Roman Catholic Diocese of Savona-Noli

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Diocese of Savona-Noli

Dioecesis Savonensis-Naulensis
Savona Cathedral 2010.jpg
Savona Cathedral
Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Genoa
Statistics
Area400 km2 (150 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2020)
155,000 (est.)
153,000 (guess)
Parishes70
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established10th Century
CathedralCattedrale di Nostra Signora Assunta (Savona)
Co-cathedralConcattedrale di S. Pietro (Noli)
Secular priests 47 (diocesan)
30 (Religious Orders)
9 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Vittorio Lupi
Map
Roman Catholic Diocese of Savona-Noli in Italy.svg
Website
chiesasavona.it

The Diocese of Savona-Noli (Latin : Dioecesis Savonensis-Naulensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Italy. It was historically the Diocese of Savona, from the tenth century. In 1820 the Diocese of Noli was united to the Diocese of Savona. [1] It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Genoa. [2] [3]

Contents

History

It is claimed, dubiously, that Bishop Bernardus transferred the seat of the diocese of Vado to Savona in 966, and that the action was confirmed by Pope Gregory V in 995. There is no evidence for those statements. [4]

Bishop Guido Lomello attended the Third Lateran Council of Pope Alexander III in March 1179, and subscribed the acts of the council in the company of the other suffragans of Archbishop Algisius of Milan. [5]

In 1230, the bishop of Savona attended a provincial council of Archbishop Henricus of Milan. [6]

In 1239, Cardinal Giacomo da Pecorara, suburbicarian Bishop of Palestrina, was sent by Pope Gregory IX to France as papal legate, to deal with the Albigensian heresy. [7] When he stopped in Savona, he removed the parish of Noli from the diocese of Savona with papal authorization, and established a new diocese of Noli. [8] He assigned it as a suffragan of the archdiocese of Genoa, even though Savona remained a suffragan of the diocese of Milan. [9] On 25 April 1249, Pope Innocent IV confirmed the city status of Noli, and the cathedral status of S. Paragorius. [10]

In 1542, the senate of Genoa, which had control over Savona, ordered the destruction of the cathedral of S. Maria and numerous other buildings to build a wall, a gateway and fortifications. The destruction was completed by 1545. The cathedral Chapter relocated its services to the parish church of S. Paolo. [11] In 1544, Pope Paul III ordered that the church of S. Francesco should be elevated to cathedral status and the adjacent Franciscan convent converted into an episcopal palace. The dilapidated medieval church was destroyed in 1589, to make way for a new cathedral. [12] The new building was completed in 1602 and dedicated by Bishop Pietro Francesco Costa on 24 April 1605 in honor of the Assumption of the body of the Virgin Mary into Heaven (S. Maria Assunta). [13]

On 8 December 1820, with the bull "Dominici Gregis", Pope Pius VII joined the diocese of Savona and the diocese of Noli in one bishop, aeque personaliter under the title "Savonensis et Naulensis." [14] He cited as justification the small number of faithful and the diocese of Noli's inadequate income. [15]

Diocesan Reorganization

Following the Second Vatican Council, and in accordance with the norms laid out in the council's decree, Christus Dominus chapter 40, [16] Pope Paul VI ordered consultations among the members of the Congregation of Bishops in the Vatican Curia, the Italian Bishops Conference, and the various dioceses concerned. [17]

On 18 February 1984, the Vatican and the Italian State signed a new and revised concordat. Based on the revisions, a set of Normae was issued on 15 November 1984, which was accompanied in the next year, on 3 June 1985, by enabling legislation. According to the agreement, the practice of having one bishop govern two separate dioceses at the same time, aeque personaliter, was abolished. The Vatican continued consultations which had begun under Pope John XXIII for the merging of small dioceses, especially those with personnel and financial problems, into one combined diocese.

