Established 23 December 1748 Province Province of Turin | Parishes 62 Area 1,440 km² Phone +39 0121 373311 | |
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Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2013)101,400 (est.)81,200 (est.) (80.1%) Similar Parrocchia S Maurizio, Parrocchia S Leonardo, Parrocchia di San Verano Profiles | ||
The Diocese of Pinerolo (Latin: Dioecesis Pineroliensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the province of Turin of Piedmont, Northern Italy. It is a suffragan of the archbishopric of Turin.
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Ecclesiastical history
Pinerolo’s episcopal see was originally an abbey nullius. It was founded in 1064 by Adelaide, Princess of Susa, in Abbadia Alpina. In the tenth century it belonged to the Marca di Torino (March of Turin) and was governed by the abbots of Pinerolo, even after the city had established itself as a commune (1200). From 1235, however, Amadeus IV of Savoy exercised over the town a kind of protectorate which, in 1243, became absolute, and was exercised thereafter either by the house of Savoy.
Pinerolo was made a diocese in 1748, at the request of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, its first prelate being G. B. d'Orlié.
In 1805, conformably with the wish of Napoleon I Bonaparte, the diocese was united with the bishopric of Saluzzo, but in 1817 it was re-established as an independent episcopal see.
Those of its churches deserving mention are the cathedral (which dates from the ninth century, and has an architecturally significant campanile) and San Maurizio, a Gothic church, from the belfry of which there is a superb view of the Alps and of the sub-Alpine plain.
Parishes
The 62 parishes are all within the Piedmontese province of Turin