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Roman Catholic Diocese of Savona Noli

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Parishes
  
71

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Area
  
400 km²

Phone
  
+39 019 83896

Country
  
Italy

Denomination
  
Catholic Church

Established
  
10th Century

Bishop
  
Vittorio Lupi

Province
  
Province of Savona

Roman Catholic Diocese of Savona-Noli

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2014) 155,000 (est.) 152,000 (est.) (98.1%)

Cathedral
  
Cattedrale di Nostra Signora Assunta (Savona)

Address
  
Via A. Manzoni, 9, 17100 Savona SV, Italy

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Genoa

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The Italian Catholic Diocese of Savona-Noli (Latin: Dioecesis Savonensis-Naulensis) in northern Italy, was historically the Diocese of Savona, from the tenth century. In 1820 the Diocese of Noli was united to the Diocese of Savona. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Genoa.

Bishops

  • Bernardus : (992)
  • Joannes : (999)
  • Ardeman : (1014)
  • Antellinus (Ancellinus : (1028)
  • Brixianus : (1046)
  • Amicus: (1049)
  • Giordano of Savona : (1080)
  • Grossolanus : (1098–1109) (promoted to Milan)
  • Guglielmo : (1110)
  • Ottaviano of Pavia: (1119–1128)
  • Guido
  • Ambrosius
  • 1200 to 1400

  • Albertus de Novara : (1221–1230)
  • Henricus : (1230–ca. 1239)
  • Bonifatius
  • Conradus de Ancisa
  • Rufinus Colombo : (died September 1287)
  • Henricus de Ponzono : (1289– ? )
  • Gregorius
  • Gualterius : (1303)
  • Jacobus de Caradengo de Niella : (attested 1305, 1311)
  • Federicus Cibo : (1317–1342)
  • Gerardus de Vasconibus de Pergamo, O.E.S.A. : (1342–1355)
  • Antonius Manfredi de Saluciis : (1355–1376) (promoted to Milan)
  • Dominicus de Lagneto : (1376–1384)
  • Antonius de Viale : (1386–1394) (appointed by Urban VI of the Roman Obedience)
  • Joannes Grimaldi : (1394–1405)
  • 1400 to 1600

  • Philippus Ogerii, O.Carm. : (1405–1411)
  • Petrus Spinola, O.S.B. : (1411–1413)
  • 1600 to 1800

  • Francesco Maria Spinola, O.Theat. : (1624–1664)
  • ...
  • Ottavio Maria de Mari : (15 December 1755 – 27 March 1776)
  • Dominico Gentile : (29 January 1776 – 20 September 1804)
  • since 1800

  • Vincenzo Maria Maggioli : (1804–1820)
  • Giuseppe Vincenzo Airenti, O.S.D. : (1820–5 July 1830) (transferred to Genoa)
  • Agostino Maria Demari : (1833–1840)
  • Alessandro Ottaviano Ricardi di Netro (1842–22 February 1867) (transferred to Turin)
  • Giovanni Battista Cerruti: (22 February 1867–21 Mar 1879)
  • Giuseppe Boraggini: (12 May 1879 – 30 April 1897)
  • Giuseppe Salvatore Scatti : (15 February 1898 – 30 June 1926)
  • Pasquale Righetti : (20 December 1926 – 7 July 1948)
  • Giovanni Battista Parodi : (14 September 1948-15 Jul 1974)
  • Franco Sibilla : (15 July 1974 – 8 September 1980) (transferred to Asti)
  • Giulio Sanguineti : (15 December 1980 – 7 December 1989) (transferred to La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato)
  • Roberto Amadei : (21 April 1990 – 21 November 1991) (transferred to Bergamo)
  • Dante Lafranconi : (7 December 1991 – 8 September 2001) (transferred to Cremona)
  • Domenico Calcagno : (25 January 2002 – 7 July 2007 Resigned)
  • Vittorio Lupi : (30 November 2007- )
  • Parishes

    Of the 71 parishes 68 lie within the Province of Savona, Liguria. The remaining three are in the neighbouring commune of Cogoleto, Province of Genoa, also in Liguria. In 2014 there was one Catholic priest for every 1,600 Catholics.

    Reference works

  • Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz.  p. 821-823. (Use with caution; obsolete)
  • Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.  p. 433-434. (in Latin)
  • Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.  p. 229.
  • Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.  pp. 291–292.
  • Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06.  p. 305.
  • Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.  p. 344.
  • Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.  p. 367.
  • Studies

  • Bima, Palemone Luigi (1842). Serie cronologica dei romani pontefici e degli arcivescovi e vescovi di tutti gli stati di Terraferma & S. S. B. M. e di alcune del regno di Sardegna (in Italian) (seconda ed.). Torino: Favale. pp. 295–301. 
  • Bima, Palemone (1845). Serie cronologica degli arcivescovi e vescovi del regno di Sardegna (in Italian). Asti: Raspi. pp. 106–108. 
  • Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1857). Le chiese d'Italia della loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Volume decimoterzo (13). Venezia: Giuseppe Antonelli. pp. 487–528. 
  • Kehr, Paul Fridolin, Italia Pontificia, Vol. VI: Liguria sive Provincia Mediolanensis (Berlin: Weidemann), pp. 353–357. (in Latin).
  • Ughelli, Ferdinando; Coleti, Niccolò (1719). Italia sacra, sive De episcopis Italiæ, et insularum adjacentium (in Latin). Tomus quartus (4). Venezia: apud Sebastianum Coleti. pp. 730–744. 
  • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Savona-Noli Wikipedia