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Diocese of Cuneo ( la, Dioecesis Cuneensis) was created in 1817, from territory that previously had belonged to the Diocese of Mondovì. It is

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of the Archdiocese of Turin. The first bishop of Cuneo was Bruno di Samone. The city of

Cuneo Cuneo (; pms, Coni ; oc, Coni/Couni ; french: Coni ) is a city and ''comune'' in Piedmont, Northern Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the fourth largest of Italy’s provinces by area. It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) in ...

is a provincial capital, the metropolis of the civil

Province of Cuneo Cuneo (Italian), or Coni (Piedmontese), is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west it borders on the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ( departments of Alpes-Maritimes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Haut ...

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and covered 1,566 square kilometers (604 Square Miles).

History

During the French occupation, religious orders were dissolved or expelled, and convents and monasteries closed and confiscated by the government. In Cuneo this included two monasteries and the convent of the Capuchins. The monastery of S. Annunziata became a hospice for the poor and an orphanage, and the monastery of the Terziarie became first a prison and then a warehouse for salt and a military barracks. Following the

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between Bonaparte and

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, the French demanded a reduction in the number of dioceses in Piedmont and their conformity to rules established by the French government. The Pope was compelled to issue a bull, ''Gravissimis causis'' (1 June 1803), in which the number of dioceses in Piedmont was reduced to eight: Turin, Vercelli, Ivrea, Acqui, Asti, Mondovi, Alessandria and Saluzzo. This, and the appointment of bishops by Napoleon, caused great confusion, and once Bonaparte had been compelled to abdicate, and the Kingdom of Sardina was returned to the House of Savoy, a revision of the ecclesiastical situation was essential. The revision was carried out in 1817 by Pope Pius VII in his bull, ''Beati Petri'' (17 July 1817). The new diocese of Cuneo was created as diocesan borders were redrawn.

Cathedral

Before the creation of the diocese, the largest church in the city was the Collegiate Church of S. Maria del Bosco, presided over by a Chapter, consisting of three dignities and fifteen Canons. The church, whose existence is attested as far back as 1446, was severely damaged in the siege of 1744, and was rebuilt through the generosity of King

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. The Chapter was suppressed by the papal bull of 1817. The Chapter of the Cathedral of S. Maria del Bosco consisted of three dignities (Prior, Archpriest, and Provost) and fifteen Canons, one of whom was the Canon Theologus and another the Penitentiary. By 1844 there was a sixteenth Canon. In 1835 a major outbreak of "asiatic cholera" struck the Ligurian coast, and reached Cuneo in July of that year. Bishop Bruno engaged in heroic relief works. Restored or newly imported religious communities included: Suore del Cottolengo (1836), Suore della Carità (1843), Compagnia di S. Orsola (1866), Figlie di S. Chiara (1870), Petites Soeurs des Pauvres (1883-1983), PR Gesuiti (1888), Suore di S. Vincenzo (1899), Figli della Divina Provvidenza di Don Orione (1907-1997), Figlie di S. Giuseppe - Suore Ostiarie (1900), PE Salesiani (1928), Suore della Misericordia di Savona (1937), Figlie di M. Ausiliatrice (1937), Figlie del Cuore di Maria (1945), Suore di S. Marta (1948), Suore della S. Famiglia di Savigliano (1952), Suore Francescane (1954-1975). Currently at work in the diocese are a large number of institutes of religion. Seminarians of the diocese of Cuneo are sent to the Seminario Interdiocesano in Fossano.

Bishops of Cuneo

list of bishops of Cuneo is provided by the Diocese of Cuneo # Amedeo Bruno di Samone (1817-1838) # Giuseppe Agostino Salomoni, C.M. (1840-1843) # Clemente (da Santa Teresa) Manzini,

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(1844-1865) # Andrea Formica (1844-1865) # Teodoro Valfrè di Bonzo (1885-1895) # Andrea Fiore (1895-1914) # Gabriele Natale Moriondo, O.P. (1914-1920) # Giuseppe Castelli (1920-1924) # Quirico Travaini (1926-1934) # Giacomo Rosso (1934-1957) # Guido Tonetti (1957-1971) # Carlo Aliprandi (1971-1999) # Natalino Pescarolo (1999-2005) # Giuseppe Cavallotto (2005-2015) # Piero Delbosco (2005-present)

Parishes

The diocese has 82 parishes, all within the

in the (civil) region of

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(Retrieved:2008-03-11)

Contact Information

* Official Web Site
diocesicuneofossano.it
* Mailing Address: Via Amedeo Rossi 28, 12100 Cuneo, Italia

References

Bibliography

* * pp. . (in Latin) *Gazzola, Gian Michele (ed.) (1992). ''Il Duomo di Cuneo. Santa Maria del Bosco da priorato benedettino a Cattedrale.'' Cuneo: Primalpe Edizioni 1992. * Gazzola, Gian Michele (ed.) (1998). ''Cuneo: una Diocesi e una città. Atlante storico-artistico delle istituzioni ecclesiali nel territorio del Comune di Cuneo''. Cuneo: Ed. Diocesi di Cuneo, 1998. * * * *

External links

*Benigni, Umberto
"Diocese of Cuneo."
''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. Retrieved: 26 Mar. 2018. {{authority control

Province of Cuneo Cuneo

1817 establishments in Italy