Roman Catholic Diocese of Piacenza–Bobbio
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The Diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio (Latin: Dioecesis Placentina-Bobiensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church. It has existed since 1989. In northern Italy, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola. The historic Diocese of Piacenza was combined with the territory of the diocese of Bobbio-San Colombano, which was briefly united with the archdiocese of Genoa.
Diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio Dioecesis Placentina-Bobiensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | Modena-Nonantola |
Statistics | |
Area | 3,716 km2 (1,435 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 337,632 325,250 (est.) (96.4%) |
Parishes | 420 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 4th Century |
Cathedral | Basilica Cattedrale di S. Giustina e S. Maria Assunta (Piacenza) |
Co-cathedral | Concattedrale dell’Assunzione di Nostra Signora Maria (Bobbio) |
Secular priests | 218 (diocesan) 7 (Religious Orders) 42 Permanent Deacons |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Adriano Cevolotto |
Bishops emeritus | Gianni Ambrosio |
Website | |
www.diocesipiacenzabobbio.it |
Piacenza was originally a suffragan (subordinate, as part of the ecclesiastical province) of Milan. Bishop Majorianus was one of the bishops who attended the synod of Milan called by Archbishop Eusebius in 451. Piacenza was certainly suffragan to Ravenna by the time of the Roman synod of 680.[1]
On 21 October 1106, Pope Paschal II, at the Council of Guastalla, removed the dioceses of Emilia from the metropolitanate of Ravenna, and made them directly dependent upon the Holy See (papacy). This action was in punishment for the schism carried on by Archbishop Wibert of Ravenna (Antipope Clement III), in concert with the Emperor Henry IV.[2] On 7 August 1118, Pope Gelasius II withdrew Pope Paschal's order, and returned the dioceses to the metropolitanate of Ravenna;[3] his decision was confirmed by Pope Calixtus II in 1121, and in 1125 by Pope Honorius II.[4] Bishop Arduinus of Piacenza (1119?–1147), however, resisted efforts of the popes and the Archbishop of Ravenna to return his diocese to suffragan status.[5] On 29 March 1148, Pope Eugene III wrote to Archbishop Moyses of Ravenna that he had approved the election of Bishop Joannes of Piacenza. On 9 November 1148, however, he wrote to Bishop-elect Joannes, ordering him to have himself consecrated by the Archbishop of Ravenna. After resisting for more than two years, Giovanni finally submitted to the Pope's order, and was consecrated by the Archbishop of Ravenna on 3 July 1151.[6]
The people of Piacenza did not let the matter rest. They solicited the intervention of Abbot Peter the Venerable of Cluny, informing him of their point of view, that their metropolitan was the pope, not the Archbishops of Aquileia or Ravenna. They noted that Urban II and Calixtus II had consecrated their bishops.[7] In 1155, with a new Pope, Adrian IV and a new bishop of Piacenza, Ugo Pierleoni, the matter was raised again, and Adrian issued a bull exempting Bishop Ugo from subjection to Ravenna, while at the same time claiming an inability to decide the issue between Ravenna and Piacenza.[8] In March 1179, Bishop Tedaldo was present at the Third Lateran Council in Rome, and he subscribed along with the bishops directly dependent upon the Holy See (papacy), not with the suffragans of Ravenna.[9]
In 1582 the diocese of Bologna was raised to the status of a metropolitan archbishopric. Piacenza was made a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bologna by Pope Gregory XIII in the bull Universi orbis of 10 December 1582.[10]
In 1806, in accordance with faculties specially granted to him by Pope Pius VII on 5 April 1806, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Caprara removed the dioceses of Piacenza, San Donnino, and Parma from the jurisdiction of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bologna, and attached them to the Archdiocese of Genoa. On 30 March 1818, Pope Pius VII removed the same three dioceses from the jurisdiction of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Genoa, and made them directly dependent upon the Holy See.[11]