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The Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino () is a
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The seat of the archbishop is the Cathedral of the Assumption in Siena. Until 1459, the diocese was immediately subject to the Holy See (Papacy), and its bishops attended the Roman synods. In 1459,
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made Siena a metropolitan archbishopric.


History

From September 1407 to January 1408, Siena played host to the papal Court of
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of the Roman Obedience. In 1423, Siena was host to what was announced as a general council of the Church. Such meetings had been mandated by the
Council of Constance The Council of Constance (; ) was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church that was held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance (Konstanz) in present-day Germany. This was the first time that an ecumenical council was convened in ...
, and, though
Pope Martin V Pope Martin V (; ; January/February 1369 – 20 February 1431), born Oddone Colonna, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 November 1417 to his death in February 1431. His election effectively ended the We ...
was most reluctant to have another council like Pisa or Constance, he authorized the assembly to meet in Pavia in the Spring of 1423. On 22 June, however, alleging the presence of the pestilence in Pavia, the Pope transferred the council to Siena. On 21 July 1423 the Council reopened in Siena, though there was only one general session, on 8 November. Work continued until the papal legates dissolved the council on 26 February 1424, though the papal bull of dissolution was not published until 12 March. When Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, who was born near the town and served as bishop of Siena since 1450, got elected as Pope Pius II in 1458, he soon issued the bull "Triumphans Pastor" (22 April 1459), in which he raised the diocese of Siena to metropolitan status, and assigned to it as
suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led ...
s the dioceses of Soano, Chiusi, Massa, and Grosseto.


Consolidation

The
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, in order to ensure that all Catholics received proper spiritual attention, decreed the reorganization of the diocesan structure of Italy and the consolidation of small and struggling dioceses. In 1980, the diocese of Montalcino claimed a Catholic population of 24,500 persons. Colle di Val d'Elsa had slightly over 60,000. On 18 February 1984, the Vatican and the Italian State signed a new and revised concordat. Based on the revisions, a set of ''Normae'' was issued on 15 November 1984, which was accompanied in the next year, on 3 June 1985, by enabling legislation. According to the agreement, the practice of having one bishop govern two separate dioceses at the same time, ''aeque personaliter'', was abolished. This made the combining of Montalcino and Colle di Val d'Elsa under one bishop infeasible. Instead, the Vatican continued consultations which had begun under
Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII (born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963. He is the most recent pope to take ...
for the merging of small dioceses, especially those with personnel and financial problems, into one combined diocese. On 30 September 1986,
Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...
ordered that the dioceses of Montalcino and Colle be merged with the diocese of Siena, into one diocese with one bishop, with the Latin title ''Archidioecesis Senensis-Collensis-Ilcinensis''. The seat of the diocese was to be in Siena, and the cathedral of Siena was to serve as the cathedral of the merged dioceses. The cathedrals in Montalcino and Colle were to become co-cathedrals, and the cathedral Chapters were to be a ''Capitulum Concathedralis''. There was to be only one diocesan Tribunal, in Siena, and likewise one seminary, one College of Consultors, and one Priests' Council. The territory of the new diocese was to include the territory of the former dioceses of Montalcino and of Colle.


Synods

A provincial synod was an irregularly summoned meeting of the Metropolitan Archbishop of an ecclesiastical province with his suffragan bishops and other prelates, for the purpose of legislating for and reforming the collection of dioceses which belonged to the synod. A diocesan synod was an irregularly held, but important, meeting of the bishop of a diocese and his clergy. Its purpose was (1) to proclaim generally the various decrees already issued by the bishop; (2) to discuss and ratify measures on which the bishop chose to consult with his clergy; (3) to publish statutes and decrees of the diocesan synod, of the provincial synod, and of the Holy See. John Paul II, Constitutio Apostolica ''de Synodis Dioecesanis Agendis'' (March 19, 1997)
''Acta Apostolicae Sedis'' 89
(1997), pp. 706-727.
Cardinal Francesco Maria Tarugi (1597–1607), Archbishop of Siena, presided over a provincial synod in Siena in 1599, and published the decrees of the assembly. Archbishop Giuseppe Mancini (1824–1855) held a provincial synod in Siena from 30 June to 7 July 1850. The sessions were attended by four suffragan bishops (Massa e Populonia, Sovana e Pitigliano, Grosseto, and Chiusi e Pienza) as well as two bishops directly dependent upon the Holy See (Arezzo, Montepulciano). The decrees of the synod were published.


Bishops and archbishops of Siena


to 1000

* * lorianus (313–335)* odo (440)* Eusebius (attested 465) * agnus (520)* aurus (565)* ymo (597)* obertus (612)* iriteus (628)* ntifredus (642)* Maurus (attested 649) * ndreas (658)* ualteranus (670)* erardus (674)* Vitellianus (attested 679) * upus (689–?)* ausivius (722)* Adeodatus (attested 715, 730) * Grossus (attested 743) * Jordanus (attested 761) * Peredeus (776) * oannes (792)* herardus (?) * Andrea (attested 795, 801) * iriteus (800)* Perteus (Petrus) (826) * ommaso (830)* Anastasius (attested 833) * erardus (841)* Concio (Cantius) (844–853) * herardo (855)* mbrosius (864)* nsifredo (uncertain)* bertino (900)* gidio (906)* Theoderigus (attested 913 or 915) * Gerardus (attested 946) * italianus* isanus (963)* ucidus* Ildebrandus (attested 1000, 1018)


