Canale Monterano

Canale Monterano
Comune
Comune di Canale Monterano
Roman aqueduct in Monterano.
Coat of arms
Canale Monterano Location of Canale Monterano in Italy
Coordinates: 42°8′N 12°6′E / 42.133°N 12.100°E / 42.133; 12.100
Country	Italy
Region	Latium
Province / Metropolitan city	Rome (RM)
Frazioni	La Piana, Montevirginio
Government
• Mayor	Angelo Stefani
Area
• Total	36.9 km2 (14.2 sq mi)
Elevation	378 m (1,240 ft)
Population (31 December 2014)
• Total	4,246
• Density	120/km2 (300/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Canalesi
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	00060
Dialing code	06
Patron saint	St. Bartholomew
Saint day	August 24

Canale Monterano is a comune (municipality), former bishopric and Latin titular see in the Metropolitan City of Rome, in the central Italian region of Lazio (Ancient Latium).

Canale Monterano, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Rome, borders the following municipalities : Blera, Manziana, Oriolo Romano, Tolfa and Vejano.

The nearby Diocese of Forum Clodii, established circa 300 in Ancient Forum Clodii, a Roman municipium sice the late IIIth century, was a mansion on the Via Claudia on the west bank of lake Bracciano, nowadays the tenuta di San Liberato in the commune of Bracciano. It was a bishopric at least since the 4th century, but Lanzoni starts the apostolic succession with martyr Alexander, buried at nearby Baccano (20th mile of the Via Claudia).

Plausibly due to the Longobard incursions, when the town of Forum Clodii was erased during the sixth century, the bishopric was renamed circa 600 as Diocese of Monterano in Curiate Italian (but still Forum Clodii alongside Middle Latin Manturanum) after its new, easier-defended see.

Its Ancient cathedral, in Monterano, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, is a mere ruin.

In 900 it was suppressed, its canonical territory being merged into the Diocese of Sutri, which was itself merged in 1435 into the Diocese of Nepi e Sutri, and this ultimately into the Diocese of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia.