The
Roman Catholic Diocese of
Sant’Angelo in Vado is a
suppressed diocese in Italy which is now part of the
Archdiocese of Urbino–Urbania–Sant’Angelo in Vado.
First Diocese
Around 450 a bishopric was established as the Diocese of
Sant’Angelo in Vado, in Latin ''Tifernum Metaurense''.
Only one bishop is known, Lucifer, who attended the Roman council held by
Pope Hilarius
Pope Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary; died 29 February 468) was the bishop of Rome from 461 to 468.
In 449, Hilarius served as a legate for Pope Leo I at the Second Council of Ephesus. His opposition to the condemnation of Flavian of Constantinopl ...
in 465.
In 590 it was suppressed, its territory being partitioned, a part being used to establish the
Diocese of Urbino and a part transferred to the pre-existent
Diocese of Città di Castello.
Second Diocese
On 2 August 1635 it was restored as Diocese of Sant’Angelo in Vado (Latin Tifernum Metaurense), regaining territory from the
Abbacy nullius of
San Cristoforo di Castel Durante, but was immediately and invariably held in
personal union
A personal union is a combination of two or more monarchical states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct. A real union, by contrast, involves the constituent states being to some extent in ...
(''United aeque principaliter'') with the
Diocese of Urbania (1635–1986). On 20 October 1636, in the bull "Cum nuper",
Pope Urban VIII
Pope Urban VIII (; ; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal terri ...
granted the diocese additional territory, taken from the Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Urbino
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated ...
.
Suppression
On 30 September 1986 it was suppressed, its territory being merged into the accordingly renamed Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Urbino–Urbania–Sant’Angelo in Vado (which thus absorbed and preserved its title), without having had a single proper bishop other than the incumbents of the Urbania see.
References
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