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Diocese of Città della Pieve
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(CIVITATIS PLEBIS)
A city of obscure origin in the province of Perugia in Umbria, Central Italy. It certainly was an episcopal see in the eleventh century, since in 1099 the bishop was expelled by the Ghibellines. Later Paschal II united it with the Diocese of Chiusi. Clement VIII re-established it as a separate see (1601), the first bishop being Fabrizio Paolucci of the Counts of Cabulo. In 1642, while Giovanni Battista Carcarasio was bishop, the city was sacked by the German soldiers of the Duke of Parma. The diocese is immediately subject to the Holy See. The cathedral, dedicated to Sts. Gervasius and Protasius, is said to have been erected at the exhortation of St. Ambrose. The diocese has a population of 60,000, with 33 parishes, 86 churches and chapels, 65 secular priests, and 4 religious houses of women.
Sources
CAPPELLETTI, Le chiese d’Italia (Venice, 1844); Ann. eccl. (Rome, 1907), 402-3.
Source Record
- Author
- Benigni, Umberto
- Publication
- The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1908.
- Nihil Obstat
- Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.
- Imprimatur
- Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.