Roman Catholic Diocese of San Severino

The former Italian Catholic Diocese of San Severino, in the Province of Macerata, Marche in Central Italy, existed until 1986. In that year it was united into the Archdiocese of Camerino to form the Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche.[1]

Old cathedral of S. Severino

History

San Severino stands on the site of the ancient Septempeda, a city of Picenum. The saint from whom the city takes its name is commonly believed to have been Bishop of Septempeda, but his date is unknown.[2]

In the eighth century it was a fortress of the Duchy of Spoleto. The Church of San Severino gave its name later to a new town that grew up around it. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it was at constant war with the neighbouring cities, especially with Camerino, and always supported the cause of the emperors, particularly of Emperor Frederick II. Louis the Bavarian named as vicar of San Severino Smeduccio della Scala, who, passing into the service of the Holy See, gave great help to the expedition of Cardinal Albornoz and became feudal lord of San Severino, a post held later by his son Onofrio.[1]

His nephew Antonio paid with his life for attempting to resist the arms of Pietro Colonna, the representative of Pope Martin V; his sons tried in vain to recapture the city (1434), which remained immediately subject to the Holy See.[1]

In the Middle Ages San Severino was part of the Archdiocese of Camerino; the old cathedral was then a collegiate church. In 1566 there was a seminary in the town.[1]

Creation of diocese

On 26 November 1586, by the Bull Superna dispositione, Pope Sixtus V made San Severino an episcopal see,[3] a suffragan of the Archbishop of Fermo.[4] The first bishop was Orazio Marzari. The cathedral was administered by a Chapter, with two dignities (the Archdeacon and the Archpriest) and thirteen Canons, one of whom was Theologus and another Penitentiary. A fourteenth was later added, under the patronage of the Tucci and Gentili families.[5]

In 1913, the diocese of Treia was removed from the supervision of the Archbishop of Camerino and assigned donec aliter provideretur, to Bishop Adam Borghini of San. Severino. On 20 February 1920, the Diocese of Treia was united to the diocese of San Severino by the Bull Boni Pastoris of Pope Benedict XV, in such a way that the bishop of San Severino was to be the Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of Treia on a permanent basis.[6]

Bishop Dionigi Pieragostini (1732–1745) held a diocesan synod in 1733.[7]

End of diocese

The current configuration of the former diocese was arranged in order to conform to Italian civil law, which was embodied in the Concordat between the Vatican and the Italian Republic of 18 February 1984. After extensive consultations, Pope John Paul II decreed that the status of the bishop governing several dioceses aeque personaliter was abolished, and that the Diocese of Macerata-Tolentino was merged with the Diocese of Osimo e Cingoli, the Diocese of Recanati and the diocese of Treia to form a single diocese, albeit with a long name. The changes were embodied in a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops in the Roman Curia, promulgated on 30 September 1986.[8] The seat of the merged dioceses was to be in Macerata.[9] All of the cathedrals except Macerata were to have the status of co-cathedral.[10] On the same day the diocese of San Severino was united permanently with the Archiocese of Camerino, under the new title Archidioecesis Camerinensis-Sancti Severini in Piceno. The former cathedral of San Severino was granted the honorary title of co-cathedral.[11]

Bishops

Diocese of San Severino (Marche)

Erected: 26 November 1586

  • Orazio Marzani (1586–1607)[12]
  • Ascanio Sperelli (1607–1631)[13]
  • Francesco Sperelli (22 Jul 1631 – 1646 Died)[14]
  • Angelo Maldachini, O.P. (19 Nov 1646 – 22 Jun 1677 Died)[15]
  • Scipione Negrelli (13 Sep 1677 – 11 May 1702 Died)[16]
  • Alessandro Avio (2 Oct 1702 – 15 Sep 1703 Died)[17]
  • Alessandro Calvi-Organi (2 Mar 1705 – 25 Jul 1721 Died)[18]
  • Giovanni Francesco Leonini (24 Sep 1721 – 16 Jan 1725 Died)[19]
  • Giulio Cesare Compagnoni (21 Feb 1725 – 12 Apr 1732 Died)[20]
  • Dionigi Pieragostini (7 May 1732 – 8 Dec 1745 Died)[21]
  • Giuseppe de Vignoli (14 Jun 1746 – 19 Dec 1757)[22]
  • Francesco Maria Forlani (19 Dec 1757 – 5 Jun 1765) [23]
  • Domenico Giovanni Prosperi (27 Jan 1766 – 1 Dec 1791 Died)[24]
  • Angelo Antonio Anselmi (26 Mar 1792 – Jan 1816 Died)[25]
  • Giacomo Ranghiasci (22 Jul 1816 – 13 May 1838 Died)[26]
  • Filippo Saverio Grimaldi (13 Sep 1838 – 1 Dec 1846 Resigned)[27]
  • Francesco Mazzuoli (4 Oct 1847 – 11 Feb 1889 Resigned)[28]
  • Aurelio Zonghi (1889–1893)[29]
  • Giosuè Bicchi (1893–1913)[30]
  • Adamo Borghini (1913–1926)[31]

