Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua (Italian: Diocesi di Padova; Latin: Dioecesis Patavina) is an episcopal see of the Catholic Church in Veneto, northern Italy. It was erected in the 3rd century.[1][2] The diocese of Padua was originally a suffragan (subordinate) of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. When the Patriarchate was suppressed permanently in 1752, it became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Udine. In 1818, when the dioceses of northern Italy were reorganized by Pope Pius VII, it became a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Venice, and remains so today.[3]

Diocese of Padua

Dioecesis Patavina

Diocesi di Padova
Location
CountryItaly
Statistics
Area3,297 km2 (1,273 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2016)
1,075,698
1,029,000 (est.)
Parishes459
Information
RiteRoman
Established3rd Century
CathedralBasilica Cattedrale di S. Maria
Secular priests685 (diocesan)
273 (religious orders)
53 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopClaudio Cipolla
Bishops emeritusAntonio Mattiazzo
Map
Website
www.diocesipadova.it
Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua (Padua)

The current Bishop is Claudio Cipolla.

The diocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its bishop is the Cathedral-Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta. The diocese also contains the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua and the Basilica of Santa Giustina.

Territory

The Diocese of Padua covers the most part of the Province of Padua, out of a main part of the higher plain. It also includes areas from the surrounding provinces of Vicenza (Thiene, Asiago and Plateau of the Sette Comuni, Monte Grappa, southern Valsugana), Venice (Riviera del Brenta), Treviso (Valdobbiadene) and Belluno (Quero).

History

In a manuscript of the 14th century,[4] containing a list of the bishops of Padua, the statement is made that Prosdocimus, a disciple of S. Peter the Apostle, was sent to Pavia in 42, and that he died in the reign of Antoninus Pius (138–160).[5] He baptized Vitalianus, the king of Padua, his wife, and the whole people of Padua (Padua was actually a municipium under the Lex Julia Municipalis). During his episcopate, Duke Andrea Dandolo of Venice came to Padua. Justina (Giustina), the daughter of Vitalianus was driven out and killed. All this information, as Francesco Lanzoni points out, derives from the hagiographical fiction, the "Life of S. Prosdocimus", which is not older than the 12th century. Of his thirty successors in the episcopal list, only two have any external documentation at all, and those two are given in the wrong order in the list.[6]

Reorganization

In 1751, pressured both by Austria and Venice, who were exasperated by the numerous discords in the patriarchate of Aquileia, Pope Benedict XIV was compelled to intervene in the ecclesiastical and political disturbances. In the bull "Injuncta Nobis" of 6 July 1751, the patriarchate of Aquileia was completely suppressed, and in its place the Pope created two separate archdioceses, Udine and Goritza. The dioceses which had been suffragans of Aquileia and were under Venetian political control, Padua among them, were assigned to the new archdiocese of Udine.[7]

Post-Napoleonic reorganization

The violent expansionist military policies of the French Revolutionary Republic had brought confusion and dislocation to the Po Valley. Following the redistribution of European territories at the Congress of Vienna, the Papacy faced the difficult task of restoring and restructuring the Church in various territories, according to the wishes of their rulers. Padua and Venice were under the control of Austria, and therefore a Concordat had to be negotiated with the government of the Emperor Francis. One of the requirements of the Austrian government was the elimination of several metropolitanates and the suppression of a number of bishoprics which were no longer viable due to the bad climate (malaria and cholera) and the impoverishment of the dioceses due to migration and industrialization; it was expected that this would be done to the benefit of the Patriarchate of Venice.

Pope Pius VII, therefore, issued the bull "De Salute Dominici Gregis" on 1 May 1818, embodying the conclusions of arduous negotiations. The metropolitan archbishopric of Udine was abolished and its bishop made suffragan to Venice. The dioceses of Caprularum (Caorle) and Torcella were suppressed and their territories assigned to the Patriarchate of Venice; Belluno and Feltre were united under a single bishop, aeque personaliter, and assigned to Venice; Padua and Verona became suffragans of Venice.[8]

Diocesan synods

A diocesan synod was an irregularly held, but important, meeting of the bishop of a diocese and his clergy. Its purpose was (1) to proclaim generally the various decrees already issued by the bishop; (2) to discuss and ratify measures on which the bishop chose to consult with his clergy; (3) to publish statutes and decrees of the diocesan synod, of the provincial synod, and of the Holy See.[9]

Bishop Giovanni Savelli (1295–1299) held a diocesan synod in 1296, fragments of whose constitutions were published by Francesco Scipione Dondi dall' Orologio.[10] Bishop Ildebrandino Conti (1319–1352) held a diocesan synod in 1339. Bishop Pietro Pileo di Prata (1359–1370) presided over a synod in 1360.[11]

