Diocese of Arezzo

Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro Dioecesis Arretinus-Cortonensis-Biturgensis seu Burgi Sancti Sepulchri
Arezzo Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Florence
Statistics
Area	3,425 km2 (1,322 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 305,000 290,000 (95.1%)
Parishes	244
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	3rd Century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di Ss. Donato e Pietro (Arezzo)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Cortona) Concattedrale di S. Giovanni Evangelista (Sansepolcro)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Riccardo Fontana
Map
Website
www.diocesiarezzo.it

The Italian Catholic diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro has existed since 1986. In that year the historic diocese of Arezzo was combined with the diocese of Cortona and the diocese of Sansepolcro, the enlarged diocese being suffragan of the archdiocese of Florence.

Arezzo was the see of a diocese in Tuscany, directly dependent on the Holy See. Tradition says it was converted by Saint Romulus, afterwards Bishop of Fiesole, a disciple of St. Paul.

It became a bishopric about 304, under Saint Satyrus. Saint Donatus, his successor, is patron of Arezzo Cathedral, also dedicated to Saint Peter the Apostle. The first eight bishops have become venerated as saints.

From 1023 to 1036 the bishop was Theodaldus, who invited Guido of Arezzo to train the cathedral singers of the plainchant. The humanist Gentile de' Becchi was bishop 1473-97.

Pope Clement XII, while his nephew Cardinal Guadagni was Bishop of Arezzo, conceded to it in perpetuo archiepiscopal insignia, the pallium and double cross.

Erected: 3rd Century
Latin Name: Arretinus
Immediately Subject to the Holy See

30 September 1986: United with the Diocese of Cortona and the Diocese of Sansepolcro
Latin Name: Arretinus-Cortonensis-Biturgensis seu Burgi Sancti Sepulchri
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Florence

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