Diocese of Norcia

The Diocese of Norcia was a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church which existed twice. Both times, the episcopal see was in Norcia in the modern Perugia Province, Umbria region of central Italy.

History

Established in 490 as Diocese of Norcia / Nursin without explicit precursor.
Suppressed circa 1000?, its territory being merged into the then Diocese of Spoleto.
Restored on 1821.09.15 as Diocese of Norcia / Nursin, on territory split off again from the meanwhile promoted exempt Archdiocese of Spoleto.
Lost territory on 1984.03.19 to the Archdiocese of Camerino.
Suppressed on 1986.09.30, its territory and title being merged into the thus renamed Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia.

Its former Cathedral became Spoleto-Norcia's Co-Cathedral: Concattedrale di S. Maria Argentea, in Norcia, but was destroyed by an earthquake on 2016.10.30.
Furthermore it left a Minor Basilica, dedicated to Saint Benedict : Basilica di S. Benedetto, Norcia

;Suffragan Bishops of Norcia

Gaetano Bonanni
Letterio Turchi, next Bishop of Città di Castello
Raffaele Bacchettoni ; emeritate as Titular Bishop of Myrina
Domenico Bucchi-Accica, previously Titular Bishop of Lystra, later Bishop of Orvieto
Mariano Cavasci, Capuchin Friars Minor ; emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Scythopolis
Nicola Ranieri, O.F.M.
Ercolano Marini ; previously Titular Bishop of Archelaïs as Auxiliary Bishop of Spoleto ; later Archbishop of Amalfi, emeritate as first Titular Archbishop of Aprus, then Titular Archbishop of Adana
Vincenzo Migliorelli ; later Bishop of Treia, Bishop of San Severino, emeritate as Titular Bishop of Samos
Settimio Peroni ; emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Viminacium
Ilario Roatta ; next Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, died 1991
Alberto Scola, died 1982
Giuliano Agresti ; also Archbishop of Spoleto ; later Archbishop of Lucca
Ottorino Pietro Alberti, also last Archbishop of Spoleto, restyled first Archbishop of successor see Spoleto–Norcia ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagliari, died 2012.