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Bishop of Belluno

Diocese of Belluno-Feltre
Dioecesis Bellunensis-Feltrensis
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Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Venice
Statistics
Area 3,263 km2 (1,260 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2012)
187,385
187,300 (100.0%)
Parishes 158
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 2nd Century
Cathedral Basilica Cattedrale di S. Martino (Belluno)
Co-cathedral Concattedrale di S. Pietro Apostolo (Feltre)
Secular priests 200
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Renato Marangoni
Map
Roman Catholic Diocese of Belluno-Feltre in Italy.svg
Website
www2.diocesi.it/bellunofeltre

The Diocese of Belluno-Feltre (Latin: Dioecesis Bellunensis-Feltrensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the Veneto, northern Italy, created in 1986. The historic Diocese of Belluno and Diocese of Feltre were united under the name diocese of Belluno e Feltre in 1818. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Venice.

At the end of the 10th century Belluno was affected by the political disturbances then agitating the Venetian provinces. Bishop Joannes II (959) obtained from Emperor Otto I for himself and his successors the title of count and temporal sovereignty over the city and the surrounding territory. He also fortified the city.

Christianity is said to have been first preached there by St. Hermagoras, a disciple of St. Mark and first Bishop of Aquileia, and next by Prosdocimus, first Bishop of Padua. Ferdinando Ughelli places the first bishop, Theodorus, in the reign of Emperor Commodus and the second, St. Salvator, as succeeding under Pertinax. About 300 another Theodorus is thought to have brought from Egypt the remains of St. Giovata, patron of the city.

The first bishop known to history is a certain Laurentius. In 587, he attended the schismatic assembly convened by Severus, Patriarch of Aquileia, in connection with the schism of the Three Chapters.


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