Diocese of Alba

Diocese of Alba Dioecesis Albae Pompeiensis
Alba Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Turin
Statistics
Area	1,050 km2 (410 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 130,800 125,700 (96.1%)
Parishes	126
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	4th century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Lorenzo
Secular priests	143
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Marco Brunetti
Emeritus Bishops	Sebastiano Dho
Map
Website
www.diocesidialba.it

The Italian Catholic Diocese of Alba Pompeia or Alba Pompea (Latin: Dioecesis Albae Pompeiensis) comprises eighty towns in the civil Province of Cuneo and two in the Province of Asti.

It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Turin.

Heading the list of the bishops of Alba is a St. Dionysius, of whom we are told that after serving there for some years he became Archbishop of Milan. He was the Dionysius who so energetically opposed Arianism and was exiled in the year 355 by the Emperor Constans. Papebroch disputes the reliability of this tradition, since a bishop of that period was forbidden to leave his diocese for another. A list of nine early bishops of Alba, from another St. Dionysius (380) down to a Bishop Julius (553), was compiled from sepulchral inscriptions found in the cathedral of alba towards the end of the fifteenth century by Dalmazzo Berendenco, an antiquarian. Giovanni Battista De Rossi, however, on examination proved it a forgery.

The first bishop of Alba of whose existence we are certain is Lampradius who was present at the synod held in Rome in 499 under Pope Symmachus. In the series of bishops, Benzo of Alba is notable as an adversary of Pope Gregory VII and a partisan of the Empire in the struggle of the Investitures.

Erected: 4th Century
Latin Name: Albae Pompeiensis

1803 Jun 01: Suppressed to the Diocese of Asti
1817 July 17: Restored as Diocese of Alba
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Turin

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