On 30 September 1986, Pope John Paul II ordered that the dioceses of Savona and Noli be merged into one diocese with one bishop, with the Latin title "Dioecesis Savonensis-Naulensis". The seat of the diocese was to be in Savona, whose cathedral was to serve as the cathedral of the merged diocese. The cathedral in Noli was to have the honorary title of "co-cathedral"; the Chapter of Noli was to be a Capitulum Concathedralis. There was to be only one diocesan Tribunal, in Savona, and likewise one seminary, one College of Consultors, and one Priests' Council. The territory of the new diocese was to include the territory of the suppressed diocese. The new diocese was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Genoa. [18]

Bishops

to 1200

  • Bernardus (attested 992–998) [19]
  • Joannes (attested 999–1004) [20]
  • Ardeman (attested 1014) [21]
  • ? Antellinus (1028) [22]
  • ? Brixianus (1046) [23]
  • Amicus (attested 1079/1080) [24]
  • ? Giordano of Savona (1080) [25]
  • Grossolanus (attested 1098–1102) [26]
  • Wilielmus (attested 1110–1122) [27]
  • Ottaviano of Pavia (c.1122–1128) [28]
...
  • Guido [29]
  • Ambrosius (c. 1183–1192) [30]
  • Bonifacius de Carretto (1193–1199) [31]
  • Guala (1199) [32]

1200 to 1400

  • Antonius de' Saluzzi (attested 1200–1203) [33]
  • Petrus (attested 1206)
...
  • Albertus de Novara (1221–1230) [34]
  • Henricus (1230–ca. 1239)
  • Bonifatius (attested 1247) [35]
  • Conradus de Ancisa (attested 1251–1264) [36]
  • Rufinus Colombo (c. 1278–1284) [37]
Sede vacante (1284 ?–1289) [38]
  • Henricus de Ponzono (1289–1297) [39]
  • Gregorius (attested 1297)
  • Gualterius (attested 1303)
  • Jacobus de Caradengo de Niella (attested 1305, 1311) [40]
  • Federicus Cibo (1317–1342) [41]
  • Gerardus de Vasconibus de Pergamo, O.E.S.A. (1342–1355) [42]
  • Antonius Manfredi de Saluciis (1355–1376) [43]
  • Dominicus de Lagneto (1376–1384)
  • Antonius de Viale (1386–1394) (Roman Obedience) [44]
  • Joannes Grimaldi (1394–1405) [45]

1400 to 1600

Giuliano della Rovere (1499–1502) Administrator [52]
Raffaele Sansone Riario (1511–1516 Resigned) Administrator [55]
Agostino Spínola (1528–1537) Administrator [57]
Giacomo Fieschi (1537–1545) Administrator, bishop-elect [58]

1600 to 1800

since 1800

  • Vincenzo Maria Maggiolo (1804–1820) [71]
  • Giuseppe Vincenzo Airenti, O.S.D. (1820–1830) [72]
  • Agostino Maria Demari (1833–1840) [73]
  • Alessandro Ottaviano Ricardi di Netro (1842–1867) [74]
  • Giovanni Battista Cerruti [75] (22 February 1867–21 Mar 1879)
  • Giuseppe Boraggini (12 May 1879 – 30 April 1897) [76]
  • Giuseppe Salvatore Scatti (15 February 1898 – 30 June 1926)
  • Pasquale Righetti (20 December 1926 – 7 July 1948)
  • Giovanni Battista Parodi (14 September 1948 – 15 Jul 1974)
  • Franco Sibilla (15 July 1974 – 8 September 1980) (transferred to Asti)
  • Giulio Sanguineti (15 December 1980 – 7 December 1989) (transferred to La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato)
  • Roberto Amadei (21 April 1990 – 21 November 1991) (transferred to Bergamo)
  • Dante Lafranconi (7 December 1991 – 8 September 2001) (transferred to Cremona)
  • Domenico Calcagno (25 January 2002 – 2007) [77]
  • Vittorio Lupi (30 November 2007 – )

Parishes

Of the 71 parishes 68 lie within the Province of Savona, Liguria. The remaining three are in the neighbouring commune of Cogoleto, Province of Genoa, also in Liguria. [78] In 2014 there was one Catholic priest for every 1,600 Catholics.

