Roman Catholic Diocese of Pavia

Diocese of Pavia Dioecesis Papiensis
Pavia Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Milan
Statistics
Area	782 km^2 (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
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

• 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

1. "Diocese of Pavia" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
2. "Diocese of Pavia" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
3. 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.
4. Faustino Gianani (1961). San Teodoro: vescovo di Pavia: il santo, la basilica, i tesori (in Italian) (2nd ed.). Pavia: Fusi.
5. Gerdil, Giacinto-Sigismondo (1828). Vita del B. Alessandro Sauli ... vescovo d' Aleria poi di Pavia (in Italian). Milano: Pogliani. pp. 265–319.
6. 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.