Diocese Of Cagli

The diocese of Cagli e Pergola was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the Marche, central Italy, in the province of Pesaro and Urbino. Up until 1563 it was under the direct supervision of the Roman pontiff. In that year, the diocese of Urbino was elevated to metropolitan status, and Cagli became a suffragan see of Urbino. The diocese was abolished as an independent entity in 1986, when it was incorporated into the diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola. It was still a suffragan of the archdiocese of Urbino.

The historical diocese of Cagli was renamed in 1819. Pergola, which had been in the diocese of Urbino, was raised to the rank of an episcopal city and united to the See of Cagli.

History

Bishop Egidio (1243–59) had many controversies with the municipality of Gubbio. Under his successor the Ghibellines revolted against the papal power. After the death of Bishop Jacopo (1276), the Ghibelline canons wished to elect a noble, Berardo Berardi, while the Guelphs elected Rinaldo Sicardi, Abbot of San Pietro di Massa. As a result the see remained vacant for some years. Finally Berardo was made bishop of Osimo named it St. Angelo of the Pope (S. Angelo papale). Later on, however, the original name of Cagli was substituted.

In 1297 the first stone of the cathedral was laid by the Bishop Lituardo Cervati, and in 1398 Niccolò Marciari brought the building to completion. In 1503 the partisans of Cesare Borgia killed the Franciscan bishop Gasparo Golfi. His successor, a Spanish Dominican, Ludovico di Lagoria, was nearly killed by the people.

End of the diocese

In a decree of the Second Vatican Council, it was recommended that dioceses be reorganized to take into account modern developments. A project begun on orders from Pope John XXIII, and continued under his successors, was intended to reduce the number of dioceses in Italy and to rationalize their borders in terms of modern population changes and shortages of clergy. The change was made urgent because of changes made to the Concordat between the Italian State and the Holy See on 18 February 1984, and embodied in a law of 3 June 1985. The reorganization was approved by Pope John Paul II in an audience of 27 September 1986, and by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops of the Papal Curia on 30 September 1986. The diocese of Fano was united to the dioceses of Cagli e Pergola and of Fossombrone. Its name was to be ''Fanensis-Forosemproniensis-Calliensis-Pergulanus''. The seat of the diocese was to be in Fano. The former cathedral in Cagli and the former cathedral in Fossombrone were to have the honorary title of co-cathedral, and their chapters were to be called the "Capitulum Concathedralis". There was to be only one episcopal curia, one seminary, one ecclesiastical tribunal; and all the clergy were to be incardinated in the diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Caglia-Pergola. The combined diocese was suffragan of the Archdiocese of Urbino-Urbania-Sant'Angelo in Vado. The diocese of Cagli ceased to exist.

Bishops

Diocese of Cagli

''Erected: 4th Century''

''Latin Name: Calliensis''

''Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Urbino (from 1563)''

*Gratianus (ca. 359)
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*Viticianus (ca. 500)
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*Anastasius (ca. 731)
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*Rodulphus (ca. 761)
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*Luitulphus ( – 1045)
*Marcus (by 1050 – 1058)
*Hugo, O.S.B. (1059 – 1128)
*Quiricus (1128 – 1156)
* Ranerius, O.S.B (1156 – 1175)
*Allodericus (ca. 1175 – 1211)
*Anselmus (1217 – )
*Albertus (1229 – )
*Aegidius, O.S.B. (1233 – 1259)Gams, p. 678.
*Thomas Morandus, O.P. (1259 – 1265)
*Hugolinus Acquaviva (1266 – ca. 1269)
*Jacobus (1270 – 1276)

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*Giovanni Buono de Lutiis (3 November 1413 – 1429)
*Genesius da Parma (7 December 1429 – 1439)
*Antonio Severini (14 Dec 1439 - 15 Jul 1444 Appointed, Bishop of Gubbio)"Bishop Antonio Severini"
''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 7, 2016. Severini was a native of Urbino and had been Abbot Commendatory of Monte Nuovo. Cappelletti, p. 249.
*Simone Pauli (14 Oct 1444 - Oct 1460 Died)
*Bartolomeo Torelli, O.P. (23 Jul 1494 - 1496 Died)
*Gaspare Golfi, O.F.M. (5 May 1498 - 1503 Died)
*Ludovico de Lagoria, O.P. (8 Mar 1503 - 13 Feb 1504 Appointed, Bishop of Lavello)
*Bernardino de Leis, C.R.L. (23 Feb 1504 - 6 Jan 1506 Died)"Bishop Bernardino de Leis, C.R.L."
''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 7, 2016. De Lais had previously been Bishop of Lavello: Eubel, III, pp. 147 and 220.
* Antonio Castriani (Antonio Crastini), O.F.M. (17 Mar 1506 - 21 May 1507 Appointed, Bishop of Montefeltro