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  4. ↑ Kehr VI. 2, p. 353: "Narrant Verzellinus (ed. I 156) et Augustinus de Montibus (Compendio p. 36), a. 966 Bernardum episcopum sedem episcopalem Vado Sabbatio Savonam transtulisse, quod a. 995 Gregorius V confirmaverit (cf. Desimoni in Atti della Soc. Ligure XIX 49 n. 49), sed de re valde dubitandum est, quum nulla alia notitia de re ad nos pervenerit." Desimoni labels the claimed document of Gregory V "dubia".
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  6. ↑ Giorgio Giulini, Memorie spettanti alla storia della città e campagna di Milano, Volume 4 (Milano: Lombardi 1855), p. 327. The archbishop died on 16 September 1230.
  7. ↑ Giuseppe Gardoni, "Pecorara, Giacomo," (in Italian), in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 82 (2015), § 7.
  8. ↑ Verzellino, pp. 207-208.
  9. ↑ Kehr VI. 2, p. 353: "Dioecesis Savonensis saec. XIII Naulum (Noli) cum sua parochia amisit, quam Gregorius IX a. 1239 propriam dioecesim esse voluit et cum Brugnatensi aeque principaliter univit. Nova Naulensis dioecesis tune Januensis archiepiscopi provinciae addicta est, Savonensi tamen episcopatu sub Mediolanensis archiepiscopi iurisdictione remanente."
  10. ↑ Verzellino, p. 208. Élie Berger, Les registres d'Innocent IV Tome 2 (Paris: Thorin 1887), p. 64, no. 1152.
  11. ↑ Cappelletti XIII, pp. 507-508.
  12. ↑ Verzellino, pp. 621-627.
  13. ↑ Verzellino, p. 524. Giuseppe Andrea Rocca, Le chiese e gli spedali della città de Savona non più esistenti o che subirono modificazioni: ricordi storici(in Italian), (Coi tipi di B. Canovetti, 1872), pp. 51-53.
  14. ↑ Bullarii Romani continuatio (in Latin). Vol. Tomus decimus quintus (15). Rome: typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae. 1853. pp. 351–353.: "Unus idcirco, idemque Savonensis et Naulensis nuncupandus episcopus ambarum ecclesiarum, et dioecesium curam geret, et administrationem, ac imposterum quilibet novus antistes semper possessionem capiet primum in Savonensi, et deinde in Naulensi ecclesiis...."
  15. ↑ "Dominici Gregis" § 2: "Haec Nos mente reputavimus cum statura accepimus Naulensis episcopalis ecclesiae, quae scilicet quinque mille dumtaxat Christifideles in tota civitate, ac dioecesi percenset, et cujus mensa perexiguum exhibet redditum trium millium nongentarum circiter librarum monetae illarum partium...."
  16. ↑ Christus Dominus 40. Therefore, in order to accomplish these aims this sacred synod decrees as follows: 1) The boundaries of ecclesiastical provinces are to be submitted to an early review and the rights and privileges of metropolitans are to be defined by new and suitable norms. 2) As a general rule all dioceses and other territorial divisions that are by law equivalent to dioceses should be attached to an ecclesiastical province. Therefore dioceses which are now directly subject to the Apostolic See and which are not united to any other are either to be brought together to form a new ecclesiastical province, if that be possible, or else attached to that province which is nearer or more convenient. They are to be made subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the bishop, in keeping with the norms of the common law. 3) Wherever advantageous, ecclesiastical provinces should be grouped into ecclesiastical regions for the structure of which juridical provision is to be made.
  17. ↑ G. Feliciani (2005), "Il riordinamento delle diocesi in Italia da Pio XI a Giovanni Paolo II," in: L. Vaccaro (ed.), Storia della Chiesa in Europa tra ordinamento politico-amministrativo e strutture ecclesiastiche," Brescia 2005, pp. 283-300.
