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Canale Monterano

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Country
  
Italy

Elevation
  
378 m (1,240 ft)

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Local time
  
Wednesday 2:28 AM

Postal code
  
00060

Dialling code
  
06

Province / Metropolitan city
  
Rome (RM)

Demonym(s)
  
Canalesi

Area
  
36.9 km²

Patron saint
  
Bartholomäus

Region
  
Latium

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Frazioni
  
La Piana, Montevirginio

Weather
  
8°C, Wind N at 31 km/h, 51% Humidity

Canale Monterano is a comune (municipality), former bishopric and Latin titular see in the Metropolitan City of Rome, in the central Italian region of Lazio (Ancient Latium).

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Map of 00060 Canale Monterano Rome, Italy

Canale Monterano, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Rome, borders the following municipalities : Blera, Manziana, Oriolo Romano, Tolfa and Vejano.

Main sights

  • Giardini Botanici di Stigliano
  • Ruins of the former village of Monterano (seat of a bishopric, see below) which was set on fire, together with its population, by the French army at the end of the 18th century
  • Remains of Roman aqueduct

    • Ecclesiastical history

    The nearby Diocese of Forum Clodii, established circa 300 in Ancient Forum Clodii, was renamed circa 600 as Diocese of Monterano in Curiate Italian (but still Forum Clodii alongside Middle Latin Manturanum).

    In 900 it was suppressed, its canonical territory being merged into the Diocese of Sutri.

    Residential Episcopal Ordinaries

    (all Roman Rite)

    Bishops of Forum Clodii
  • Saint Bishop Alessandro (200? – ?)
  • Domiziano (313? – ?)
  • Asterio (465? – ?)
  • Gaudenzio (487? – ?)
  • Colonio (599? – ?)
    • Bishops of Monterano
  • Reparato (649? – ?)
  • Esilarato (680? – ?)
  • Opportuno (721? – ?)

    • Titular see

    In 1966 the diocese was nominally restored as Titular bishopric of Monterano (in Italian) or Forum Clodii in Latin.

    It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception :

  • Titular Bishop: Emilio Baroncelli (1968.02.15 – death 1972.12.06) as emeritate, previously Bishop of Veroli (Italy) (1943.01.25 – 1955.08.12), Bishop of Recanati (Italy) (1955.08.12 – 1968.02.15)
  • Titular Archbishop: Giovanni Canestri (1975.02.08 – 1984.03.22) as Vicegerent for the Vicariate of Roma (Rome, Italy) (1975.02.08 – 1984.03.22), Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagliari (insular Italy) (1984.03.22 – 1987.07.06), Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova–Bobbio (Italy) (1987.07.06 – 1989.06.16), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Andrea della Valle (1988.06.28 – 2015.04.29), Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova (Italy) (1989.06.16 – 1995.04.20); previously Titular Bishop of Tenedus (1961.07.08 – 1971.01.07) as Auxiliary Bishop of the above Vicariate of Rome (1961.07.08 – 1971.01.07), Bishop of Tortona (Italy) (1971.01.07 – 1975.02.08)
  • Titular Bishop: Angelo Gelmi Bertocchi (1985.04.04 – death 2016.06.17), as Auxiliary Bishop of Cochabamba (Bolivia) (1985.04.04 – 2013.05.31) and on emeritate
  • Titular Bishop: Javier Salinas Viñals (2016.09.08 – ...), as Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia (southern Spain); previously Bishop of Ibiza (Balearic Spain) (1992.05.26 – 1997.09.05), Bishop of Tortosa (Spain) (1997.09.05 – 2012.11.16) and Apostolic Administrator of Lleida (Spain) (2007.03.08 – 2008.07.16), Bishop of Mallorca (Balearic Spain) (2012.11.16 – 2016.09.08)

    • References

    Canale Monterano Wikipedia
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