On 3 June 1433, Bishop Pietro Donato (1428–1447) held a diocesan synod, the constitutions of which were published by Bishop Dondi.[12] Bishop Fantino Dandolo (1448–1459) presided over a diocesan synod in 1457. Another synod was held by Bishop Pietro Barozzi (1487–1507) in 1488.[13]

A diocesan synod was held in 1579 by Bishop Federico Cornaro (1577–1590).[14] Bishop Marco Antonio Cornaro (1632–1639) presided over his seventh diocesan synod in Pavia on 17 and 18 April 1624, and had the decrees published.[15] A diocesan synod was held by Bishop Giorgio Cornaro (bishop of Padua) (1643–1663) on 20–22 August 1647.[16] Bishop Gregory Barbarigo (1664–1697) held a synod in 1683.

Bishops of Padua

to 1200
...
  • Crispinus (attested 342–346)[17]
...
  • Bergullus (attested 571–577)[18]
...
  • Adalbertus (attested 942)[19]
...
  • Gauslinus (Causilinus) (attested 964–977)[20]
...
  • Urso (Ursus) (attested 998–1027)[21]
  • Aistulfus (attested 1031)[22]
  • Burchardus (Burhardus) (attested 1034–1040)[23]
  • Arnaldus (attested 1046–1047)[24][25]
  • Bernardus Maltraversus (attested 1048–1058)[26]
  • Waltolf (1060–1064)[27]
  • Oldericus (1064–1080)[28]
  • Milo (1084–1095)[29]
  • Petrus (1096–1106)[30]
  • Sinibaldus (1106–1125)[31]
  • Bellinus (1128–1147)[32]
  • Giovanni (Kazo) (1148–1165)[33]
  • Gerardo Offreducci da Marostica (1169–1213)[34]

