Diocese of Brugnato
The Diocese of Brugnato (Latin: Dioecesis Brugnatensis) was a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Brugnato in the Province of La Spezia in Italy. The city of c. 1200 persons, is located on the Vara River, about 70 kilometres southeast of Genoa and about 15 km northwest of La Spezia.
On 25 November 1820, it was united with the Diocese of Luni e Sarzana, aeque personaliter (one bishop holds two or three distinc dioceses), to form the Diocese of Luni, Sarzana e Brugnato.[1][2]
History
On 27 May 1133, Innocent II issued the bull "Quemadmodum Sedes," establishing the former monastery of SS. Peter, Lawrence and Columbanus in Brugnato as a diocese. Its territory was to consist of all the properties which had belonged to the monastery, nearly all of which were (or rather had been) in the diocese of Luni, which was directly subject to the pope. Two days earlier, he had removed the diocese of Genoa from the ecclesiastical province of Milan, and created a new province, with Syrus of Genoa as the new metropolitan archbishop. Brugnato was assigned as one of his suffragan bishops.[3]
The cathedral originally had a Chapter, composed of six canons, headed by the Archpriest, each with a prebend. By 1512, at the beginning of the administration of Bishop Filippo Sauli (1512–1528), there were only three, and Pope Leo X ordered the bishop to raise the number to the original six.[4] The bishop and canons had evidently entered into a number of agreements (conventiones) with the commune of Genoa, probably from 1133; they were required to take oaths to observe the agreements every four years. The earliest recorded example dates from 1241.[5]
Bishop Francesco Durazzo (1640–1652) held a diocesan synod for Brugnato at Sestri Orientale on 21 April 1643, and published the constitutions.[6] Bishop Giambattista de Dece (1663–1696) held a diocesan synod on 23 May 1675, and Bishop Domenico Tatis another in 1762.[7]
- 1797 July 4: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Pontremoli
On 25 November 1820, the diocese of Brugnato was united aeque personaliter with the Diocese of Luni e Sarzana to form the Diocese of Luni, Sarzana e Brugnato.[8]
- 1854: Lost territory to the Diocese of Massa Carrara
- 1855: Lost territory to the Diocese of Pontremoli
- 1929 January 12: Lost territory to establish the Diocese of La Spezia
- 1959 July 26: Gained territory from Diocese of Apuania and exchanged territory with Diocese of Chiavari[2]
- 1986 September 30: Suppressed, territory and name transferred to the Diocese of La Spezia–Sarzana–Brugnato)[9]
Bishops of Brugnato
Erected: 1133
Latin Name: Brugnatensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Genoa
From 1133 to 1500
- Ildeprandus (1133– )[10]
- Hieronymus Laumellinus (c. 1147–1172)[11]
- Lanfranc ((c. 1178)[12]
- Albertus ((c. 1178)[13]
- Guillelmus Spinola[14]
- Sinibaldus Fieschi (1200–1230)[15]
- Guillelmus Contardi (1230–after 1250)[16]
- Balduin Fieschi (c. 1252)[17]
- Philippus Pallavicini (c. 1262–1264)[18]
- Sorleone, O.P. (1265–1280)[19]
- Philippus Passano (1281– )
- Harduinus de Franchi
- Jacobus de Pontremoli (1300–1320?)[20]
- Gerardus, O.Min. (1321–1339)[21]
- Lambertus (1340–1344)
- Tropetus da Cancellis (1344–1362)
- Ludovicus Gandolfi, O.F.M. (1363–1390)
- Lando Plancio (1390–1400) Roman Obedience
- Simon de Fanascheriis (1418)[22]
- Thomas de Henriginis (1418–1438)[23]
- Antonio Vergafalce (1438–1467)[24]
- Barthelemy Uggeri (1467–1479)
- Antonio Da Valditaro (1478–1491)
- Simone Chiavari, O.S.B. (1492–1502 Resigned)
From 1500 to 1820
- Lorenzo Fieschi (1502–1510 Appointed, Bishop of Ascoli Piceno)
- Melchiorre Grimaldi (1510–1512 Died)[25]
- Filippo Sauli (1512–1528 Died)[25]
- Girolamo Grimaldi (1528–1535 Resigned)[25]
- Agostino Trivulzio (1539–1548 Resigned)[25]
- Antonio Cogorno, O.P. (1548–1565 Resigned)[25]
- Giulio Sauli (bishop) (1565–1570 Died)[25]
- Antonio Paliettino (de Monelia), O.F.M. Conv. (1571–1578 Died)[25]
- Nicolò Mascardi (1579–1584 Appointed, Bishop of Accia and Mariana)[25]
- Camillo Daddeo (Doddeo) (1584–1592 Appointed, Bishop of Fossano)[25]
- Stefano Bagliani (Baliano) (1592–1609)[25][26]
- Francesco Mottini (1609–1623)[26]
- Vincenzo Giovanni Spínola, O.S.A. (1623–1639 Died)[26]
- Francesco Durazzi (1640–1652)
- Giantommaso Gastaldi, O.P. (1652–1655)
- Giovanni Battista Paggi, B. (1655–1663)[27]
- Giambattista Dadece (de Dece), C.R. (1663–1696)[26]
- Francesco Maria Sacco, C.R. (1697–1721)[28]
- Nicolò Leopoldo Lomellini (1722–1754 Died)[28]
- Domenico Tatis, O.S.B. (1754–1765 Died)
- Francesco Maria Gentile (1767–1791 Appointed, Bishop of Luni e Sarzana)
- Giovanni Luca Solari (1792–1810)
- Sede vacante (1810-1820)
- Cardinal Giuseppe Spina, Archbishop of Genoa (1814–1820) Apostolic Administrator[29]
- 25 November 1820: The diocese was suppressed, and its territory united with the Diocese of Luni e Sarzana to form the Diocese of Luni, Sarzana e Brugnato
See also
References
- ↑ Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Brugnato". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]
- 1 2 Chow, Gabriel. "Diocese of Brugnato (Italy)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]
- ↑ The text of the bull is given by Cappelletti, pp. 465-466. Philippus Jaffé & S. Loewenfeld, Regesta pontificum Romanorum, (in Latin), second edition (Leipzig: Veit 1885), p.860, nos. 7620 and 7621.
