Roman Catholic Diocese of Acquapendente

Acquapendente Cathedral

The Italian Roman Catholic diocese of Acquapendente was an ecclesiastical territory in Lazio, seated at Acquapendente Cathedral. It existed from 1649, when it was created in the place of the suppressed diocese of Castro, to 1986, when with other dioceses it was merged into the diocese of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino.^[1]

History

In 1649, in consequence of a conspiracy, Cristoforo Girarda, a Barnabite of Novara and Bishop of Castro, was assassinated in the Second War of Castro. In punishment of this crime, Pope Innocent X ordered Castro to be destroyed, and raised Acquapendente to the dignity of an episcopal city (Bull, 13 September 1649), directly under the Holy See. Its bishops, however, retained the appellation "post Castrenses." The first incumbent of the new See was the Hieronymite Pompeo Mignucci of Offida, who had been Archbishop of Ragusa. He took possession on 10 January 1650.

Ordinaries

Diocese of Acquapendente

Erected: 13 September 1649
Latin Name: Aquipendiensis
Immediately Subject to the Holy See

• Pompeo Mignucci, O.S.H. (10 Jan 1650 - Oct 1654 Died)
• Nicolò Leti (14 Jun 1655 - 30 Sep 1674 Resigned)
• Lodovico Magni, O.F.M. Conv. (1 Oct 1674 - 1680 Died)
• Gian Lorenzo Castiglioni (9 Dec 1680 - 5 Aug 1682 Died)
• Giambattista Febei (12 Jul 1683 - 14 Apr 1688 Died)
• Alessandro Fedele (17 Apr 1690 - 20 Feb 1696 Appointed, Bishop of Jesi)
• Nicolò Nardini (21 May 1696 - Jul 1697 Died)
• Ambrosio Angelini (20 Nov 1697 - 9 Dec 1710 Resigned)
• Bernardino Egidio Recchi (26 Jan 1711 - Feb 1728 Died)
• Ferdinando Agostino Bernabei, O.P. (12 Apr 1728 - 23 Dec 1729 Appointed, Bishop of Osimo e Cingoli)
• Simone Gritti (23 Dec 1729 - 25 Nov 1743 Resigned)
• Bernardo Bernardi, O.F.M. Conv. (28 Nov 1746 - 31 Oct 1758 Died)
• Giovanni Domenico Santucci (22 Nov 1758 - 4 Jun 1763 Died)
• Clemente Maria (Vincent) Bardini, O.S.B. (18 Jul 1763 - 4 Jul 1790 Died)
• Paolo Bartoli (21 Feb 1794 - 23 Dec 1801 Appointed, Bishop of Città di Castello)
• Florido Pierleoni, C.O. (20 Sep 1802 - 29 Dec 1829 Died)
• Niccola Belletti (15 Mar 1830 - 19 Jun 1843 Appointed, Bishop of Foligno)
• Felicissimo Salvini (19 Jun 1843 - 12 Apr 1847 Appointed, Archbishop of Camerino)
• Giovanni Battista Pellei (14 Jun 1847 - 22 Nov 1877 Died)
• Concetto Focaccetti (15 Jul 1878 - 14 May 1887 Resigned)
• Gisleno Veneri (23 May 1887 - 15 Dec 1919 Retired)
• Tranquillo Guarneri (8 Mar 1920 - 21 Jul 1937 Died)
• Giuseppe Pronti (17 Mar 1938 - 1 Jan 1951 Appointed, Bishop of Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino)
• Luigi Boccadoro (14 Jun 1951 - 27 Mar 1986 Appointed, Bishop of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino)

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Attribution

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