Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondovì

Diocese of Mondovì Dioecesis Montis Regalis in Pedemonte o Montis Vici
Ceiling in Mondovì Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Turin
Statistics
Area	2,189 km2 (845 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 119,000 116,000 (97.5%)
Parishes	192
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	5 June 1388
Cathedral	Mondovì Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Donato)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Luciano Pacomio
Map
Website
www.diocesimondovi.it

The Italian Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondovì (Latin: Dioecesis Montis Regalis in Pedemonte o Montis Vici) is a Catholic diocese in the Ecclesiastical Region of Piedmont. Its 192 parishes are divided between the Province of Savona in the (civil) region Liguria and the Province of Cuneo in the (civil) region Piedmont. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Turin.

The town, then called Monsvici or Monteregale, was under the bishop of Asti. until 1198, when it established itself as a commune. The first bishop of Mondovì was Damiano Zavaglia; among his successors were Percivallo di Palma (1429), Amadeo Romagnano (1497), who reconstructed the cathedral (1550); Michele Ghislieri, O.P. (1550), later Pope Pius V; Cardinal Vincenzo Lauro (1566), founder of the seminary, during whose incumbency the cathedral and other churches were torn down to make room for the citadel; Giovanni Battista Isnardi (1697), who restored the episcopal palace and the church of St. Dalmazaio; Carlo Felice Sanmartino (1741), founder of the new seminary, and Giovanni Tommaso Ghilardi, O.P. (1842).

The city, at first part of the Diocese of Asti, became the seat of a bishop, suffragan of the Archbishop of Milan, but, since 1515, the Archdiocese of Turin has been its metropolitan. In 1817, the territory of Cuneo was detached from the See of Mondovì, making the diocese of Cuneo.

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