesco Gonzaga20 August 1466Appointed21 October 1483Died
Sigismondo Gonzaga10 February 1511Appointed10 May 1521Resigned
Ercole Gonzaga10 May 1521Appointed2 March 1563Died
Federico Gonzaga4 June 1563Appointed21 February 1565Died
Francesco Gonzaga15 May 1565Appointed6 January 1566Died
Gregorio Boldrini, O.P.7 February 1567Appointed2 November 1574Died
Marco Fedele Gonzaga28 November 1574Appointed8 September 1583Died
Alessandro Andreasi14 November 1583Appointed23 March 1593Died
Francesco Gonzaga, O.F.M.[6]30 April 1593Appointed2 March 1620Died
Vincenzo Agnello Suardi[7]2 March 1620SucceededSeptember 1644Died
Maffeo Vitale, O.F.M.[8]5 February 1646Appointed23 June 1669Died
Ferdinando Tiberius Gonzaga[9]23 February 1671Appointed1673Died
Joannes Lucidus Cataneo[10]12 March 1674AppointedFebruary 1685Died
Enrico Vialardi, B.[11]3 March 1687Appointed6 December 1711Died
Alessandro Arrigoni (bishop)[12]30 January 1713Appointed13 August 1718Died
Antonio Guidi di Bagno[13] (it)26 April 1719Appointed21 December 1761Died
Juan Portugal de la Puebla[14]29 March 1762Appointed17 January 1770Resigned
Giovanni Battista de Pergen[15]29 January 1770Appointed12 November 1807Died
Giuseppe Maria Bozzi16 May 1823Appointed14 December 1833Died
Giovanni Battista Bellé24 July 1835Confirmed30 June 1844Died
Giovanni Corti12 April 1847Confirmed12 December 1868Died
Pietro Rota27 October 1871Appointed3 May 1879Retired
Giovanni Maria Berengo12 May 1879Appointed10 November 1884Appointed Archbishop of Udine
Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto[16]10 November 1884Appointed15 June 1893Appointed Patriarch of Venezia, later Pope Pius X
Paolo Carlo Francesco Origo18 March 1895Appointed13 November 1928Died
Domenico Menna16 November 1928Appointed8 September 1954Retired
Antonio Poma8 September 1954Appointed16 July 1967Appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Bologna
Carlo Ferrari19 October 1967Appointed28 June 1986Retired
Egidio Caporello28 June 1986Appointed13 July 2007Retired
Roberto Busti13 July 2007Appointed3 June 2016Retired
Gianmarco Busca3 June 2016Appointed

Parishes

There are 168 parishes, all in the Lombardy region; 166 are in the Province of Mantua and 2 in the Province of Cremona.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Diocese of Mantova" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  2. ↑ "Diocese of Mantova" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  3. ↑ Eubel, I, p. 325.
  4. ↑ Martin had been Provost of Parma, and then Auditor General of the Roman Curia. On 4 October 1263 he was appointed to preach the Crusade in Lombardy. Ireneo AFFÒ (1787). Memorie istorico-critiche del beato Martino da Parma, vescovo di Mantova (in Italian). Parma: Carmignani. Eubel, I, p. 325 with note 3.
  5. ↑ Eubel, I, p. 325.
  6. ↑ Gonzaga had been Minister General of his Order. He was nominated Bishop Cefalù in Sicily (1587-1593) by King Philip II of Spain; he was then Bishop of Pavia from January to April, 1593. Eubel, III, p. 163 with note 13. Gauchat, IV, p. 146; p. 230 with note 2; p. 273.
  7. ↑ A native of Mantua, Suardi was a Doctor in utroque iure (Civil and Canon Law), and was appointed a Referendary of the Two Signatures (justice and mercy). Suardi had been Bishop of Alba (1516-1519), and was made Coadjutor of Bishop Gonzaga in his senility on 13 May 1619. Gauchat, IV, p. 75 with note 4; p. 230 with note 3.
  8. ↑ Vitale was born in the diocese of Bergamo. He was consecrated in Rome on 11 February 1646 by Cardinal Giovanni Panciroli. Gauchat, IV, p. 230 with note 4.
  9. ↑ Gonzaga was born in Cremona. He was Doctor in utroque iure from Bologna. He was consecrated in Rome on 1 March 1671 by Cardinal Benedetto Odescalchi. Ritzler, V, p. 254 with note 2.
  10. ↑ Cataneo was a native of Mantua. He was Doctor in utroque iure from Bologna (1673). He was consecrated in Rome on 8 April 1674 by Cardinal Pietro Vidoni. Ritzler, V, p. 254 with note 3.
  11. ↑ A native of Casale, Vialardi was a lecturer in theology in his Order's houses, and then Visitor General of the Order. Ritzler, V, p. 254 with note 4.
  12. ↑ Arrigoni was a native Mantuan. He was Doctor in utroque iure from Parma (1695). He was appointed Governor of Reate, San Severino, Fano and Montalto successively. He was then named a Referendary of the Two Signatures (justice and mercy) on 1 April 1699. He was consecrated in Rome by Cardinal Ferdinando d'Adda on 5 February 1713. Ritzler, V, p. 254 with note 5.
  13. ↑ Ritzler, V, p. 254 with note 6.
  14. ↑ Juan was born in Antiquera in the diocese of Malaga, Spain. He was Doctor in utroque iure (Civil and Canon Law) from Pavia (1724). He was Canon of the Imperial Collegiate Church of Santa Maria de Scala (Milan). He had been titular Archbishop of Perge in Pamphylia (1760-1762). He was consecrated in Rome on 3 August 1760 by Cardinal Antonio Erba-Odescalchi. He was transferred to Mantua on 29 March 1762; he resigned the diocese of Mantua on 17 January 1770, and resumed the Archbishopric of Perge. He was transferred to the titular see of Constantinople on 4 March 1771. Ritzler, VI, p. 274 with note 2; p. 333 with note 3.
  15. ↑ Von Pergen was born in Vienna (Austria). He had been a Canon and Prebendary of the Cathedral of Olmouc. He attended the German College in Rome, and received a doctorate in theology from the University of Rome, La Sapienza (1740). He was appointed an Auditor causarum Apostolic Palatii, and then he became an Auditor of the Rota. He was consecrated in Rome on 4 March 1770 by Cardinal Henry Stuart. Ritzler, VI, p. 275 with note 3.
  16. ↑ Cipolla, Constantino, ed. (2014). Giuseppe Sarto, Vescovo di Mantova. Laboratorio sociologico, 18 papers (in Italian). Milano: FrancoAngeli. ISBN 978-88-917-1886-0.
  17. ↑ Source for parishes: CCI (2008), Parrocchie, Chiesa Cattolica Italiana, archived from the original on 2007-11-21, retrieved 2008-03-14 .

Books

  • 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.
  • Official site
  • Catholic-Hierarchy
  • GCatholic.org
  •  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Mantua". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Coordinates: 45°10′00″N 10°48′00″E / 45.1667°N 10.8000°E / 45.1667; 10.8000

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