1200 to 1500

1500 to 1800

since 1800

References
  1. "Diocese of Padova {Padua}" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  2. "Diocese of Padova" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  3. Kehr, Italia pontificia VII. 1, p. 156.
  4. Dondi dall'Orologio, Dissertazioni Vol. 1, "Documenta", pp. 8–12. Lanzoni, pp. 915–917.
  5. Giustiniani, pp. I–II, gives the dates of 48 and 141. He also credits Prosdocimus with the construction of the church of S. Sofia and the oratory of the Virgin Mary in Prato della Valle; such construction was impossible when Christianity was still an illegal association rather than a legal cult.
  6. Lanzoni, p. 915: "...questa lista non abbia alcun valore storico...."
  7. Sanctissimi domini nostri Benedicti Papae XIV Bullarium (in Latin). Tomus tertius. Mechlin: Hanicq. 1827. pp. 41–61.
  8. Pius VII (1853). Andreas Barberi and Rinaldo Secreti (ed.). Bullarii Romani continuatio (in Latin). Tomus decimus quintus continens pontificatus Pii 7. annum decimum nonum ad vicesimum quartum. Roma. pp. 36–40. Cappelletti X, p. 808.
  9. Benedictus XIV (1842). "Lib. I. caput secundum. De Synodi Dioecesanae utilitate". Benedicti XIV ... De Synodo dioecesana libri tredecim (in Latin). Tomus primus. Mechlin: Hanicq. pp. 42–49. John Paul II, Constitutio Apostolica de Synodis Dioecesanis Agendis (March 19, 1997): Acta Apostolicae Sedis 89 (1997), pp. 706-727.
  10. "Documentum XXXIII": Francesco Scipione Dondi dall' Orologio (1815). Dissertazioni sopra l'istoria ecclesiastica di Padova (in Italian). Dissertazione VIII. Padova: tipografia del Seminario. pp. 65–69.
  11. Francesco Scipione Dondi dall' Orologio (1816), Dissertazione sopra li riti, disciplina, costumanze della Chiesa di Padova, sino al XIV secolo, (Padova: Stamperia del Seminario), p. 12.
  12. Documentum XIII": Francesco Scipione Dondi dall' Orologio (1817). Dissertazioni sopra l'istoria ecclesiastica di Padova (in Latin). Dissertazione IX. pp. 32–43.
  13. Dondi dall' Orologio (1816), Dissertazione sopra li riti, disciplina, costumanze della Chiesa di Padova, sino al XIV secolo, p. 12.
  14. Catalogue des livres imprimez de la Bibliotheque du roy. Theologie (in French). Premiere partie. Paris: de l'Imprimerie royale. 1739. pp. 295, no. 1348.
  15. Marco Cornaro (1624). Constitutiones et decreta Illustriss .& Reuerendiss. D. D. Marci Cornelii Patauini Episcopi Comitisque Saccensis in septima diœcesana synodo promulgata die 17. & 18. Aprilis 1624 (in Latin). Pavia: Typis Pasquati.
  16. Georgius Cornaro (1660). Constitutiones et decreta in sua prima Dioecesana Synodo celebrata anno 1647 diebus 20. 21. et 22. Augusti promulgata (in Latin). Padua: P. Frambotti.
  17. Crispinus: Lanzoni, p. 912.
  18. Bergillus: Lanzoni, pp. 912–913.
  19. Adalbertus: Schwartz, p. 56.
  20. Gauslinus: Schwartz, p. 56.
  21. In 1026, Urso was serving as papal Apocrisiarius. Schwartz, p. 56.
  22. Aistulfus: Schwartz, p. 56.
  23. Bishop Burchardus: Schwartz, p. 56.
  24. Bishop Arnaldus attended the synod of Pavia on 25 October 1046. Schwartz, p. 57.
  25. "Diocese of Padova". Retrieved 2010-04-13..
  26. Bishop Bernardus was granted the right to coin money by the Emperor Henry III in 1049. Schwartz, p. 57.
  27. Waltolf: Schwartz, p. 57.
  28. Odelricus: Schwartz, pp. 57-58.
  29. Milo was a Ghibelline. He took part in the anti-Gregorian synod of Brixen on 26 June 1080. He took part in the synod of Ravenna of the Antipope Clement III on 27 February 1086. Schwartz, p. 58.
  30. Bishop Petrus was a Ghibbeline, and was deposed by Pope Paschal II at the Council of Guastalla in October 1106. He refused to submit or leave, and held his episcopal seat and power as late as 1110. Kehr VII. 1, p. 159, no. 7.
  31. Sinibaldus was appointed to superscede the deposed Bishop Petrus, but he was expelled from his diocese, and lived at the church of S. Thecla Adestina. Kehr VII. 1, p. 159, no. 7.
  32. Bellinus may have been German, but it has also been argued that he was a native of Padua. He was a Canon and Archpriest of the cathedral Chapter of Padua, attested from 1107 to 1126. He died on 26 November 1147. Francesco Scipione Dondi dall' Orologio (1808). Dissertazioni sopra l'istoria ecclesiastica di Padova. Dissertazione V and VI. Padova: tipografia del Seminario. pp. 6–51. Cappelletti X, p. 508–511.
  33. Giovanni Kazo (Joannes Caccius) was a member of the Paduan nobility, and a Doctor of Canon Law. On 24 July 1148, Bishop Giovanni performed an investiture. On 6 October 1161, he entered into an agreement with Frederick Barbarossa. Ughelli V, pp. 440–441. Cappelletti X, pp. 511–513. Gams, p. 748, column 1.
  34. Gerardo: Ughelli V, pp. 441–444. Cappelletti X, pp. 514–517. Gams, p. 748, column 1.
  35. Giordano had been Provost of the cathedral Chapter of Modena. He was elected Bishop of Padua on 28 January 1214; his successor as Provost of Modena was appointed on 31 July 1214. Bishop Giordano died on 5 November 1228. Francesco Scipione Dondi dall' Orologio (march. bp. of Padua.) (1813). Dissertazioni sopra l'istoria ecclesiastica di Padova (in Italian). Dissertazione settima. Padova: tipografia del Seminario. pp. 3–37. Cappelletti X, pp. 517–529. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 385 (where he is called Joannes).
  36. Forzatè: Bishop Giovanni died on 24 June 1283. Dondi, "Dissertazioni" VIII, p. 5.
  37. Marcello took possession of his diocese on 28 July 1409. Dondi dall' Orologio. Dissertazioni (in Italian). Dissertazione IX. p. 10.
  38. Corner, Flaminio (1755). Creta sacra sive de episcopis utriusque ritus graeci et latini in insula Cretae. Vol. II. Venice: Jo. Battista Pasquale. p. 89.
  39. A native of Venice, Cornaro was the son of Senator Giorgio Cornaro and brother of Catherine, Queen of Cyprus. He was named a cardinal by Pope Alexander VI on 28 September 1500. He was appointed Bishop of Padua by Pope Leo X on 9 March 1517. He held a diocesan synod in 1524. He died in Venice on 24 July 1524. Cappelletti X, p. 551. Eubel II, pp. 24, no. 33; III, pp. 7, no. 35; 267.
  40. Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol IV. pp. 275–276.
  41. Nicolaus Comnenus Papadopoli (1726). Historia gymnasii Patavini. Tomus I. Venice: Sebastian Coleti. pp. 111–112.
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