Zuglio ( fur, Zui) is a ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' (municipality), former bishopric and Latin Catholic

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in the

Province of Udine The province of Udine ( it, provincia di Udine, fur, provincie di Udin, sl, videmska pokrajina, Resian dialect, Resian: , german: Provinz Weiden) was a Provinces of Italy, province in the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia of Italy, borderi ...

in the northeastern

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autonomous region

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, located about northwest of

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

and about northwest of

Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...

in the Val Bût. Its territory includes the ''

Pieve In the Middle Ages, a pieve (, ; la, plebe, link=no; plural ''pievi'') was a rural church with a baptistery, upon which other churches without baptisteries depended. The Italian word ''pieve'' is descended from Latin ''plebs'' which, after th ...

of San Pietro in

Carnia Carnia ( fur, Cjargne or ''Cjargna''/''Cjargno'' in local variants, vec, Ciargna, german: Karnien, sl, Karnija) is a historical-geographic region in the northeastern Italian area of Friuli. Its 27 municipalities all belong to the Province of Ud ...

'', one of the oldest churches in

Friuli Friuli ( fur, Friûl, sl, Furlanija, german: Friaul) is an area of Northeast Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity containing 1,000,000 Friulians. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli Venezia Giulia ...

. Zuglio is also home to an archaeological museum including remains from the old Roman town (''Iulium Carnicum'') and the whole Carnia.

Ecclesiastical history

* The Diocese of Zuglio (Italian) or Iulium Carnicum (in Latin) was established in 380 AD (or later according to the source) on territory -originally

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and

- split off from the then Diocese of Aquileia and became its

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at its elevation to (metropolitan)

Patriarchate of Aquileia The Patriarchate of Aquileia was an episcopal see in northeastern Italy, centred on the ancient city of Aquileia situated at the head of the Adriatic, on what is now the Italian seacoast. For many centuries it played an important part in histor ...

in 560. The strategic position on the Iulia Augusta (connecting Aquileia, by Monte Croce Carnico, to

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) brought wealth and extended jurisdiction * The barbaric invasions made the inhabitants flee the city, first probably translating their basilica and episcopal see up to San Pietro mount but abandoning Zuglio in 705 after a terrible raid by the Avars. The

Longobard The Lombards () or Langobards ( la, Langobardi) were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774. The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ''History of the Lombards'' (written between 787 and ...

historian

Paulus Diaconus Paul the Deacon ( 720s 13 April in 796, 797, 798, or 799 AD), also known as ''Paulus Diaconus'', ''Warnefridus'', ''Barnefridus'', or ''Winfridus'', and sometimes suffixed ''Cassinensis'' (''i.e.'' "of Monte Cassino"), was a Benedictine monk, sc ...

notes that bishop Fidentius transferred his see to

Cividale Cividale del Friuli ( fur, Cividât (locally ); german: Östrich; sl, Čedad) is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Udine, part of the Northern Italy, North-Italian Friuli Venezia Giulia ''regione''. The town lies above sea-level in the foo ...

but his successor, Amatore, was chased there to in 737 by Patriarch Callixtus of Aquileia, who made Cividale his patriarchal see. * It was suppressed in 740 at bishop Amatore's death, its territory being merged into the

, but retained the right to a

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until the Napoleonic era. Its former Cathedral, S. Pietro in Carnia, in Zuglio, was not granted co-cathedral status. Carnia ended up in the

Archdiocese of Udine The Archdiocese of Udine ( la, Archidioecesis Utinensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Italy. The see was established in 1751 when the Patriarchal see of Aquileia was divided. From 1818 to 1 ...

, Cadore went in 1846 to the

Diocese of Belluno The Diocese of Belluno-Feltre ( la, Dioecesis Bellunensis-Feltrensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the Veneto, northern Italy, organized in its current form in 1986. From 1197 to 1762, and again from 1818 to 1986, the Diocese of ...

Residential Ordinaries

;''Suffragan Bishops of Zuglio'' (

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) (incomplete) * Amantius = Amanzio(393 – death 413) * ... * Januarius = Ianuario (480 – death 490) * ... * Maxentius = Massensio (571? – 591?) Various traditional authors, following ''Italia sacra'' by Ferdinando Ughelli, list him (also named Maximus) as bishop of the Croatian Diocese of Pola * ... * Fidenzio = Fidentius (705? – ?) * Amator(e) (737? – death ?740).

Titular see

In 1967 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Catholic

Titular bishopric 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 ...

of Zuglio (Italian) alias Iulium Carnicum. It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank or the higher archiepiscopal (intermediary) rank: * Titular Bishop Aldo Gobbi (1967.04.22 – death 1973.11.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of

Diocese of Imola The Roman Catholic Diocese of Imola ( la, Diocesis Imolensis) is a territory in Romagna, northern Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bologna.

(Italy) (1967.04.22 – 1973.11.29) * Titular Bishop Emilio Pizzoni (1974.03.21 – resigned 1985.08.01) as Auxiliary Bishop of

(Italy) (1966.09.06 – retired 1985.08.01), died 1994; previously Bishop of

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(Italy) (1951.03.27 – 1966.09.06), Bishop of

Priverno Priverno is a town, ''comune'' in the province of Latina, Lazio, central Italy. It was called ''Piperno'' until 1927. It has a station of the Rome-Naples railway mainline. Nearby is the Monti Lepini chain. It was the birthplace of the canonist Regi ...

(Italy) (1951.03.27 – 1966.09.06), Bishop of Sezze (Italy) (1951.03.27 – 1966.09.06), Titular Bishop of

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(1966.09.06 – 1974.03.21) * Titular Bishop Pietro Brollo (1985.10.21 – 1996.01.02) as Auxiliary Bishop of

(Italy) (1985.10.21 – 1996.01.02); later Bishop of Belluno–Feltre (Italy) (1996.01.02 – 2000.10.28), Metropolitan Archbishop of above Udine (Italy) (2000.10.28 – death 2009.08.20) * Titular Bishop Alfred Kipkoech Arap Rotich (1996.03.09 – 1997.08.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Nairobi (

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) (1996.03.09 – 1997.08.29); next

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Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

(Kenya) (1997.08.29 – retired 2016.12.30) *Titular Archbishop Cardinal Mario Zenari (1999.07.12 – 2016.11.19), as papal diplomat:

Apostolic Nuncio An apostolic nuncio ( la, nuntius apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international org ...

(ambassador) to Burkina Faso (1999.07.24 – 2004.05.10), Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka (2004.05.10 – 2008.12.30), Apostolic Nuncio to Syria (2008.12.30 – ...); next created

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of S. Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri (2016.11.19 017.03.25– ...) * Titular Bishop Pedro Sergio de Jesús Mena Díaz (2017.05.27 – ...),

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as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Yucatán (Mexico) (2017.05.27 – ...).

Twin towns

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, Austria

References

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