Diocese of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello Dioecesis Pitilianensis-Soanensis-Urbetelliensis | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 2,177 km2 (841 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2021) 67,800 (est.) 66,500 (guess) |
| Parishes | 71 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 7th century |
| Cathedral | Cattedrale di SS. Pietro e Paolo (Pitigliano) |
| Co-cathedral | Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Orbetello) Former cathedral: Former cattedrale di SS. Pietro e Paolo (Sovana) |
| Secular priests | 46 (diocesan) 11 (Religious orders) 10 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Giovanni Roncari, O.F.M. Cap. |
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| Website | |
| www.diocesipitigliano.it | |
The Diocese of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello (Latin: Dioecesis Pitilianensis-Soanensis-Urbetelliensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino, in Tuscany.[1][2] The diocese of Sovana had originally been directly dependent upon the Holy See, and its bishops attended the pope's synods. When Pope Pius II, who was a Piccolomini of Siena, created the metropolitan archdiocese of Siena, he made Sovana one of its suffragan dioceses.[3] The bishops of Sovana usually resided in the former palace of the Orsini in Pitigliano, which was given to Bishop Francesco Pio Santi (1776–1789) by the Grand Duke of Tuscany.[4]
The bishop has his seat in the Cattedrale di Ss. Pietro e Paolo, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, in Pitigliano, a part of the province of Grosseto; the municipality of Sovana (Soana) in Toscana also has a Co-Cathedral named in honour of Saint Peter. Orbetello has the Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (S. Biagio), dedicated to the Assumption and St. Biagio.
- ^ "Diocese of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved 4 December 2015.[self-published source]
- ^ "Diocese of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016.[self-published source]
- ^ Ughelli III, p. 734.
- ^ G. C. Fabriziani (1897). I conti Aldobrandeschi e Orsini: sunti storici con note topografiche (in Italian). Pitigliano: O. Paggi. pp. 83–84.