Roman Catholic Diocese of Matelica

The Diocese of Matelica (Latin: Dioecesis Mathelicensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Matelica in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region of Marche.[1][2]

History

Camillo Acquacotta conjectures that it was around 578 that the first epoch of the diocese of Matelica came to an end, as a result of the massive destruction of the Lombard invasions.[3]

On 8 July 1785, the diocese of Matelica was revived by Pope Pius VI, its territory was separated from that of the diocese of Fabriano, and it was united aeque principaliter with the Diocese of Fabriano to form the Diocese of Fabriano e Matelica, two dioceses joined by the fact of having one bishop. The Collegiate Church of S. Maria e S. Bartolomeo was erected into a cathedral church, and made immediately subject to the Holy See (Papacy). Its Chapter was appointed to be the cathedral Chapter, consisting of an Archpriest and thirteen Canons, two of whom would fill the offices of Theologus and Penitentiary. The rights of the bishop and diocese of Camerino over the city and territory of Matelica were extinguished. The bishop of Fabriano e Matelica would be expected to live part of the year in Fabriano and part in Matelica.[4]

In a decree of the Second Vatican Council, it was recommended that dioceses be reorganized to take into account modern developments.[5] As part of the project begun on orders from Pope John XXIII, and continued under his successors, to reduce the number of dioceses in Italy and to rationalize their borders in terms of modern population changes and shortages of clergy, the diocese of Matelica was united to the diocese of Fabriano. The change was approved by Pope John Paul II in an audience of 27 September 1986, and by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops of the Papal Curia on 30 September 1986. Its name was to be Dioecesis Fabrianensis-Mathelicensis. The seat of the diocese was to be in Fabriano. The former cathedral in Matelica was to have the honorary title of co-cathedral, and its chapter was to be the Capitulum Concathedralis. There was to be only one episcopal curia, one seminary, one ecclesiastical tribunal; and all the clergy were to be incardinated in the diocese of Fabriano-Matelica.[6]

Bishops of Matelica
  • Equitius (attested 487)[7]
  • Basilius (attested 499)[8]
  • Florentius (attested 551)[9]
Bishops of Matelica e Fabriano
  • Nicola Pietro Andrea Zoppetti, O.E.S.A. (1785–1796)[10]
  • Giovanni Francesco Capelletti (1800–1806)[11]
  • Domenico Buttaoni (1806–1822)[12]
  • Pietro Balducci, C.M. (1822–1837)[13]
  • Francesco Faldi (1837–1858)[14]
  • Antonio Maria Valenziani (1858–1876)[15]
  • Leopoldo Angelo Santanchè, O.F.M. Ref. (1876-1883)
  • Macario Sorini (1883-1893)
  • Aristide Golfieri (1895-1895)[16]
  • Luciano Gentilucci (1895-1909)
  • Pietro Zanolini (1910-1913)[17]
  • Andrea Cassulo (1914–1921)[18]
  • Luigi Ermini (1921–1945)
  • Lucio Crescenzi (1945–1960)
  • Macario Tinti (1960-1978 Retired)
  • Luigi Scuppa (1978-1986)[19]
The diocese of Matelica was suppressed on 30 September 1986.

See also

References
  1. "Diocese of Matelica" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  2. "Diocese of Matelica" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  3. Acquacotta, p. 43.
  4. Bullarii Romani continuatio. Tomus septimus continens pontificatus Pii VI. annum nonum ad duodecimum (in Latin). Vol. Tomus septimus. Roma: ex typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae. 1843. pp. 406–413.
  5. Directoriae normae clare a Concilio impertitae de dioecesium recognitione; indicia atque elementa apta ad actionem pastoralem aestimandam ab episcopis suppeditata quibus plurium dioecesium regimen commissum est.
  6. Acta Apostolicae Sedis An. et Vol. LXXIX (Città del Vaticano: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis 1987), pp. 699-700.
  7. Bishop Equitius attended the third Roman synod of Pope Felix III on 13 March 487. J.-D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus VII (Florence: Zatta 1762), p. 1171. Gams, p. 704 column 1. Lanzoni, p. 489.
  8. Egidio Forcellini (1887). Vincentius De-Vic (ed.). Totius latinitatis lexicon (in Latin). Vol. Tomus quartus (post tertiam auctam et emendatum ed.). Prato: Aldina. p. 398. Lanzoni, p. 489.
  9. Florentius was present in Constantinople with Pope Vigilius, and supported the Pope in the excommunication and degradation of Bishop Theodorus of Caesarea Cappadociae on 14 August 551. J.-D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus IX (Florence: Zatta 1763), p. 60. Acquacotta, p. 30. Cappelletti, pp. 612-613.
  10. Zoppetti was born in Fabriano in 1735. He became a Master of theology in 1771 at the age of thirty-six. He lectured on philosophy and theology in the houses of his Order in their province of Umbria, and became director of studies of the province. He was appointed Bishop of Fabriano e Matelica on 26 September 1785 by Pope Pius VI, and was consecrated in Rome on 29 September by Cardinal Giovanni Archinto. He died on 12 July 1796. Cappelletti, p. 654. Calendario ecclesiastico per l'anno 1882 (in Italian). Vol. II. Roma: Tip. sociale. 1881. pp. 156–157. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 212 with note 2.
  11. A native of Rieti, Capelletti was appointed Bishop of Matelica e Fabriano on 11 August 1800 by Pope Pius VII. He was transferred to the diocese of Ascoli Piceno on 26 August 1806. Gams, p. 704 column 2. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, pp. 91, 191.
  12. Buttaoni: Gams, p. 704 column 2.
  13. Balducci: Gams, p. 704 column 2.
  14. Faldi: Gams, p. 704 column 2.
  15. Valenziani: Gams, p. 704 column 2.
  16. Born in 1843 in Lugo (Spain), Golfieri was appointed Bishop of Fabriano and of Matelica on 18 March 1895, and then Bishop of Città di Castello by Pope Leo XIII on 29 November 1895. He died on 1 May 1909. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VIII, pp. 207, 267.
  17. Zanolini was named Bishop of Fabriano e Matelica by Pope Pius X on 22 February 1910. He was appointed Bishop of Lodi on 8 July 1913. He died on 6 December 1923.
  18. Cassulo was appointed titular Archbishop of Leontopolis in Augustamnica.
  19. Scuppa continued, as Bishop of the single diocese of Fabriano-Matelica, until his death on 26 November 2001.

Bibliography

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