Parishes 192 Phone +39 0174 330420 | Area 2,189 km² | |
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Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2004)119,000116,000 (97.5%) Address Via Porta di Vasco, 17, 12084 Piazza CN, Italy Cathedral Mondovì Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Donato) | ||
The Italian Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondovì (Latin: Dioecesis Montis Regalis in Pedemonte o Montis Vici) is a Catholic diocese in the Ecclesiastical Region of Piedmont. Its 192 parishes are divided between the Province of Savona in the (civil) region Liguria and the Province of Cuneo in the (civil) region Piedmont. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Turin.
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History
The town, then called Monsvici or Monteregale, was under the bishop of Asti. until 1198, when it established itself as a commune. The first bishop of Mondovì was Damiano Zavaglia; among his successors were Percivallo di Palma (1429), Amadeo Romagnano (1497), who reconstructed the cathedral (1550); Michele Ghislieri, O.P. (1550), later Pope Pius V; Cardinal Vincenzo Lauro (1566), founder of the seminary, during whose incumbency the cathedral and other churches were torn down to make room for the citadel; Giovanni Battista Isnardi (1697), who restored the episcopal palace and the church of St. Dalmazaio; Carlo Felice Sanmartino (1741), founder of the new seminary, and Giovanni Tommaso Ghilardi, O.P. (1842).
The city, at first part of the Diocese of Asti, became the seat of a bishop, suffragan of the Archbishop of Milan, but, since 1515, the Archdiocese of Turin has been its metropolitan. In 1817, the territory of Cuneo was detached from the See of Mondovì, making the diocese of Cuneo.
Mondovì Cathedral contains paintings by Giulio Romano, Cambiaso, and others. The residence of the bishop is one of the noblest episcopal palaces in Italy. In the church of la Missione there are frescoes by the Jesuit Pozzi. Outside the city is the sanctuary of the Madonna del Pilone, dating from the fourteenth century, but finished later (1730–49). The palace of the counts of San Quintino contained the first printing-office in Piedmont, and was the seat of a university (1560–1719) founded by Duke Emmanuel Philibert, the first institution of its kind in Piedmont.
Parishes
There follows a list of the 192 parishes, ordered by (civil) region, province and commune.