Diocese of San Severino (-Treia)

United: 20 February 1920 with Diocese of Treia

  • Vincenzo Migliorelli (10 Aug 1927 – 27 Feb 1930 Resigned)
  • Pietro Tagliapietra (22 Feb 1932 – 12 Sep 1934 Appointed, Archbishop of Spoleto)
  • Ferdinando Longinotti (22 Oct 1934 – 5 Oct 1966 Retired)

United: 30 September 1986 with the Archdiocese of Camerino to form the Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche

See also

Notes and references
  1. "Diocese of San Severino". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. Francesco Lanzoni (1927), Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604) (Faenza: F. Lega), pp. 392-393. (in Italian)
  3. Bullarum diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum Romanorum pontificum Taurensis editio (in Latin). Vol. Tomus VIII. Turin: Seb. Franco. 1863. pp. 805–807.
  4. Benigni, Umberto (1912). "Diocese of San Severino" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13.
  5. Ughelli, II, p. 768. cf. Gauchat, p. 314, note 1.
  6. Acta Apostolicae Sedis 12 (1920), pp. 321-322.
  7. Collio, p. 28.
  8. Acta Apostolicae Sedis 79 (1987), pp. 729-732.
  9. AAS, p. 731, no. 1:
  10. AAS, p. 731, no. 3: Hodiernae Ecclesiae Cathedrales urbium Tolentinae, Recinetensis, Cingulanae et Treiensis titulum sument Concathedralium, in memoriam earum inclitarum et veterum traditionum.
  11. Acta Apostolicae Sedis 79 (1987), pp. 676-679.
  12. Marzani was a native of Vicenza, a Doctor in utroque iure, and a Protonotary Apostolic; he was a Collateralis of the Collegium notariorum Curiae Capitolini. He was appointed the first bishop of San Severino in the papal Consistory of 10 December 1586. He was repeatedly appointed Apostolic Administrator of vacant dioceses. In old age he was appointed a coadjutor bishop. He died on 3 July 1607. Ughelli, II, pp. 768-769. Gentili, pp. 99-101. Collio, pp. 9-13. Eubel, III, p. 298 with note 2.
  13. Ascanio Sperelli was a native of Assisi, studied at the University of Perugia, and was a Protonotary Apostolic. He was Prior of the Cathedral Chapter of Assisi (1601). He was appointed titular archbishop of Claudianopolis and Coadjutor of San Severino on 5 March 1605. He was given a Coadjutor on 24 December 1621 by Pope Gregory XV. He died on 22 July 1631. Ughelli, p. 769. Gentili, pp. 101-102. Collio, pp. 13-15. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, pp. 153 with note 2; 314 with note 1.
  14. Francesco Sperelli: Gentili, pp. 101-102. Collio, pp. 15-17. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 314, with note 2.
  15. Maldachini: Gentili, pp. 101-102. Collio, pp. 17-19. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 314, with note 3.
  16. Negrelli was appointed bishop of San Severino on 13 September 1677 by Pope Innocent XI. Collio, pp. 19-20. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 355 with note 3.
  17. Avio: Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 355 with note 4.
  18. Calvi: Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 356 with note 5.
  19. Leonini: Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 355 with note 6.
  20. Compagnoni: Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 355 with note 7.
  21. Born of a patrician family of Camerino, Pieragostini was the nephew of the Oratorian priest Dionisio Pieragostini. He studied at the University of Camerino. He became theologian and consultor of the Bishop of Camerino, Bernardino Bellucci, who eventually appointed him Vicar General. He served as Vicar Capitular during the vacancy following Bellucci's death. The new bishop, Cosimo Torelli, named him Vicar General, and Pope Clement IX named him Archdeacon of the Cathedral Chapter. He was appointed Vicar General of the diocese of Ravenna. Collio, pp. 24-29. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 378 with note 2.
  22. Vignoli was appointed Bishop of Carpentras on 19 December 1757. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 378 with note 3.