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  19. ↑ Bernardus: Ughelli IV, pp. 732-733. Gams, p. 821. Schwartz, p. 149. That Bernardus was Bishop of Savona is rejected by Paul Fridolin Kehr, p. 353.
  20. ↑ Joannes: Ughelli IV, p. 733 (a name, without any documentation). Cappelletti XIII, pp. 493-494, discusses the tenuous nature of the evidence. Verzellino, p. 162. Schwartz, p. 149.
  21. ↑ Ardemannus: Ughelli IV, pp. 733-735. Verzellino, pp. 163-164. Schwartz, p. 149.
  22. ↑ Antellinus or Ancellinus: Ughelli IV, p. 735 (a name, without any documentation). Bini (1842), p. 297. Verzellino, p. 164 (no documentation). Doubted by Schwartz, p. 149.
  23. ↑ Brixianus or Britianus: Ughelli IV, p. 735 (a name, without any documentation). Bini (1842), p. 297. Verzellino, p. 164 (no documentation). Doubted by Schwartz, p. 149.
  24. ↑ A grant of privileges by Bishop Amicus to the Canons of Savona is confirmed by Pope Gregory VII (1073–1085): Verzellino, p. 494 (1 November 1079). Kehr, p. 355, no. 1.
  25. ↑ Jordanus Adolus: Ughelli IV, p. 735 (a name, without any documentation). Doubted by Schwartz, p. 149.
  26. ↑ Gros(s)olanus was promoted to Milan before July 1102. His move from Savona to Milan was criticized by Pope Paschal II at the Roman synod of March 1116. J.-D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus 21 (Venice: A. Zatta 1776), p. 149. Schwartz, p. 149. Fedele Savio, Gli antichi vescovi d'Italia dalle origini al 1300 descritti per regioni: la Lombardia ... Milano (in Italian) (Firenze: Libreria editrice fiorentina, 1913), pp. 464, 471.
  27. ↑ Guglielmo: Ughelli IV, p. 735 (a name, without any documentation). Schwartz, p. 149.
  28. ↑ Bishop Ottaviano had previously been a Canon of Pavia: Ughelli, IV, p. 735. Filippo Noberasco, "Note e memorie sul Beato Ottaviano Vescovo di Savona (1123–1128)," in: Atti della Società savonense di storia patria Vol. 2 (Savona: D. Bertolotto 1919), pp. 95-121.
  29. ↑ Pope Alexander III addresses a mandate to Bishop Guido, ca. 1171–1181: Kehr, p. 354, no. 1.
  30. ↑ Pope Urban III addressed a mandate to Ambrosius between 1185 and 1187: Kehr, p. 354, no. 2.
  31. ↑ Bonifacius ruled for six years. Ughelli IV, p. 736.
  32. ↑ Guala: Ughelli IV, p. 736.
  33. ↑ Gams, p. 822. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 433.
  34. ↑ On 4 May 1221, Albertus, who had held a prebend in the Church of Savona, was still bishop-elect. Ughelli, p. 737. P. Pressuti, Regesta Honorii III papae, Vol. 1 (Romae: Ex typographia Vaticana 1888), p. 544, no. 3344. Eubel I, p. 433 with note 1.
  35. ↑ Bonifacius: Ughelli IV, p. 737 (but without documentary evidence).
  36. ↑ Conradus was still bishop-elect on 11 April 1255. Ughelli IV, p. 737-738. Verzellino, p. 496.
  37. ↑ Cappelletti XIII, p. 503, points out that Bishop Ruffinus was already dead by 1287, since the diocese was represented at the provincial synod of Milan in 1287 by the Vicar Capitular Anselmus.
  38. ↑ Following the death of Bishop Rufinus, a contested election was held by the Chapter, which produced two candidatess, Henricus de Ponzo and Vassallus, a canon of the collegiate church of S. Maria in Vineis in Genoa. The archbishop of Milan voided the election of Canon Vassallus and approved that of Henricus. Vassallus appealed to Pope Martin IV, who appointed Cardinal Ancher Pantaleone to judge the case. Pope Martin died on 28 March 1285, and Cardinal Ancher on 1 November 1286, without having rendered a judgment. The death of Bishop Rufinus and the beginning of the Sede vacante likely belong to the last months of 1284. Canon Vassallus died during the proceedings. Ernest Langlois, Les registres de Nicolas IV Tome 1 (Paris: Fontemoing 1905), p. 95, no. 508.
