The Italian Catholic diocese of Sarsina was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, seated in Sarsina, in the province of Forlì, which existed until 1986. In that year it was united into the diocese of Cesena.
In the tenth century the bishops obtained the temporal sovereignty of the city of Sarsina and the surrounding district. From 1327 till 1400 it was disputed by the Ordelaffi of Forlì, the popes, and the bishops.
The patron of the city is Saint Vicinius, believed to have been bishop about the year 300.
Other bishops were:
Saint Rufinus (fifth century);
Benno (770), who erected the cathedral;
Saint Apollinaris (1158), monk;
Guido (1255), who defended the rights of his church and was killed for so doing;
Francesco Calboli (1327), who had to defend the city by force of arms against Francesco Ordelaffi;
Benedetto Mateucci Accorselli (1385), the last prince bishop;
Gianfilippo Negusanti (1398);
Raffaele degli Alessi (1524), a reformer;
Nicolo Branzi (1602), who was imprisoned in the Castle of Sant'Angelo but was liberated later.
In 1807 Napoleon suppressed the see, which, having been re-established in 1817, was in 1824 united to the diocese of Bertinoro; but in 1853 it was again re-established. The diocese was suffragan of the archdiocese of Ravenna.
Fortunato Pellicani (1451–1474 Died)
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Angelo Peruzzi (bishop) (1581–1600 Died)
Nicolas Braverio (1602–1632 Died)
Amico Panici (1632–1634 Appointed, Bishop of Recanati e Loreto)
Carlo Bovi (1635–1646 Died)
Caesar Reghini (1646–1658 Died)
Francesco Caetani (1658–1659 Died)
Federico Martinotti (Martinozzi) (1661–1677 Died)
Francesco Crisolini (1678–1682 Died)
Bernardin Marchese (1683–1699 Died)
Giovanni Battista Braschi (1699–1718 Resigned)
Giovanni Bernardino Vendemini (1733–1749 Died)
Giovanni Paolo Calbetti (1749–1760 Died)
Giovanni Battista Mami (1760–1787 Died)
Nicola Casali (1787–1814 Died)
Carlo Monti (1817–1818 Appointed, Bishop of Cagli)
Pietro Balducci, C.M. (1818–1822 Appointed, Bishop of Fabriano e Matelica)
Federico Bencivenni, O.F.M. Cap. (1824–1829 Died)
Tobia Masacci (1872–1880 Died)
Dario Mattei-Gentili (1880–1891 Appointed, Bishop of Città di Castello)
Henricus Gratiani (1892–1897 Died)
Domenico Riccardi (1898–1910 Died)
Luigi Ermini (1910– Did Not Take Effect)
Eugenio Giambro (1911–1916 Appointed, Bishop of Nicastro)
Ambrogio Riccardi (1916–1922 Died)
Antonio Scarante (1922–1930 Appointed, Bishop of Faenza)
Teodoro Pallaroni (1931–1944 Died)
Carlo Stoppa (1945–1948 Appointed, Bishop of Alba)
Emilio Biancheri (1949–1953 Appointed, Bishop of Rimini)
Carlo Bandini (1953–1976 Retired)
Augusto Gianfranceschi (1976–1977 Retired)
Luigi Amaducci (1977–1986 Appointed, Bishop of Cesena-Sarsina)
