Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro

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Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro Dioecesis Sammarinensis-Feretrana Diocesi di San Marino-Montefeltro
Pennabilli Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy, San Marino
Ecclesiastical province	Ravenna-Cervia
Statistics
Area	800 km2 (310 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 69,000 65,063 (94.3%)
Parishes	81
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	9th century
Cathedral	Cattedrale Collegiata di S. Bartolomeo (Pennabilli)
Co-cathedral	Basilica Concattedrale di S. Marino (San Marino) Concattedrale di S. Leo (San Leo)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Domenico Beneventi
Bishops emeritus	Andrea Turazzi
Website
diocesi-sanmarino-montefeltro.it

Co-cathedral Basilica in San Marino (left) Co-cathedral in San Leo (right)

The Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro (until 1977, the Diocese of Montefeltro) is a

It has its collegiate cathedral episcopal see S. Bartolomeo, dedicated to the Apostle St. Bartholomew, in Pennabilli, Rimini, Emilia Romagna, and two co-cathedrals:

• the church of San Leo, located in the nearby Italian town of that name, once the cathedral of the former see.
• the
  minor basilica and World Heritage Site
  .

History

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The earliest mention of Montefeltro, as Mona Feretri, is in the diplomas by which first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne confirmed the donation of Pepin. In 785 the bishopric was established as Diocese of Montefeltro. The first known bishop of Montefeltro was Agatho (826), whose residence was at San Leo.

Under Bishop

On 22 February 1977, it was renamed as Diocese of San Marino–Montefeltro, having lost territory to the Diocese of Sarsina, and exchanged territory with the Diocese of Rimini.

It enjoyed Papal visits from Pope John Paul II in August 1982 and Pope Benedict XVI in June 2012.

On 18 September 2012,

• Agatho (826), whose residence was at San Leo.
• ...
• Arduino (1015–1044)
• Adolfo (1053–1074)
• Gebizone (1075–1079)
• Pietro Carpegna (?–1125?)
• Arnoldo (1140–1154)
• Gualfredo (?–1172?)
• Valentino (1173), who finished the cathedral
• Alberto (1206–1208)
• Giovanni (1218–1221?)
• ? Benvenuto (1219), deposed as a partisan of Count Ederigo
• Rolando (1222–1229)
• Ugolino (1232–1252)
• Giovanni (1252–1275)
• Roberto da Montefeltro (1282–1284)
• Liberto (1286–1311)
• Benvenuto (1318–1347)
• Claro Peruzzi (1349–1375)
• Pietro (1378–1385?)
• Benedetto di Salnucio (1390–1408), rector of Romagna and Duke of Spoleto
• Giovanni Sedani (1409 – 1444.09.28), who built (c. 1413) the episcopal palace of Calamello
• Francesco da Chiaravalle (1445.01.24 – 1450)
• Napoli (Naples)
  (Italy) (1458.08.03 – 1458.11)
• Andrea (1456.11 – 1458)
• Corrado Marcellino (1458.08.12 – 1458.10.06), later Bishop of Sezze (Italy) (1458.10.06 – 1490)
• Giacomo da Foglia (1458.10.27 – ?)
• Roberto degli Adimari (1459.04.26 – 1484.10.01)
• Celso Mellini (1484.10.01 – death 1498)
• Luca Mellini (1498.11.21 – death 1507)
• Antonio Castriani (21 May 1507 – death 11 August 1510), previously Bishop of Fossombrone (Italy) (1506.01.30 – 1507.05.21)
• Paolo Alessandri degli Strabuzzi (1510.10 – death 1538)
• Albano
  (1546.10.08 – 1549.12.19)
• Ennio Massari Filonardi (1549 – death 1565)
• Ss. Vito e Modesto in Macello Martyrum
  pro hac vice Title (1565.05.15 – 1565.11.12)
• Giovanni Francesco Sormani (or Sarmani; 6 March 1567 – death 1601), founder of the seminary of Pennabilli
  , thenceforth residence of the bishops, the episcopal see having been transferred there.
• Pietro Cartolari (29 November 1601 – death 1607)
• Consalvo Duranti (19 March 1607 – death 10 January 1643)
• Bernardino Scala (28 May 1643 – death 19 January 1667), previously Bishop of Bisceglie (Italy) (1637.01.12 – 1643.05.28)
• Antonio Possenti (3 August 1667 – death 14 December 1671)
• Nepi e Sutri
  (1678.02.25 – death 1679)
• Camerino (Italy) (1702.09.25 – death 1719.02.15)^[5]
• Pietro Valerio Martorelli (5 March 1703 – 18 November 1724)
• Sabina
  (Italy) (1717.04.12 – 1724.11.20)
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Kefalonia–Zakynthos
  (insular Greece; 1718.05.11 – 1729.09.07)
• Sebastiano Bonaiuti (29 May 1747 – death 27 February 1765)
• Bishop of Urbania e Sant'Angelo in Vado
  (Italy) (1777.02.17 – 1779.08)
• Giuseppe Maria Terzi (17 February 1777 – death 27 October 1803)
• Antonio Begni (28 May 1804 – death 11 June 1840)
• S. Martino ai Monti
  (1858.03.18 – death 1879.01.29)
• Salvatore Leziroli (22 July 1842 – 20 January 1845), later Bishop of Rimini (Italy) (1845.01.20 – death 1863)
• Ripatransone
  (Italy) (1842.01.27 – 1845.04.21)
• Crispino Agostinucci (5 November 1849 – death 1856)
• Elia Antonio Alberini (16 June 1856 – 23 March 1860), later Bishop of Ascoli Piceno (Italy) (1860.03.23 – death 1876)
• Luigi Mariotti (23 March 1860 – death 1890)
• Pesaro
  (Italy) (1896.06.22 – death 1904)
• Alfonso Andreoli (6 December 1896 – 20 December 1911), later Bishop of Loreto (Italy) (1911.12.20 – 1923.11.10), Bishop of Recanati(Italy) (1911.12.20 – death 1923.11.10)
• Oxyrynchus
  (1940.06.15 – death 1944.01.28)
• Vittorio De Zanche (9 August 1940 – 25 September 1949), later Bishop of Concordia (Italy) (1949.09.25 – 1971.01.12), restyled Bishop of Concordia–Pordenone (Italy) (1971.01.12 – death 1977.04.14)
• Antonio Bergamaschi (12 December 1949 – death 17 April 1966)
• Apostolic Administrator Emilio Biancheri (1966 – 1977.02.22), while Bishop of Rimini
  (Italy) (1953.09.07 – 1976.12.17) and next on emeritate

• Giovanni Locatelli (22 February 1977 - 12 November 1988), previously Bishop of Rimini (Italy) (1977.02.22 – 1988.11.12); later Bishop of Vigevano (Italy) (1988.11.12 – retired 2000.03.18)
• Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts (1984 – 1989.07.08); later Bishop of Rimini
  (Italy) (1989.07.08 – retired 2007.07.03)
• Paolo Rabitti (25 May 1995 - 2 October 2004), previously Undersecretary of Pontifical Commission for Preserving the Church’s Patrimony of Art and History (1989 – 1993), Secretary of Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church (1993 – 1995.05.25); later Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio (Italy) (2004.10.02 – retired 2012.12.01)
• Luigi Negri (17 March 2005 - 1 December 2012), later Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio (2012.12.01 – ...)
• Andrea Turazzi (30 November 2013 - 3 February 2024)
• Domenico Beneventi (3 February 2024 - )^[6]

See also

• Roman Catholicism in San Marino

Notes

Sources and external links

• GCatholic with incumbent bio links

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

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