Zuglio () is a (municipality), former bishopric and Latin Catholic

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in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in the northeastern Italian autonomous region of

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, located about northwest of

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and about northwest of

Udine Udine ( ; ; ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps. It is the capital of the Province of Udine, Regional decentralization entity ...

, in the Val Bût. Its territory includes the (parish church) of San Pietro in Carnia, one of the oldest churches in

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. Zuglio is also home to an archaeological museum including remains from the old Roman town () and the whole Carnia.

Ecclesiastical history

* The Diocese of Zuglio (Italian) or Iulium Carnicum (in Latin) was established in 380 AD (or later according to the source) on territory -originally Cadore and Carnia - split off from the then Diocese of Aquileia and became its

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at its elevation to (metropolitan)

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in 560. The strategic position on the Iulia Augusta (connecting Aquileia, by Monte Croce Carnico, to

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) brought wealth and extended jurisdiction * The barbaric invasions made the inhabitants flee the city, first probably translating their basilica and episcopal see up to San Pietro mount but abandoning Zuglio in 705 after a terrible raid by the Avars. The Longobard historian Paulus Diaconus notes that bishop Fidentius transferred his see to

Cividale Cividale del Friuli (, locally ; ; ) is a town and (municipality) in the Province of Udine, Regional decentralization entity of Udine, part of the Northern Italy, North-Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The town lies above sea-level in th ...

but his successor, Amatore, was chased there to in 737 by Patriarch Callixtus of Aquileia, who made Cividale his patriarchal see. * It was suppressed in 740 at bishop Amatore's death, its territory being merged into the

, but retained the right to a

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until the Napoleonic era. Its former Cathedral, S. Pietro in Carnia, in Zuglio, was not granted co-cathedral status. Carnia ended up in the Archdiocese of Udine, Cadore went in 1846 to the Diocese of Belluno.

Residential Ordinaries

;''Suffragan Bishops of Zuglio'' (

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) (incomplete) * Amantius = Amanzio(393 – death 413) * ... * Januarius = Ianuario (480 – death 490) * ... * Maxentius = Massensio (571? – 591?) Various traditional authors, following ''Italia sacra'' by Ferdinando Ughelli, list him (also named Maximus) as bishop of the Croatian Diocese of Pola * ... * Fidenzio = Fidentius (705? – ?) * Amator(e) (737? – death ?740).

Titular see

In 1967 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Catholic

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of Zuglio (Italian) alias Iulium Carnicum. It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank or the higher archiepiscopal (intermediary) rank: * Titular Bishop Aldo Gobbi (1967.04.22 – death 1973.11.29) as

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of Diocese of Imola (Italy) (1967.04.22 – 1973.11.29) * Titular Bishop Emilio Pizzoni (1974.03.21 – resigned 1985.08.01) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Udine (Italy) (1966.09.06 – retired 1985.08.01), died 1994; previously Bishop of Terracina (Italy) (1951.03.27 – 1966.09.06), Bishop of Priverno (Italy) (1951.03.27 – 1966.09.06), Bishop of

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(Italy) (1951.03.27 – 1966.09.06), Titular Bishop of Gunugus (1966.09.06 – 1974.03.21) * Titular Bishop Pietro Brollo (1985.10.21 – 1996.01.02) as

of Archdiocese of Udine (Italy) (1985.10.21 – 1996.01.02); later Bishop of Belluno–Feltre (Italy) (1996.01.02 – 2000.10.28), Metropolitan Archbishop of above Udine (Italy) (2000.10.28 – death 2009.08.20) * Titular Bishop Alfred Kipkoech Arap Rotich (1996.03.09 – 1997.08.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Nairobi (

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) (1996.03.09 – 1997.08.29); next Military Ordinary of

(Kenya) (1997.08.29 – retired 2016.12.30) *Titular Archbishop Cardinal Mario Zenari (1999.07.12 – 2016.11.19), as papal diplomat:

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(ambassador) to Burkina Faso (1999.07.24 – 2004.05.10), Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka (2004.05.10 – 2008.12.30), Apostolic Nuncio to Syria (2008.12.30 – ...); next created

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of S. Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri (2016.11.19 017.03.25– ...) * Titular Bishop Pedro Sergio de Jesús Mena Díaz (2017.05.27 – ...),

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as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Yucatán (Mexico) (2017.05.27 – ...).

Twin towns

* Rosegg, Austria

References

Bibliography

* Francesco Lanzoni, ''Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604)'', vol. II, Faenza 1927, pp. 895–896

External links

Official website

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