Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinerolo

Diocese of Pinerolo Dioecesis Pineroliensis
File:110525 Pinerolo Duomo di Pinerolo CS (101).jpg Pinerolo Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Turin
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 100,250 80,000 (79.8%)
Parishes	62
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	23 December 1748
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Donato
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Piergiorgio Debernardi
Map
File:Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinerolo in Italy.svg
Website
www.diocesipinerolo.it

The Diocese of Pinerolo (Latin: Dioecesis Pineroliensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the province of Turin of Piedmont, Northern Italy. It is a suffragan of the archbishopric of Turin.

Ecclesiastical history

Pinerolo’s episcopal see was originally an abbey nullius. It was founded in 1064 by Adelaide, Princess of Susa, in Abbadia Alpina. In the tenth century it belonged to the Marca di Torino (March of Turin) and was governed by the abbots of Pinerolo, even after the city had established itself as a commune (1200). From 1235, however, Amadeus IV of Savoy exercised over the town a kind of protectorate which, in 1243, became absolute, and was exercised thereafter either by the house of Savoy.

Pinerolo was made a diocese in 1748, at the request of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, its first prelate being G. B. d'Orlié.

In 1805, conformably with the wish of Napoleon I Bonaparte, the diocese was united with the bishopric of Saluzzo, but in 1817 it was re-established as an independent episcopal see.

Those of its churches deserving mention are the cathedral (which dates from the ninth century, and has a beautiful campanile) and San Maurizio, a beautiful Gothic church, from the belfry of which there is a superb view of the Alps and of the sub-Alpine plain.

Parishes

The 62 parishes are all within the Piedmontese province of Turin

Piedmont

Province of Turin

Angrogna

S. Lorenzo

Bibiana

S. Marcellino

Bobbio Pellice

S. Maria Assunta

Bricherasio

S. Maria Assunta

S. Michele (San Michele)

Buriasco

S. Michele

Nostra Signora del Buon Rimedio (Appendini)

Campiglione-Fenile

S. Giovanni Battista (Campiglione Fenile)

Santi Gervasio e Protasio (Fenile)

Cantalupa

S. Maria Assunta

Fenestrelle

S. Luigi Ix

S. Giusto (Mentoulles)

Frossasco

S. Donato

Inverso Pinasca

S. Francesco di Sales

Luserna San Giovanni

S. Cuore di Gesù

S. Giacomo

S. Giovanni Battista

Lusernetta

S. Antonio

Macello

S. Maria Maddalena

Osasco

Natività di Maria Vergine

Perosa Argentina

S. Genesio

S. Giuseppe

Perrero

S. Maria Maddalena

S. Martino (San Martino)

Invenzione di S. Croce (Trossieri)

Pinasca

S. Maria Assunta

S. Antonio (Grandubbione)

S. Rocco (Pinasca-Dubbione)

Pinerolo

Cuore Immacolato di Maria

Madonna di Fatima

S. Donato nella Cattedrale

S. Leonardo Murialdo

S. Luigi Ix

S. Maurizio

Santi Michele e Lorenzo

Spirito Santo

S. Verano (Abbadia Alpina)

S. Marco (Baudenasca)

S. Maria della Neve (Pascaretto)

S. Barbara (Riva di Pinerolo)

S. Maddalena (Talucco)

Pomaretto

S. Nicolao

Porte

S. Michele

Pragelato

S. Maria Assunta (La Ruà)

S. Lorenzo (Traverses)

Prali

S. Lorenzo (Rodoretto)

S. Giovanni Battista (Villa di Rodoretto)

Pramollo

Natività di Maria Vergine (Rue)

Prarostino

S. Bartolomeo

Roletto

Natività di Maria Vergine

Roure

S. Stefano (Castel del Bosco)

S. Giovanni Battista (Villaretto)

Salza di Pinerolo

Natività di Maria Vergine

San Germano Chisone

S. Germano

S. Carlo Borromeo (Inverso Porte)

San Pietro Val Lemina

Santi Pietro e Paolo

San Secondo di Pinerolo

S. Secondo

S. Maria Assunta (Miradolo)

Torre Pellice

S. Martino

Usseaux

S. Pietro

Villar Pellice

S. Maurizio

Villar Perosa

S. Pietro in Vincoli

Sources and references

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