The Diocese of Albano ( la, Albanensis) is a suburbicarian see of the

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in a

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, comprising seven towns in the

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Albano Laziale Albano Laziale (; it, label= Romanesco, Arbano; la, Albanum) is a ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Rome, on the Alban Hills, in Latium, central Italy. Rome is distant. It is bounded by other communes of Castel Gandolfo, Rocca di Papa ...

is situated some 15 kilometers from Rome, on the

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. Under current arrangements it has both a

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and a diocesan bishop.

Early history

The city of Albano, located at the fifteenth milestone from Rome on the Via Appia Antiqua, and two miles from the ancient Alba Longa. A villa of Pompey the Great and a villa of the Emperor Domitian were located in the area. had an amphitheater by the second half of the first century A.D. In 197, the Emperor

Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa (Roman province), Africa. As a young man he advanced thro ...

created the

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, whose headquarters was at the Castra Albana, until they were disbanded by the

Emperor Constantine Constantine I ( , ; la, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, ; ; 27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337, the first one to convert to Christianity. Born in Naissus, Dacia Mediterranea ...

(306–337). According to the ''

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'' the Emperor Constantine I provided the city with a new basilica, that of Saint John the Baptist: :''fecit basilicam Augustus Constantinus in civitate Albanensis, videlicet S. Joannis Baptistae''. He also presented the church with various vessels of silver and silver gilt, and endowed the church with a number of local properties, including the farm of Mola (a mile west of the town), possession of the lake of Albano, the Massa Mucii, all the abandoned houses in Albano, possession of gardens, and other properties. This Constantinian basilica was destroyed by fire toward the end of the 8th century, or at the beginning of the 9th, along with the bishop's residence. Ferdinando Franconi has established the identity of this basilica with the present

Albano Cathedral Albano Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Albano, ''Cattedrale di San Pancrazio'') is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Albano Laziale, in the province of Rome and the region of Lazio, Italy. It is the seat of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano. Th ...

, which still contains some remains of the edifice dedicated by

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to Saint Pancras. The cathedral was restored in 1563, and again at the beginning of the 19th century. Under the basilica there was a

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, or ''confessio'', from which bodies were transferred to the cemetery nearby. The cathedral is administered by a Chapter consisting of two dignities, the Archpriest and the Archdeacon, and eight Canons. The foundation of the episcopal see of Albano may be contemporaneous with the erection of the Constantinian basilica.It is alleged that the first bishop of the see of whom we have any knowledge is Dionysius (d. 355). Bishop Ursinus is found on an inscription in the

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; the consular date is either 345 or 395. It is in the next century (463), however, that we meet with a Bishop of Albano, Romanus.

Catacombs

The importance of this early Christian community is apparent from its cemetery, discovered in 1720 by Giovanni Marangoni. It differs but little from the Christian cemeteries found in Rome. Its plan, clearly mapped out in the ''Epitome de locis ss. martyrum quae sunt foris civitatis Romae'', is considered by

Giovanni Battista de Rossi Giovanni Battista (Carlo) de Rossi (23 February 1822 – 20 September 1894) was an Italian archaeologist, famous even outside his field for rediscovering early Christian catacombs. Life and works Born in Rome, he was the son of Commendatore Cam ...

as the synopsis of an ancient description of the cemeteries, written before the end of the 6th century: :''per eandem vere viam (Appiam) pervenitur ad Albanam civitatem et per eandem civitatem ad ecclesiam S. Senatoris ubi et Perpetua jacet corpore et innumeri sancti et magna mirabilia ibidem geruntur.'' Saint Senator of Albano is inserted in the martyrology for 26 September (''et in Albano Senatoris''), without further specification. From this he passed to the ''

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'', where he is commemorated on the same day. But the first account of the martyrs of Albano is found in the ''

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'' (4th century) on 8 August: :''VI Idus aug. Carpophori, Victorini et Severiani, Albano, et Ostense septimo ballistaria, Cyriaci, Largi, Crescentiani, Memmiae, Julianae, et Smaragdi.'' The cemetery has frescoes, painted at various times by unknown artists, which show the various expressions of Christian funerary art from the fourth to the 9th century. Pope Innocent I was a native of Albano.