  23. Forlani was appointed Bishop of Civita Castellana e Orte by Pope Benedict XIV. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 378 with note 4.
  24. Prosperi: Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 378 with note 5.
  25. Anselmi: Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 378 with note 6.
  26. Ranghiasci was born in Gubbio in 1754. He took his degree at the University of Macerata. He became a Canon and then Canon Theologus at the Cathedral of Gubbio. He went to Rome, where he became a hospital visitor and confessor in monasteries; his labors were recognized by Pope Pius VI who named him a Canon of S. Maria Maggiore in 1786. He became the spiritual director of Carlo Emmanuele II, King of Sardinia. After the return of Pius VII from exile, Ranghiasci was named bishop of San Severino on 22 July 1816. His administration was directed to repairing the physical and spiritual destruction brought about by the French invasions. Collio, pp. 44-69. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 344.
  27. Grimaldi: Collio, pp. 69-80. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 344.
  28. Mazzuoli was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of San Severino on 21 December 1846, three weeks after the resignation of Bishop Grimaldi, and at the same time was named titular Bishop of Antipatris. He was named the bishop of San Severino on 4 October 1847. He resigned on 11 February 1889, and was granted the title of titular Bishop of Hemeria (Osroene in Syria). He died on 16 December 1890. Collio, pp. 80-85. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VIII, pp. 110, 306, 516.
  29. Born in 1830, Zonghi was a native of Fabriano and a Doctor in utroque iure and theology. He was a Canon of the cathedral, and taught Civil and Canon Law at the local seminary. He was archivist of the Archivi Storici di Fabriano, and he also reorganized the archives of Jesi, Osimo, and Fano. He was appointed Bishop of San Severino on 11 February 1889. He was transferred to the diocese of Jesi by Pope Leo XIII on 12 June 1893. He resigned the diocese in 1902, a few months before his death, and was named titular Archbishop of Stauropolis. Il divin salvatore, periodico settimanale romano (in Italian). Vol. Anno XXV, No. 39. Roma: Tip. Salviucci. 13 February 1889. p. 613. Soprintendenza archivistica per il Lazio, l'Umbria e le Marche (1960). Gli archivi storici dei comuni delle Marche (in Italian). Ufficio centrale degli archivi di Stato. p. 12.
  30. Born in 1849, Bicchi was a native of the village of S. Giustino (diocese of Città di Castello). He studied at the Pontifical Seminario Pio in Rome, and held doctoral degrees in theology and civil and canon law. He was Canon Theologus in the Chapter of the cathedral of Città di Castello, and was pro-Vicar-General. He was named bishop of San Severino on 11 June 1893, and was consecrated on 25 June at S. Agnese al Circo Agonale in Rome by Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli. He died on 18 January 1913. Il divin salvatore, periodico settimanale romano (in Italian). Vol. Anno XXIX, no. 77. Roma: Tip. Salviucci. 29 June 1893. p. 1222. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VIII, p. 516.
  31. Borghini was born in the village of Gualdo (Ferrara) in 1859. He studied in Ferrara and then in Rome, obtaining degrees in theology and laws. He was appointed titular Bishop of Carpasia and auxiliary bishop of Ferrara on 13 January 1909. He was transferred to the diocese of San Severino on 4 June 1913 by Pope Pius X. During his administration the diocese of Treja was added to his responsibilities. He died on 27 December 1926. Piero Viganò (1990). Paesi e parrocchie dell'arcidiocesi di Ferrara-Comacchio (in Italian). Ferrara: Archidiocesis Ferrariensis. p. 441.

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