  39. ↑ Though Henricus de Ponzono was without a competitor once Canon Vassalus died, the trial continued. It had been alleged that Henricus was incontinent and a simoniac, and that he held several benefices with care of souls without papal dispensation. Since these charges could not be proved at the papal court, Pope Nicholas IV, who had assumed the papal throne on 22 February 1288, appointed two abbots and the Provost of the cathedral of Asti on 15 February 1289, to investigate the charges sent to them by Cardinal Benedetto Caetani, and, if nothing was proven against Henricus, to confirm him as bishop of Savona. Langlois, Les registres de Nicolas IV Tome 1, p. 95, no. 508. Eubel I, p. 433 with notes 3 and 4 (the date of 15 February 1289 is not the date of Henricus' appointment, which came after the investigation cleared his name). Bishop Henricus received a feudal oath on 20 August 1297: Verzellino, p. 497.
  40. ↑ Bishop Jacobus did not attend the provincial synod of Archbishop Castonus of Milan on 5 July 1311, but he sent a procurator instead. L.A. Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores Vol. 9 (Milan: typ. Societatis Palatinae 1726), p. 579.
  41. ↑ Cibo was elected bishop on 14 December 1316, and given his bulls by Pope John XXII on 4 March 1317. He was still not consecrated on 29 March 1318, when he received an extension of time, which was further extended on 20 April 1319. In both cases, the reason was that he had been appointed to the embassy to England of Cardinal Luca Fieschi. Ughelli IV, pp. 737-738. Cappelletti XIII, pp. 504-505. G. Mollat, Jean XXII. Lettres communes Vol. 2 (Paris: Fontemoing 1905), pp. 115 no. 6770; 366 no. 9297. Eubel I, p. 433 with note 5.
  42. ↑ Gerardus: Eubel, I, p. 433.
  43. ↑ Antonius Manfredi was appointed bishop of Savona on 27 November 1355 by Pope Innocent VI. He was named archbishop of Milan by Pope Gregory XI on 7 June 1376. He died in 1401. Eubel, I, pp. 333, 433.
  44. ↑ Urban VI had imposed a reservation on the appointment of the next bishop of Savona. De Viale was transferred from the diocese of Sisteron by Urban VI of the Roman Obedience on 21 November 1386; Sisteron adhered to the Avignon Obedience. The bull of appointment is transcribed by Verzellino. pp. 563-564, where the date is 12 (not 21) November. Bishop Antonio held a diocesan synod and published a set of constitutions (Verzellino, pp. 565-569). He died in 1394. Verzellino, p. 503, no. 109. Eubel, I, p. 434.
  45. ↑ Joannes Grimaldi was transferred to Savona from Senigallia by Boniface IX of the Roman Obedience. Eubel, I, p. 434 and p. 447.
  46. ↑ Philippus was appointed by Benedict XIII of the Avignon Obedience, and transferred to Damascus by John XXIII of the Avignon-Pisan Obedience. Eubel, I, p. 434.
  47. ↑ A native of Parma, Spinola was transferred to the diocese of Ales (Sardinia) on 11 July 1413, by Pope John XXIII. Eubel, I, pp. 434, 510.
  48. ↑ De Viali was appointed by John XXIII on 13 July 1413. He held a diocesan synod, in the episcopal palace, and issued constitutions, apparently reissuing some of Bishop Antonio di Viale of 26 August 1388. Verzellino, pp. 579-582; 596-600. Eubel, I, pp. 434.
