The Diocese of Albenga-Imperia (Latin: Dioecesis Albinganensis-Imperiae) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Liguria, northern Italy; the historical Diocese of Albenga had its name changed in 1973. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Genoa.
Legend makes Albenga between the years 121 and 125 the scene of the martyrdom of Calocerus of Brescia (Calogero), an officer of the court of Hadrian. But the Acts of his martyrdom, together with those of Faustinus and Jovita with which they are incorporated, are not historically verified.
The first bishop of whom we know anything is Quintius, who in the year 451 signed the Synodal Letter of Eusebius, Bishop of Milan, to Pope Leo I, in which the condemnation of Nestorius and Eutyches was sanctioned.
Erected: 5th Century
Latin Name: Albinganensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Genoa
Sinibaldo Fieschi (1225–1226 Resigned)
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Giorgio Fieschi (Flisco) (1448–1459 Resigned)
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Girolamo Basso Della Rovere (1472–1476 Appointed, Bishop of Macerata)
Leonardo Marchesi (1476–1513 Died)
Bandinello Sauli (1513–1517 Resigned)
Giulio de' Medici (1517–1518 Resigned)
Giangiacomo di Gambarana (1518–1538 Died)
Girolamo Grimaldi (1538–1543 Died)
Giovanni Battista Cicala (Cicada) (1543–1554 Appointed, Administrator of Mariana)
Carlo Cicala (Cicada) (1554–1572 Resigned)
Carlo Grimaldi (1572–1581 Died)
Orazio Malaspina (1582–1582 Died)
Luca Fieschi (1582–1610 Died)
Domenico de' Marini (patriarch) (1611–1616 Appointed, Archbishop of Genoa)
Vincenzo Landinelli (1616–1624 Resigned)
Pietro Francesco Costa (1624–1655 Died)
Francesco de' Marini (1655–1666 Appointed, Bishop of Molfetta)
Giovanni Tommaso Pinelli, C.R. (1666–1688 Died)
Alberto Sebastiano Botti (Blotto), O. Carm. (1689–1690 Died)
Giorgio Spínola (1691–1714 Died)
Carlo Maria Giuseppe Fornari (1715–1730 Resigned)
Agostino Rivarola (1730–1745 Died)
Costantino Serra, C.R.S. (1746–1763 Died)
Giuseppe Francesco Maria della Torre (1764–1779 Died)
Stefano Giustiniani (1779–29 Mar 1791 Died)
Paolo Maggiolo (1791–7 Aug 1802 Died)
Angelo Vincenzo Andrea Maria Dania, O.P. (1802–1818 Died)
Carmelo Cordiviola (1820–1827 Died)
Vincenzo-Tommaso Pirattoni, O.P. (1832–1839 Died)
Raffaele Biale (1840–1870 Died)
Pietro Anacleto Siboni (1871–1877 Died)
Gaetano Alimonda (1877–1879 Resigned)
Filippo Allegro (1879–1910 Died)
Giosuè Cattarossi (1911–1913 Appointed, Bishop of Belluno e Feltre)
Pacifico Celso Carletti, O.F.M. Cap. (1914–1914 Died)
Angelo Cambiaso (1915–1946 Died)
Raffaele De Giuli (1946–1963 Died)
Gilberto Baroni (1963–1965 Appointed, Bishop of Reggio Emilia)
Alessandro Piazza (1965–1990 Retired)
Name Changed: 1 December 1973
Latin Name: Albinganensis-Imperiae
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Genoa
Mario Oliveri (1990–2016 Resigned)
Guglielmo Borghetti (2016– )
The diocese’s 163 parishes are divided between the provinces of Imperia and Savona, both in Liguria
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