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Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara

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Ecclesiastical province
  
Vercelli

Denomination
  
Catholic Church

Established
  
4th Century

Phone
  
+39 0321 661661

Country
  
Italy

Parishes
  
346

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Area
  
4,283 km²

Province
  
Province of Novara

Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2013)569,800 (est.)534,900 (est.) (93.9%)

Address
  
Via Giacomo Puccini, 11, 28100 Novara NO, Italy

The Diocese of Novara (Latin: Dioecesis Novariensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Vercelli.

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History

In 972, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I granted the dominium of the town of Novara and twenty-four miles surrounding the town to Bishop Aupaldo and his successors, the Bishops of Novara. The bishops therefore enjoyed the title of Count as well as the same rights as a Count of the Empire.

since 1800

  • Cardinal Giuseppe Morozzo Della Rocca (1 Oct 1817 - 22 Mar 1842 Died)
  • Giacomo Filippo Gentile (27 Jan 1843 - 23 Oct 1875 Died)
  • Stanislao Eula (28 Jan 1876 - 10 Apr 1886 Died)
  • Davide Riccardi (7 Jun 1886 - 14 Dec 1891) (Appointed Archbishop of Turin, 1892–1897)
  • Edoardo Pulciano (11 Jul 1892 - 16 Dec 1901 Appointed, Archbishop of Genoa)
  • Mattia Vicario (16 Dec 1901 - 5 Mar 1906 Died)
  • Giuseppe Gamba (13 Aug 1906 - 20 Dec 1923 Appointed, Archbishop of Turin)
  • Giuseppe Castelli (21 Oct 1924 - 12 Sep 1943 Died)
  • Leone Giacomo Ossola, O.F.M. Cap. (9 Sep 1945 - 11 Jun 1951 Resigned)
  • Gilla Vincenzo Gremigni, M.S.C. (29 Jun 1951 - 7 Jan 1963 Died)
  • Placido Maria Cambiaghi, B. (28 Feb 1963 - 30 Oct 1971 Resigned)
  • Aldo Del Monte (15 Jan 1972 - 19 Dec 1990 Retired)
  • Renato Corti (19 Dec 1990 - 24 Nov 2011 Retired)
  • Franco Giulio Brambilla (24 Nov 2011 - )

    • Parishes

    Of the 345 parishes, one is in the Lombard province of Pavia, while rest are divided between the Piedmontese provinces of Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and Vercelli.

    Reference works

  • Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz.  pp. 819–821. (Use with caution; obsolete)
  • Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.  pp. 371–372. (in Latin)
  • Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.  p. 205.
  • Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.  pp. 260–261.
  • Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06.  p. 262.
  • Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.  p. 293.
  • Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.  pp. 314–315.
  • Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1858). Le chiese d'Italia: dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Volume decimoquarto (XIV). Venice: G. Antonelli. pp. 431–529. 
  • Ughelli, Ferdinando; Coleti, Niccolo (1719). Italia sacra sive de Episcopis Italiae (in Latin). Tomus quartus (IV) (secunda ed.). Apud Sebastianum Coleti. pp. 689–744. 

    • Studies

  • Cantino, Gisella Wataghin; Corti Renato, eds. (1999). Il Cristianesimo a Novara E Sul Territorio: Le Origini : Atti Del Convegno, Novara 10 Ottobre 1998 (in Italian). Novara: Interlinea edizioni. ISBN 978-88-8212-223-2. 
  • Deutscher, Thomas Brian (2013). Punishment and Penance: Two Phases in the History of the Bishop's Tribunal of Novara. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-4442-7.  [1563-1799]
  • Fedele, Savio (1898). Gli antichi Vescovi d'Italia: il Piemonte (in Italian). Torino: Bocca. 
  • Malosso, Angela M.; Perotti, Mario; Tuniz, Dorino (1996). La pianura novarese dal romanico al XV secolo: percorsi di arte e architettura religiosa (in Italian). Novara: Interlinea. ISBN 978-88-8212-116-7. 
  • Morbio, Carlo (1841). Storia della città e diocesi di Novara (in Italian). Milan. 
  • Vaccaro, Luciano; Tuniz, Dorino, eds. (2007). Diocesi di Novara (in Italian). Brescia: La Scuola. ISBN 978-88-350-2130-8.  [List of Bishops at pp. 655–657]
  • Weber, Christoph (2010). Episcopus et princeps: italienische Bischöfe als Fürsten, Grafen und Barone vom 17. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German). Peter Lang. pp. 96; 200–204. ISBN 978-3-631-60242-3. 

    • acknowledgment

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

    References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara Wikipedia
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