Roman Catholic Diocese of Montefiascone

Montefiascone Cathedral

The diocese of Montefiascone was a Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Italy. It was created from the diocese of Bagnorea in 1396, and in 1986 was united into the diocese of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino.^[1][2]

History

Its first bishop was the French Augustinian Pierre d'Anguiscen (1376), a partisan of the antipope Clement VII. In 1435 the see was united with the diocese of Corneto, and so remained until, in 1854, Corneto became a part of the diocese of Civitavecchia.

Among its bishops were:

• Bartolomeo Vitelleschi (1442)^[3]
• Domenico Delle Rovere (1478)^[4]
• Alessandro Farnese (1501), later Pope Paul III;^[5]
• Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora (1528-1548);^[6]
• Carlo Grassi (1555);^[7]
• the two brothers and cardinals Paolo Emilio Zacchia^[8] (1601) and Laudivio Zacchia^[9] (1605), both of whom did much for the building of the cathedral;
• Gasparo Cecchinelli;^[8]
• Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni (1666), founder of the seminary and restorer of the cathedral, which was damaged by a fire in 1670;^[10]
• the scholar Cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo (1687), who came from the diocese of Padua, and who gave great assistance after the earthquake of 1695;and founded the Maestre Pie Filippini^[11]
• Cardinal Pompeo Aldrovandi (1734);^[12]
• Francesco Maria Banditi (1772);^[13]
• the scholar Giuseppe Garampi (1776), who gave its library to the seminary;^[14]
• Cardinal Giovanni Sifredo Maury (1794);^[15]
• Cardinal Bonaventura Gazzola (1820)^[16]
• Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Velzi (1832)^[17]
• Gabriele Ferretti (1837);^[18]
• Filippo de Angelis (1838);^[19]
• Nicola Mattei Baldini
• Niccola Clarelli Parracciani (1844);^[20]
• Conceto Focacetti
• Giovanni Rosi
• Domenico Rinaldini

Ordinaries

Diocese of Montefiascone

Erected: 14th Century
Latin Name: Faliscodunensis o Montis Falisci
Immediately Subject to the Holy See

• Nicola Scarinci (1379 - 1398 Died)

Diocese of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone

Name Changed: 5 December 1435
Latin Name: Cornetanus Tarquiniensis et Montisflasconsis

• Pietro Dell'Orto (12 Dec 1435 - 6 Mar 1439 Appointed, Bishop of Massa Marittima)

...

• Gisberto Tolomei (1467 - 1478 Died)
• Domenico della Rovere (24 Aug 1478 - 22 Apr 1501 Died)
• Alessandro Farnese (1499 - 28 Mar 1509 Appointed, Bishop of Parma)
• Lorenzo Pucci (23 Mar 1519 - 13 Apr 1519 Resigned)
• Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora (12 Nov 1528 - 4 Jun 1548 Resigned)
• Ubaldinus Bandinelli (4 Jun 1548 - Mar 1551 Died)
• Achille Grassi (21 Aug 1551 - 1555 Died)
• Carlo Grassi (20 Dec 1555 - 25 Mar 1571 Died)
• Ferdinando Farnese (27 Aug 1572 - 30 Mar 1573 Appointed, Bishop of Parma)
• Francesco Guinigi (8 Apr 1573 - Jan 1578 Died)
• Vincenzo Fucheri (29 Jan 1578 - 1580 Died)
• Girolamo Bentivoglio (7 Oct 1580 - 12 Apr 1601 Died)^[21]
• Paolo Emilio Zacchia (14 May 1601 - 31 May 1605 Died)
• Laudivio Zacchia (17 Aug 1605 - 13 May 1630 Resigned)
• Gasparo Cecchinelli (13 May 1630 - 1666 Died)
• Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni (29 Mar 1666 - 19 May 1670 Appointed, Archbishop of Ravenna)
• Domenico Massimo (18 Mar 1671 - Sep 1685 Died)^[22]
• Marcantonio Barbarigo (7 Jul 1687 - 26 May 1706 Died)
• Sebastiano Pompilio Bonaventura (15 Nov 1706 - May 1734 Died)
• Pompeio Aldrovandi (9 Jul 1734 - 6 Jan 1752 Died)
• Mario Antonio Maffei (12 Apr 1752 - 1754 Resigned)
• Xaverius Giustiniani (14 Jan 1754 - 13 Jan 1771 Died)
• Francesco Maria Banditi, C.R. (30 Mar 1772 - 26 May 1775 Resigned)
• Giuseppe Garampi (20 May 1776 - 4 May 1792 Died)
• Jean-Siffrein Maury (21 Feb 1794 - 24 Mar 1816 Resigned)
• Bonaventura (Domenico Giuseppe) Gazzola, O.F.M. Ref. (21 Feb 1820 - 29 Jan 1832 Died)
• Giuseppe Maria Velzi, O.P. (2 Jul 1832 - 23 Nov 1836 Died)
• Gabriele Ferretti (19 May 1837 - 2 Oct 1837 Appointed, Archbishop of Fermo)
• Filippo de Angelis (15 Feb 1838 Succeeded - 27 Jan 1842 Appointed, Archbishop of Fermo)
• Nicola Mattei Baldini (27 Jan 1842 - 23 Oct 1843 Died)
• Niccola Clarelli Parracciani (22 Jan 1844 - Jun 1854 Resigned)

Diocese of Montefiascone

14 June 1854: United with the Diocese of Civitavecchia and then split into the Diocese of Montefiascone and the Diocese of Tarquinia e Civitavecchia
Immediately Subject to the Holy See

• Luigi Jona (23 Jun 1854 - 30 Nov 1863 Died)
• Giuseppe Maria Bovieri (22 Feb 1867 - 22 Apr 1873 Died)
• Concetto Focaccetti (25 Jul 1873 - 15 Jul 1878 Appointed, Bishop of Acquapendente)
• Luigi Rotelli (15 Jul 1878 - 22 Dec 1882 Resigned)
• Luciano Gentilucci (15 Mar 1883 - 29 Nov 1895 Appointed, Bishop of Fabriano e Matelica)
• Domenico Rinaldi (29 Nov 1895 - 21 Apr 1907 Died)
• Domenico Mannaioli (16 Aug 1907 - 6 Aug 1910 Resigned)
• Giovanni Rosi (19 Dec 1910 - 5 Apr 1951 Died)
• Luigi Boccadoro (14 Jun 1951 - 27 Mar 1986 Appointed, Bishop of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino)

27 March 1986: United with the Diocese of Acquapendente, the Diocese of Bagnoregio, and the Diocese of Viterbo e Tuscania to form the Diocese of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "^{article name needed}". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.