  49. ↑ A native of Genoa, Calderini had been Bishop of Sagona (1348–1442). He was named bishop of Savona on 6 February 1442, by Pope Eugenius IV. On 5 November 1466, he was appointed bishop of Albenga by Pope Paul II. He died in January 1472. Eubel II, pp. 84, 127, 229.
  50. ↑ Cibo had been Provost of the cathedral of Genoa. On 5 November 1466, he was named bishop of Savona by Pope Paul II. He was appointed Bishop of Molfetta on 16 September 1472. He was elected Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. Eubel II, pp. 20, 189, 229.
  51. ↑ Bishop Gara held a diocesan synod on 28 January 1473. Verzellino, pp. 610-611.
  52. ↑ Cardinal della Rovere was already suburbicarian Bishop of Ostia. He was appointed Administrator of Vercelli on 24 January 1502. He was elected Pope Julius II in 1503. Eubel II, pp. 16 no. 2, 60, 229, 265.
  53. ↑ Galeozzo's letter of appointment as bishop of Savona by Pope Alexander VI, dated 24 January 1501. Verzellino, pp. 627-628.
  54. ↑ Jacobus de Ruvere was named Bishop of Mileto (1480–1504) by Pope Sixtus IV (Della Rovere), his uncle. He was appointed bishop of Savona on 6 March 1504 by Pope Julius II (Della Rovere). He died in 1510, allegedly "animi aeger" (mentally ill), because his demand for a cardinalate was refused by Pope Julius. Eubel II, p. 192; III, p. 291 with note 3.
  55. ↑ Raffaele Riario was a nephew of Pope Sixtus IV. He was named a cardinal by Pope Sixus in 1477. In 1508 he was named Bishop of Ostia, and on January 20 1511 he was appointed Cardinal Chamberlain. His appointment to Savona on 5 December 1511 was in the way of a benefice. He died in Rome on 9 July 1521. Ughelli IV, p. 472. Eubel III, pp. 3 no. 6; 291
  56. ↑ Tommaso had previously been Dean of the cathedral of Pisa. He was present at the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth sessions of the Fifth Lateran Council on 15 December 1515, 19 December 1516, and 16 March 1517. He died in 1528. J.-D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus 32 (Paris: H. Welter 1902), pp. 937, 941, 983. Eubel III, p. 291.
  57. ↑ Spinola was born in Savona, the nephew of Cardinal Pietro Riario. He had been a secretary of Pope Julius II. He accompanied Cardinal Raffaele Sansone Riario on his embassy to Spain, and on his return he became a protonotary apostolic participant. He was named a cardinal by Pope Clement VII in 1527, and on 8 June 1528 he was appointed Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Roman Church. He was appointed Administrator of the diocese of Savona on 17 July 1528, a position he held until his death in Rome on 18 October 1537. His Vicar General was Bartolomeo Chiabrera, JUD. He was buried in Savona. Verzellino, pp. 450-452. Eubel III, pp. 19 no. 2 with notes 1 and 2; 271 with note 3; 291-292.
  58. ↑ Giacomo Fieschi was appointed bishop of Savona by Pope Paul III on 22 October 1537, at the age of 20. He was therefore only Administrator of the diocese until his death in Rome in 1545. During his administration the cathedral was destroyed by the Genoese to make way for a wall and a fortress. Cappelletti XIII, pp. 507-508. Eubel III, p. 292 with note 4.
  59. ↑ Niccolò Fieschi was appointed by Pope Paul III at the age of 22, and was therefore only Administrator of the diocese until 1551. He was nuncio in Naples from September 1561 to December 1564. Eubel III, p. 292 with notes 5 and 6.
  60. ↑ Giovanni Ambrosio Fieschi was the brother of Niccolò Fieschi. Eubel III, p. 292 with note 7.
  61. ↑ Ferrero was appointed bishop of Savona by Pope Gregory XIII on 9 May 1576. Ferrero was appointed Bishop of Ivrea on 13 February 1581. He died in 1612. Eubel III, pp. 214, 292.
