Diocese of Montefiascone

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The Italian Catholic diocese of Montefiascone existed from 1369, when it was created from the diocese of Bagnorea, to 1986, when it was united into the diocese of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino.^[1]

[edit] History

Its first bishop was the French Augustinian Pierre d'Anguiscen (1376), a partisan of the antipope Clement VII. In 1435 the see was united with the diocese of Corneto, and so remained until, in 1854, Corneto became a part of the diocese of Civitavecchia.

Among its bishops were:

Alessandro Farnese (1499), later Pope Paul III;
the two brothers and cardinals Paolo Emilio Zacchia (1601) and Ludovico Zacchia (1605), both of whom did much for the building of the cathedral;
Cardinal Paluzio Albertoni Altieri (1666), founder of the seminary and restorer of the cathedral, which was damaged by a fire in 1670;
the scholar Cardinal M. Antonio Barbarigo (1687), who was transferred later to Padua, and who gave great assistance after the earthquake of 1695;
Cardinal Pompeo Aldobrandini (1734);
the scholar Giuseppe Garampi (1776), who gave its library to the seminary;
Cardinal Giovanni Sifredo Maury (1794).