Diocese of Grosseto Dioecesis Grossetana | |
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino |
Statistics | |
Area | 1,239 km2 (478 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 132,000 128,920 |
Parishes | 50 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | transferred 9 April 1138 |
Cathedral | Cattedrale di S. Lorenzo |
Secular priests | 47 (diocesan) 19 (Religious Orders) 6 Permanent Deacons |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Giovanni Roncari, OFMCap |
Bishops emeritus | Rodolfo Cetoloni |
Map | |
Website | |
Diocesi di Grosseto (in Italian) |
The Diocese of Grosseto (Latin : Dioecesis Grossetana) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy, a suffragan of the archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino, in Tuscany. Its current bishop is Giovanni Roncari, OFMCap. [1] [2]
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Rusellæ was an episcopal city from the fifth century. [3] In January 591, Pope Gregory I appointed Balbinus, Bishop of Rusellæ, to be the Apostolic Visitor to the diocese of Populonia. [4]
On 9 April 1138, Pope Innocent II transferred the see to Grosseto, citing the large number of robbers in the area and the reduction of the people of the area to desolation and poverty. [5] Rolandus, the last Bishop of Roselle, became the first Bishop of Grosseto. The transfer, however, did not proceed without incident. Some of the Canons of the cathedral of Roselle decided to stay in their accustomed home, and therefore demanded an apportionment of the Chapter's property with the Canons who had migrated to Grosseto. The dispute finally was submitted to Rome. On 23 December 1143, Pope Clement III wrote to the Provost and Chapter of Grosseto, ordering that the property and rights (to the tithe, and to death duties, for example) should be divided between the two groups; that the Canons in Roselle should elect their own Prior; but that they owed obedience to the bishop of Grosseto and due reverence to the Chapter of Grosseto. [6]
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. [7]
Bishop Restaurus (1306–1328) held a diocesan synod in Grosseto in November 1320. [8]
On 14–15 April 1692, Bishop Cesare Ugolini (1665–1699) presided over a diocesan synod in Grosseto, and issued statutes which were published. [9] On 21–22 April 1705, a diocesan synod was held by Bishop Giacomo Falconetti (1703–1710). [10]
From 1858 to 1867, for political and economic reasons, the see remained vacant. [11]
The 50 parishes of the diocese all fall within the province of Grosseto, in Tuscany. They are divided into four pastoral areas (urban, sub-urban, coastal and hills). [73] [74]
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