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The Diocese of Luni was a
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
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*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
bishopric with its seat in
Luni,
Liguria
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, northwestern Italy. The bishop and cathedral chapter moved to
Sarzana
Sarzana (, ; lij, Sarzann-a) is a town, '' comune'' (municipality) and former short-lived Catholic bishopric in the Province of La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. It is east of Spezia, on the railway to Pisa, at the point where the railway to Parm ...
in the 12th century; the move was formalised in 1201. Though the bishops of Luni had been resident at Sarzana long before the official transfer of the cathedral, the diocese and bishop continued to use the name of Luni in their titles down to 1465, when the name of Sarzana was added to both.
The name of the former diocese was revived in 1976 to designate a
titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
.
See also
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Roman Catholic Diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato
The Diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato ( la, Dioecesis Spediensis-Sarzanensis-Brugnatensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Liguria, northern Italy, created in 1929. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Genoa.
The historic ...
(list of Bishops of Luni)
References
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Bibliography
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* (in Latin)
* pp. 817–818. (Use with caution; obsolete)
*Gentile, Michele Lupo (1912)
''Il Regesto del Codice Pelavicino''in: Atti della Società ligure di storia patria, Vol. XLIV (Genova 1912).
*Kehr, Paul Fridolin (1914).
Italia pontificia: sive, Repertorium privilegiorum et litterarum a romanis pontificibus ante annum 1598 Italiae ecclesiis, monasteriis, civitatibus singulisque personis concessorum.'' Vol. VI. pars ii. Berolini: Weidmann. pp. 373–392. (in Latin)
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I, pp. 2–156; 156-159; 159-184*
uni and Sarzana
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Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Italy
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