Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trento

The Archdiocese of Trent ( Latin: Archidioecesis Tridentina, Italian: Arcidiocesi di Trento) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese based in Trento. The Archdiocese is spatially identical to the Trentino and forms of his subordinate Diocese of Bolzano -Bressanone in South Tyrol, the Church Province of Trento.

Patron of the Archdiocese is the martyr-bishop Vigilius of Trent, episcopal church is the Cathedral, dedicated in 1145 St. Vigilius ( Cattedrale San Vigilio ) in Trento.

History

Diocese

According to legend Trent 's been since the 1st century bishopric, as the first bishop, however, in the year 381 Abundatius detectable as participants in a synod at Aquileia. Since 952, the diocese was part of the Holy Roman Empire.

In the 16th century the diocese was the site of the Council of Trent. Until 1751 the Diocese of Trent was part of the ecclesiastical province of Aquileia, then the Ecclesiastical Province of Gorizia. In 1772 it was exemt ( ie directly subordinate to the Pope ), in 1825, suffragan again (this time the archbishopric of Salzburg ). Since 1920, Trento is exemt again, in 1929 it was raised to an archbishopric ( at that time still without suffragans ).

In 1964, the German-speaking areas of the diocese of Trent were beaten in South Tyrol to the diocese of Brixen, who has now assumed the name Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of New Trent.

Bishopric of Trent

Beginning of the 11th century was created by transferring the county Trent ( 1004), the County of Bolzano ( 1027) and the County of Val Venosta the prince- bishopric of Trento, with the bishop of Trent, now also the temporal power over the city and across the diocese beyond region received.

As of 1150, the Counts of Tyrol bailiffs of the Bishopric, from 1253 Meinhardiner were, from 1363, the Counts of Habsburg. By 1803 the diocese was rich and immediately held a Virilstimme in the Imperial Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. By 1800, it had about 155,000 inhabitants. In 1803 it came to the County of Tyrol ( Empire of Austria ) and the Tyrol to the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1805 to 1809 and from 1810 to 1813 to the Kingdom of Italy. As of 1814, the diocese was re Austrian, 1919, coincided with South Tyrol in Italy. The title of prince led the bishops until 1951.

On the territory of the Bishopric of Trent, in Revo, 1726 Karl Anton von Martini, lawyer and creator of the Austrian General Civil Code, was born.

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