1000 to 1458

* Adeodato (1001) * Giselbertus (attested 1012) * Leo (attested 1027, 1030) * dalbertus (attested 1036)* Joannes (1037–1063) * Antifredo (1058) * offredus ? (1059)* Amadio (1062) * Adelbertus (attested 1068) * Rodulfus (attested 1073–1084) * Gualfredus (attested 1108–1127) * Ranierius (1127–1170) * Gunteramus (1170–1188) * Bonus (1189–1215) * Bonfilius (1216–1252) * Tommaso Fusconi (1253–1273) * Bernardo (1273–1281) * Rainaldo di Uguccione Malavolti (1282–1307) * Ruggeri, O. P. (1307–1316) * Donusdei dei Malavolti (1317–1350) * Azzolino dei Malavolti (1351–1370) * Iacopo di Egidio dei Malavolti (1370–1371) * Guglielmo Vasco, O.Min.Conv. (1371–1377) * Luca Bettini (1377–1384) * ichele Pelagalli, O.P. (1384)* Carlo Minutoli (1384–1385 resigned) * Francesco Mormigli (1385–1396 resigned) * Guglielmo, (1396–1407) * Gabriele Condulmer, C.R. (1407–1409 resigned) * Antonio Casini (1409–1427 resigned) * Carlo Bartoli (1427–1446) * Cristoforo di San Marcello (1444) * Neri da Montecarlo (1444–1450) * Enea Silvio Piccolomini (23 September 1450 – August 19, 1458). * Antonio Piccolomini, O.S.B. (1458–1459)


Archbishops of Siena

* Francesco Piccolomini (1460–1503) * Giovanni Piccolomini (1503 – 7 April 1529 resigned) * Francesco Bandini Piccolomini (1529–1588) * Ascanio I Piccolomini (1588–1597) * Francesco Maria Tarugi (1597–1607 resigned) * Camillo Borghese (1607–1612) * Metello Bichi (17 December 1612 – 23 March 1615 resigned) * Alessandro Petrucci (1615–1628) * Ascanio Piccolomini (1629 – 14 September 1671) * Celio Piccolomini (18 March 1671 – 24 May 1681) * Leonardo Marsili (1682 – 8 April 1713) * Alessandro Zondadari (20 January 1715 – 4 January 1744) * Alessandro Cervini (1747–1771) * Tiberio Borghesi (1772–1792) * Alfonso Marsili (1792–1794) * Antonio Felice Zondadari (1795–1823) * Giuseppe Mancini (1824–1855) * Ferdinando Baldanzi (1855–1866)Born in Prato in 1789, Baldanzi had been a Canon of the cathedral of Prato, and then Bishop of Volterra (1851–1855). He was appointed Archbishop of Siena by
Pope Pius IX Pope Pius IX (; born Giovanni Maria Battista Pietro Pellegrino Isidoro Mastai-Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of nearly 32 years is the longest verified of any pope in hist ...
on 28 September 1855. He died on 7 March 1866. Ritzler-Sefrin VIII, p. 595.
* (1866–1871) * Enrico Bindi (27 October 1871 – 1876) * Giovanni Pierallini (29 September 1876 – 1888) * Celestino Zini (1889 – 19 May 1892) * Benedetto Tommasi (11 June 1892 – 1908) * Prospero Scaccia (5 June 1909 – 29 September 1932) * Gustavo Matteoni (29 September 1932 – 17 November 1934) * Mario Toccabelli (1 April 1935 – 14 April 1961)


Archbishops of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino

On 30 September 1986 the archdiocese was united with the Diocese of Colle di Val d'Elsa and the Diocese of Montalcino, and named in Latin ''Senensis-Collensis-Ilcinensis''. * Mario Jsmaele Castellano, O.P. (6 June 1961 – 14 November 1989 retired) * Gaetano Bonicelli (14 November 1989 – 23 May 2001 retired) * Antonio Buoncristiani (23 May 2001 – 6 May 2019 retired) * Augusto Paolo Lojudice (6 May 2019 – present) File:Duomo collevaldelsa fronte.jpg, upright=1.4, Co-cathedral of
Colle di Val d'Elsa Colle di Val d'Elsa or Colle Val d'Elsa is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Siena, Tuscany. It has a population of c. 21,600 . Its name means "Hill of Elsa Valley", where Elsa (river), Elsa is the name of the river which crosses it and Val ...
File:Duomo di montalcino 03.JPG, upright=1.4, Co-cathedral in
Montalcino Montalcino is a hill town and ''comune'' in the province of Siena, Tuscany, central Italy. The town is located to the west of Pienza, close to the Crete Senesi in Val d'Orcia. It is from Siena, from Florence and from Pisa. Monte Amiata is l ...


See also

* Roman Catholic Diocese of Colle di Val d'Elsa * Roman Catholic Diocese of Montalcino *
List of Catholic dioceses in Italy The following is a list of Catholic dioceses in Italy. , the Catholic Church in Italy is divided into sixteen ecclesiastical regions. While they are similar to the 20 Regions of Italy, civil regions of the Italian state, there are some differences ...


References


Books

* pp. 753–754. (Use with caution; obsolete) * * * * * * * * *


Studies

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''Italia pontificia''
vol. III. Berlin 1908. pp. 268–278. *Lanzoni, Francesco (1927).
Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604)
'. Faenza: F. Lega. pp. 564–568. * *Lotti, A. (1992). ''La chiesa di Siena a i suoi vescovi''. Siena 1992. * *Schneider, Feodor, ed. (1911). ''Regestum Senese'' (Rome, 1911). *Schwartz, Gerhard (1913)
''Die Besetzung der Bistümer Reichsitaliens unter den sächsischen und salischen Kaisern : mit den Listen der Bischöfe, 951-1122''
Leipzig-Berlin 1913, pp. 221–223. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Siena Roman Catholic dioceses in Tuscany Dioceses established in the 4th century