  62. ↑ A native of Genoa, Grimaldi had been a papal referendary. He was named bishop of Savona by Pope Gregory XIII on 13 February 1581. He was appointed Bishop of Cavaillon on 14 March 1584, and later became archbishop of Avignon. Eubel III, pp. 161, 292.
  63. ↑ A native of Genoa, Centurione had previously been Bishop of Mariana (Corsica). He was transferred to the diocese of Savona on 8 June 1584 by Pope Gregory XIII. He held a diocesan synod. Cappelletti XIII, p. 510. Eubel III, p. 292.
  64. ↑ Born in Albenga and educated in Rome, Costa was a Referendary (judge) of the Tribunal of the Two Signatures. He was appointed bishop of Savona on 27 July 1587. He promoted the construction of a new cathedral. He served as papal nuncio to Savoy from 1606 to 1624. He was transferred to the diocese of Albenga on 29 April 1624. He died on 14 March 1653. Eubel III, p. 292 with note 8. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 76.
  65. ↑ Francesco Spinola died on 8 August 1664. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 305 with note 2.
  66. ↑ Stefano Spinola: Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 305 with note 3.
  67. ↑ A native of Genoa, Durazzo had taught theology and been provost in several houses of the Theatine Order. He was named bishop of Savona by Pope Innocent XI in the consistory of 20 December 1683, and was consecrated in Rome by Cardinal Alessandro Crescenzio on 27 December. He died on 3 June 1722. Ritzler & Sefrin V, pp. 344 with note 3. Gian Luigi Bruzzone, Vincenzo Maria Durazzo, C.R. Vescovo di Savona: 1683-1722, (in Italian) Curia generalitia, 2011.
  68. ↑ Spinola was born in Genoa in 1677. He taught theology in houses of his Order (the Somaschi fathers). He became Provost of the church of Ss. Nicola e Biagio in Rome in 1719, and then Rector of the Collegio Clementina in 1714. He had previously been Bishop of Ajaccio in Corsica (1716–1722). He was appointed bishop of Savona on 23 September 1722. He died on 16 October 1755. Ritzler & Sefrin V, pp. 68 with note 7; 344 with note 4.
  69. ↑ Born in Genoa in 1700, Mari was Rector of the Collegio Clementina in Rome at the time of his appointment. He was consecrated on 21 December 1755 by Cardinal Giorgio Doria. Ritzler, VI, p. 367, with note 2.
  70. ↑ Gentile was a Doctor of theology (Sapienza 1776 [1766?]). He was a Consultor at the Office of the Holy Inquisition (1767). He was consecrated in Rome on 4 February 1776 by Cardinal Pallavicini. Ritzler, VI, p. 367, with note 3.
  71. ↑ Maggioli was transferred from Luni: Gams, p. 818 and p. 822. Bima (1842), p. 300
  72. ↑ On 5 July 1830, Airenti was transferred to the archdiocese of Genoa. Bima, p. 301. Semeria, pp. 247-249. Airenti died on 3 September 1831: Gams, p. 816.
  73. ↑ Bima, p. 301. Semeria, pp. 249-253.
  74. ↑ On 22 February 1867, Ricardi was transferred to the archbishopric of Turin by Pope Pius IX. Bima (1842), p. 301. Semeria, p. 253. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 334; VIII, p. 538.
  75. ↑ Gams, p. 823.
  76. ↑ Boraggini was a priest of the Diocese of Genoa. He had been Canon and Archpriest of the Cathedral of Genoa, and pro-Vicar-General of the diocese. David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy Diocese of Savona-Noli Retrieved: 2016-10-13.
  77. ↑ On 7 July 2007 Calcagno was appointed Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, and in 2011 became its President (2011–2018). He was named a cardinal in 2012, by Pope Benedict XVI.
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