- ↑ Zolesi, pp. 348-349.
- ↑ Zolesi, pp. 350-351.
- ↑ Constitutioni e decreti fatti e pubblicati nella Sinodo diocesana Brugnatense, celebrati dall'ill. e rev. signore, signor Francesco Durazzo, vescovo di Brugnato, nel luogo di Sestri Orientale l'anno 1643 alli 21 aprile. (in Latin). Roma: nella stamperia Apostolica, 1644.
- ↑ Synodi diecesane ab illustriss. et reverendiss. Joanne Baptista De-Dece habitæ anno MDLXXV. Confirmatio celebrata ab illustriss. et reverendiss. D. D. Dominico Tatis abbate Congregationis Benedictino-Olivetanæ, episcopo Brugnatensi, et comite, &c. Anno MDCCLXII. (in Latin), (Genuæ: typographia Gessiniana 1762).
- ↑ Pope Pius VII on 25 November 1820 in the Bull Sollicita. Andrea Barberi; Rainaldus Secreti, eds. (1835). Bullarii Romani continuatio (in Latin). Vol. 15 (Tomus decimus quintus). Rome: ex typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae. pp. 349–351. The editors mistakenly date the bull to 8 December 1820, reading Idus where the bull actually says Kalendas.
- ↑ Acta Apostolicae Sedis vol. 79 (1987), pp. 789-791.
- ↑ Kehr VI, p. 369, no. 4.
- ↑ Gams, p. 818, col. 1.
- ↑ Cappelletti XIII, p. 467.
- ↑ Albertus: Ughelli IV, p. 986. Cappelletti XIII, p. 467.
- ↑ Ughelli IV, p. 985. Cappelletti XIII, p. 467.
- ↑ Sinibaldo was the uncle of Pope Innocent IV. He died on 26 November 1230. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 148.
- ↑ Guillelmus was still bishop-elect in 1234. Zolesi, p. 350, note 1. Ughelli IV, p. 986. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 148.
- ↑ Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 148.
- ↑ Eubel I, p. 148.
- ↑ Serlus: Ughelli IV, p. 986. Eubel I, p. 148.
- ↑ Eubel I, p. 148.
- ↑ Gerardus: Cappelletti XIII, p. 469. Eubel I, p. 148.
- ↑ Simon was elected, and approved by Pope Martin V on 9 March 1418. He died later in the same year. Eubel I, p. 149.
- ↑ Thomas: Eubel I, p. 149; II, p. 111.
- ↑ Eubel II, p. 111.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 141. (in Latin)
- 1 2 3 4 Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 122. (in Latin)
- ↑ Paggi: Luigi M. Levati, Vescovi Barnabiti che in Liguria ebbero i natali o la sede, studio storico, (in Italian) (Genoa: Tipografia della Gioventu 1909), pp. 53-98. Gauchat, p. 122.
- 1 2 Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. V. Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. p. 128. (in Latin)
- ↑ Cappelletti XIII, p. 475.
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- Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1857). Le chiese d'Italia della loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Vol. 13 (decimoterzo). Venezia: Giuseppe Antonelli. pp. 464–486.
- Kehr, Paul Fridolin (1914). Italia Pontificia. Vol. VI: Liguria sive Provincia Mediolanensis. (in Latin). Berlin: Weidemann, pp. 368-370.
- Ughelli, Ferdinando; Coleti, Niccolò (1719). Italia sacra, sive De episcopis Italiæ, et insularum adjacentium (in Latin). Vol. Tomus quartus (4). Venezia: Sebastianum Coleti. pp. 979–998.
- Zolesi, Domenico (1848). "Dimostrazione di alcuni errori ne quali e incorso il P. Semeria nella seconda sua Opera che ha per titolo SECOLI CRISTIANI DELLA LIGURIA intorno al Capitolo e Canonici della Chiesa Cattedrale di Brugnato," (in Italian). In: Rivista ligure Vol. 1, part 2 (Genoa: Sordo-Muti 1843), pp. 347-358.