Roman Catholic Diocese of Mantua

Diocese of Mantua Dioecesis Mantuana
Mantua Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Milan
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 363,414 345,280 (95.0%)
Information
Rite	Roman
Established	804 (1220 years ago)
Cathedral	Cattedrale di San Pietro Apostolo
Co-cathedral	Basilica di Sant'Andrea Apostolo
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Roberto Busti
Emeritus Bishops	Egidio Caporello
Map
Website
www.diocesidimantova.it

Basilica di S. Andrea Apostolo (Co-cathedral)

The Diocese of Mantua (Latin: Dioecesis Mantuana) is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy. It was erected in 804, and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan. The diocese has produced one Pope and (Latin) Patriarch of Constantinople, and two cardinals.

The diocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its bishop is the Cathedral of S. Pietro Apostolo; Mantua also contains the Basilica of Sant'Andrea. The last Bishop of Mantua was Egidio Caporello, appointed by Pope John Paul II on June 28, 1986. As of 2013 the Bishop was Roberto Busti.

List of bishops of Mantova since 1238

Bishop	Start date		End date
Giacomo da Castell'Arquato	1238	Appointed	December 1251	Appointed Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Martin de Puzalerio	1252	Appointed	24 July 1268	Died
Antonio Uberti	14 November 1390	Appointed	1417	Died
Giovanni degli Uberti	16 February 1418	Appointed	1428	Died
Matteo Boniperti, O.P.	21 May 1428	Appointed	24 August 1444	Died
Galeazzo Cavriani	11 September 1444	Appointed	16 July 1466	Died
Francesco Gonzaga	20 August 1466	Appointed	21 October 1483	Died
Sigismondo Gonzaga	10 February 1511	Appointed	10 May 1521	Resigned
Ercole Gonzaga	10 May 1521	Appointed	2 March 1563	Died
Federico Gonzaga	4 June 1563	Appointed	21 February 1565	Died
Francesco Gonzaga	15 May 1565	Appointed	6 January1566	Died
Gregorio Boldrini, O.P.	7 February 1567	Appointed	2 November 1574	Died
Marco Fedele Gonzaga	28 November 1574	Appointed	8 September 1583	Died
Alessandro Andreasi	14 November 1583	Appointed	23 March 1593	Died
Francesco Gonzaga, O.F.M.	30 April 1593	Appointed	2 March 1620	Died
Vincenzo Agnello Suardi	2 March 1620	Succeeded	September 1644	Died
Maffeo Vitale, O.F.M.	5 February 1646	Appointed	23 June 1669	Died
Ferdinando Tiberius Gonzaga	23 February 1671	Appointed	1673	Died
Joannes Lucidus Cataneo	12 March 1674	Appointed	February 1685	Died
Enrico Vialardi, B.	3 March 1687	Appointed	6 December 1711	Died
Alessandro Arrigoni	30 January1713	Appointed	13 August 1718	Died
Antonio Guidi di Bagno (it)	26 April 1719	Appointed	21 December 1761	Died
Juan Portugal de la Puebla	29 March 1762	Appointed	17 January1770	Resigned
Giovanni Battista de Pergen	29 January1770	Appointed	12 November 1807	Died
Giuseppe Maria Bozzi	16 May 1823	Appointed	14 December 1833	Died
Giovanni Battista Bellé	24 July 1835	Confirmed	30 June 1844	Died
Giovanni Corti	12 April 1847	Confirmed	12 December 1868	Died
Pietro Rota	27 October 1871	Appointed	3 May 1879	Retired
Giovanni Maria Berengo	12 May 1879	Appointed	10 November 1884	Appointed Archbishop of Udine
St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto	10 November 1884	Appointed	15 June 1893	Appointed Patriarch of Venezia, later Pope Pius X
Paolo Carlo Francesco Origo	18 March 1895	Appointed	13 November 1928	Died
Domenico Menna	16 November 1928	Appointed	8 September 1954	Retired
Antonio Poma	8 September 1954	Appointed	16 July 1967	Appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Bologna
Carlo Ferrari	19 October 1967	Appointed	28 June 1986	Retired
Egidio Caporello	28 June 1986	Appointed	13 July 2007	Retired
Roberto Busti	13 July 2007	Appointed

Parishes

There are 168 parishes, all in the Lombardy region; 166 are in the Province of Mantua and 2 in the Province of Cremona.

External links

• Official site
• Catholic-Hierarchy
• GCatholic.org
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