Roman Catholic Diocese of Trieste

The Diocese of Trieste (Latin: Dioecesis Tergestina, ital. Diocese of Trieste, Slo Tržaška Škofija ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church to the northern Italian city of Trieste. It is subject to the archdiocese of Gorizia and comprises 60 parishes. The cathedral church of the bishop of Trieste, the San Giusto Cathedral.

History

Trieste is proven since the 6th century seat of a bishop. Due to the early worship of saints Justus of Trieste (San Giusto ) and the distinct liturgical and ecclesiological organization of the Christian Church in this period is, however, believed that the city already had the 1st or 2nd century a bishop. It is further assumed that the spread of the Christian faith originated in what is now Trieste by the bishops of Aquileia. Because of its close relationship with the diocese was subordinated to the metropolitans of Aquileia. In the wake of the Three Chapters controversy, the archbishops of Aquileia 567 Rome turned away and took the title of patriarch. The Diocese of Trieste as a suffragan of Aquileia turned away also by the Holy See. When the Lombards invaded 568 in Friuli, fled the Patriarch of Aquileia Paulinus to Grado. His successor, Patriarch Candidianus, who resided in Grado, 606 sought again the communion with Rome; a project which his remaining in Aquileia cathedral chapter not joined, but the diocese of Trieste, which has since the Patriarch of Grado ( Aquileia Nova ) under stood.

In the 10th century, was the bishop of Trieste, John II, conferred temporal power over the city. King Lothair II of Italy conferred on him on August 8, 948 the court authority over the city and its surroundings as well as a number of other sovereign rights. The bishop thus became the prince-bishop and representative of the king, but also had the permanent membership of the city to guarantee his kingdom. Although this scheme was effective until the 13th century, distinguished himself over the centuries an increasing conflict between the Trieste population who wanted genuine pastors to the bishop's throne, and the German kings and emperors, who wanted to impose the city them loyal lords as bishops, from. Furthermore, the Trieste citizens increasingly translated across the authority of the bishop and gained him towards more and more independence. On March 10, 1295 finally renounced Bishop Brissa di Toppo on the last episcopal control over the organs of popular representation in Trieste. The city was thus de facto and de jure for free commune.

1751 Archdiocese of Gorizia was established by Pope Benedict XIV, who since then is under the diocese of Trieste as suffragan.

On June 30, 1828, the Diocese of Trieste was combined with the Diocese of Koper to the diocese of Trieste and Koper. It was only on 17 October 1977 - two years after the Treaty of Osimo, in the Trieste and Koper finally Italy were the Yugoslav state affiliated - was the separation of these two dioceses.

Known Bishops of Trieste

  • Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1447-1450), later Pope Pius II
  • Pietro Bonomo (1458-1546), humanist, politician and 1522/1523 Bishop of Vienna
  • Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart (1730-1820), later Bishop of St. Pölten and Archbishop of Vienna
  • Franz Xaver Nagl (1855-1913), later Archbishop of Vienna
Vicar general Friar Trieste Cathedral Paulinus I of Aquileia Lothair II of Italy Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Udine Roman Catholic Diocese of Adria-Rovigo Roman Catholic Diocese of Belluno-Feltre Roman Catholic Diocese of Chioggia Roman Catholic Diocese of Concordia-Pordenone Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua Roman Catholic Diocese of Treviso Roman Catholic Diocese of Verona Roman Catholic Diocese of Vicenza
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