Diocese of Città di Castello
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Diocese of Città di Castello Dioecesis Civitatis Castelli o Tifernatensis |
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Città di Castello Cathedral
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| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Perugia-Città della Pieve |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 820 km2 (320 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2006) 60,060 58,900 (98.1%) |
| Parishes | 60 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 7th century |
| Cathedral | Basilica Cattedrale di Ss. Florido e Amanzio |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Domenico Cancian, F.A.M. |
| Emeritus Bishops | Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, O.F.M. Cap. |
| Website | |
| www.webdiocesi.chiesacattolica.it | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Città di Castello (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Castelli o Tifernatensis) is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve, in the central Italian region of Umbria.
Its cathedral episcopal see is a Minor basilica: Basilica Cattedrale di Ss. Florido e Amanzio Basilica, dedicated to Saints Floridus (the diocesan patron saint) and Amantius, in Città di Castello. The province and diocese have a Marian second Minor Basilica: Santuario-Basilica della Madonna del Transito Santuario, in Canoscio.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 62,600 Catholics (96.9% of 64,600 total) on 820 km² in 60 parishes and 10 missions with 69 priests (51 diocesan, 18 religious), 11 deacons, 153 lay religious (21 brothers, 132 sisters) and 4 seminarians.
During the persecution of Diocletian, St. Crescentianus, a Roman knight, and ten others suffered martyrdom at Tifernum. The bishopric was erected circa 450 AD. The first-known bishop of this see was Ennodius, present at a Roman council (465) under Pope Hilary. In 550, Fantalogus, by order of the Ostrogothic king Totila, took and destroyed the city then known as Tifernum or Civitas Tiberina. Città di Castello was later rebuilt around a castle, giving origin to the name used today. At the time of the sack of the city by Fantalogus, the bishop was Florius, later a friend of Gregory the Great.
In 711 Arian Longobards put to death the bishop of the city, Albertus, and his deacon Britius.
In 590 it gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Sant'Angelo in Vado.
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