Later history

In the mid-19th century, the diocese of Albano contained only about 8,000 persons. It included ten ''castelli'': Sabello, Riccia, Genzano, Cività-Lavinia, Nemi, Marino, Castelgandolfo, Pratica, Ardea, and Nettuno. At the end of the century, it contained about 44,000 inhabitants, served by 60 secular priests and 124 priests of religious orders, and there were twelve parishes. The diocese had 67 churches, chapels, or oratories. There were three collegiate churches, with colleges of Canons, at Ariccia, Civita-Lavinia, and Nemi. By the beginning of the 20th century, it had become apparent to the papacy that the suburbicarian bishops had become overburdened with the responsibilities of their curial and diocesan duties. The increase in commerce, in roads and travel, and the migration of people to the city, as well as the increased burden of duties in the papal administration because of the mass and complexity of problems affecting the Church, made some sort of relief necessary. On his own initiative, therefore,

Pope Pius X Pope Pius X ( it, Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of C ...

issued a decree, ''Apostolicae Romanorum Pontificium'', granting the bishops of Ostia, Porto, Albano, Palestrina, and Frascati each a suffragan bishop to carry the burden of their pastoral duties in their dioceses. The pope appointed the suffragans, who had full powers inside the diocese, subject to the cardinal's approval, but not the power to ordain or consecrate, or the right to have a throne or display their coat-of-arms. Further details were added by

Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 19 ...

in his apostolic letter, ''Suburbicariis sedibus'', defining the suffragan bishop as "Episcopus Ordinarius", with the same powers as other residential bishops, and enumerating the privileges of the cardinal bishop. In 1914, Pius X took steps to regulate the irregularities in the incomes of the six cardinal suburbicarian bishops. On is own initiative, after consulting with the curial cardinals and with their agreement, he issued the decree ''Edita a Nobis'', in which he ordered that in the future the incomes of the cardinal bishops should be placed in a single fund, administered by the Office of Economic Affairs, to which each cardinal must render an annual account. Each year, after 6,000 Lire was to be given to each suffragan bishop, the remaining money collected was to be divided into equal portions, the bishop of Ostia to receive two portions, and each of the other bishops one portion. The decree also ordered that the bishop of Ostia, when promoted to that position, should also retain his previous bishopric; the diocese of Velitrae was to be removed from his jurisdiction, and from that point the suburbicarin bishops would be: Ostiensis, Portuensis et Sanctae Rufinae, Albanensis, Praenestina, Sabinensis, Tusculana, Veliterna.

List of bishops

to 1000

* Ursinus (395) * Romanus (attested 465) * Athanasius (attested 487) * Chrysogonus (attested 495–502) * Homobonus (attested 592–601) * Epiphanius (attested 649) * Juvenalis (649–682) * Andreas (721 – before 743) * Tiberius (743–761) * Leo (I) (761 – before 767) * Eustratius (Eustathius) (761–769) * Constantius (772 – before 826) * Benedictus (826 – before 844) * Petronacio (853 – ca. 867) * Paul (869 – before 898) * Petrus (I) (898–?) * Gregorius (963–985) * Teobaldo (995–996) * Joannes (996–1001)

1000–1200

* Pietro Martino Boccapecora, (1004–1009), afterwards Pope Sergius IV (1009–12) * Teobaldus (attested 1044) * Bonifatius (1049–1068) : asilios* Peter Igneus, (1072–1089) * Gualterius (1091–1100) * Theodoricus (before 1098 – 1100), later

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1200–1400

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References

Books and articles

* *Brixius, Johannes M. ''Die Mitglieder des Kardinalskollegiums von 1130-1181'', Berlin 1912. *De Rossi, ''Le catacombe di Albano'', in Bull. di arch. Crist. (1869). * *Fraikin, J. "Albano," ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques'' fascicule I (Paris: Letouzey 1909), pp. 1373-1379. * *Gauchat, Patritius (1935). ''Hierarchia catholica'
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(IV) Münster. * *Hüls, Rudolf. ''Kardinäle, Klerus und Kirchen Roms: 1049–1130'', Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom 1977. *Jozzi, Oliverio (1901). ''Series pontificum Albanorum''. Roma 1901. * *Klewitz, Hans-Walter. ''Reformpapsttum und Kardinalkolleg'' , Darmstadt 1957. *Leclercq, "Albano (catacombe d')," in ''Dictionnaire d'archeologie Chretienne et de littterature'' (Paris, 1904). * *Maleczek, Werner. ''Papst und Kardinalskolleg von 1191 bis 1216'', Vienna 1984. * Marucchi, Orazio "Di alcune inscrizioni recentement trovate e ricomposte nel cimitero di Domitilla," in ''Nuovo bull. di arch. crist.'' (1899), p. 24. * * * (in Latin) * (in Latin) * *Volpi,'' Latium Vetus, Profanum et Sacrum'' (Rome, 1726). *Zenker, Barbara. ''Die Mitglieder des Kardinalkollegiums von 1130 bis 1159'', Würzburg 1964.

External links

Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano Official Website

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