Diocese of Volterra


The Diocese of Volterra is a Latin church diocese of the Catholic Church in Tuscany, central Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Pisa.
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History

Volterra was an ancient Etruscan town, later conquered by the Romans.
According to the Liber Pontificalis, Volterra was the birthplace of St. Linus, the immediate successor of St. Peter. Nothing is known of its Christian origins. Justus, along with his brother Clement and Ottaviano, is one of the three patrons of the diocese of Volterra, and was involved in the Schism of the Three Chapters.
In the Carolingian period it belonged to the Marquisate of Tuscany; with the approval of Henry, son of Frederick Barbarossa, its governance passed into the hands of the bishop, until his temporal authority was suspended by the commune. In the wars or factions of the 13th century, Volterra, being Ghibelline, was continually embroiled with the Florentines, who captured it in 1254, but won permanent control only in 1361.
The diocese of Volterra was immediately subject to the Holy See until 1856, when it became a suffragan of Pisa.

Diocesan synods

A diocesan synod was an irregularly held but important meeting of the bishop of a diocese and his clergy. Its purposes were to proclaim the various decrees already issued by the bishop, to discuss and ratify measures on which the bishop chose to consult with his clergy, and to publish statutes and decrees of the diocesan synod, of the provincial synod, and of the Holy See.
Bishop Guido Servidio presided over a diocesan synod in the cathedral of Volterra on 8–10 May 1590, and had the constitutions of the meeting published. Bishop Orazio degli Albizzi held a diocesan synod on 2 October 1657, and published the acts; he held another synod on 11 November 1674. A diocesan synod was held by Bishop Ottavio del Rosso in the cathedral on 14–15 June 1684, the acts of which were published. He held his second synod in the cathedral of Volterra on 26–27 April 1690; its decrees were also published.

Bishops of Volterra

to 800

  • Eumantius
  • Opilio
  • Eucharistius
  • Elpidius
  • Gaudentius
  • Geminianus
  • Marcianus
  • Tommaso

800 to 1200

  • Grippo
  • Petrus
  • Andreas
  • Gauginus
  • Petrus
  • Alboinus
  • Adelardus
  • Boso
  • Petrus
  • Benedictus
  • Gunfredus
  • Guido
  • Herimannus
  • Petrus
  • Ruggero Gisalbertini
  • Crescentius
  • Adimarus
  • Galganus
  • Hugo Saladini
  • Hildebrandus

1200 to 1500

  • Paganus de Ardenghesca
  • Galganus
  • Rainerius Ubertini
  • Albertus Scolari
  • Rainerius Ubertini
  • Rainerius Belforti
  • Rainuccius Allegretti
  • Filippo Belforti
  • Almerico Chiati Bishop-elect
  • Pietro Corsini
  • Andrea Cordoni
  • Lucius de Cagli
  • Simon Pagani
  • Onofrio Visdomini O.E.S.A.
  • Antonio Cipolloni
  • Giovanni Ricci
  • Luigi Aliotti
  • Jacopo di Scolaio degli Spini
  • Stefano del Buono
  • Roberto Adimari
  • Roberto Cavalcanti
  • Giovanni Neroni Diotisalvi
  • Ugolino Giugni
  • Antonio degli Agli
  • Cardinal Francesco Soderini

1500 to 1800

since 1800

  • Giuseppe Gaetano Incontri
  • Ferdinando Baldanzi
  • Giuseppe Targioni
  • Ferdinando Capponi
  • Giuseppe Gelli
  • Emanuele Mignone
  • Raffaele Carlo Rossi, O.C.D.
  • Dante Carlo Munerati, S.D.B.
  • Antonio Bagnoli
  • Marino Bergonzini
  • Roberto Carniello
  • Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli
  • Mansueto Bianchi
  • Alberto Silvani
  • Roberto Campiotti

Books

  • p. 763-764.
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Studies

  • Kehr, Paul Fridolin. . vol. III. Berlin 1908. pp. 279–315.
  • Lancini, Gaetano. Illustrazione sulla cattedrale di Volterra. Siena: Sordo-Muti.
  • Lanzoni, Francesco,, Faenza 1927, pp. 559–564.
  • Paganelli, Jacopo. . Dissertation: University of Pisa. 2015.
  • Paganelli, Jacopo. 2015, Rassegna Volterrana.
  • Schwartz, Gerhard,, Leipzig-Berlin 1913, pp. 223–224.
  • Schneider, Fedor. . Roma: Loescher.
  • Volpe, G.. "Vescovi e Comune di Volterra," in: Toscana Medievale, pp. 143–311.