Roman Catholic Suburbicarian Diocese Of Sabina–Poggio Mirteto
The Diocese of Sabina–Poggio Mirteto is a Latin suburbicarian see of the Holy Roman Church (which means it carries the rare rank of cardinal-bishop) and a diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy in the Roman province of the Pope. History Sabina has been the seat of such a bishopric since the 6th century, though the earliest names in the list of bishops may be apocryphal. The ancient cathedral of San Salvatore of Sabina was located in Forum Novum (Vescovio). The official papal province of Sabina was established under Pope Paul V in 1605. Since 1842 the Cardinal Bishop of Sabina has also borne the title of Territorial Abbot of Farfa. Since 1925, the cardinalitial suburbicarian see of Sabina has been united to that of Poggio Mirteto, and has been officially named Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, since 1986 Sabina–Poggio Mirteto. The current Cardinal-Bishop is Giovanni Battista Re, while the Ordinary of the Diocese is Bishop Ernesto Mandara. Cardinal-bishops of Sabina ...
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Poggio Mirteto
Poggio Mirteto is a ''comune'' (municipality) and former Catholic bishopric in Sabina in the Central Italian region Lazio (Latium). Administratively Poggio Mirteto is in the province of Rieti (formerly part of the province of Perugia) and geographically this municipality is about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti. According to Giuseppe Marocco's 1833 book the name Poggio Mirteto means the "knoll with plenty of Myrtus plants" because in its territory there would be plenty of Myrtus plants (called ''mirto'' in Italian, which is where the adjective ''mirteto'' comes from) and the old town was built on a knoll which in Italian is translated with the toponym Poggio. Poggio Mirteto's cathedral, formerly seat of its own bishops, became the episcopal see of the Bishop of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto. History A Roman villa called "Bagni di Lucilla" is nearby in the suburb of San Valentino. A famous mosaic discovered ther can be seen in the Va ...
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