Diocese of Trieste
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| Country | Italy |
| Church region | Triveneto |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Gorizia |
| Diocesan bishop | Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi |
| Vicar General | Pier Emilio Salvadè Vicar General for Slovenes: Anton Bedenčič SDB |
| surface | 134 km² |
| Parishes | 59 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Residents | 243,400 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics | 223,300 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| proportion of | 91.7% |
| Diocesan priest | 94 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 57 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,479 |
| Permanent deacons | 17 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Friars | 63 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 139 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Italian, Slovenian and German language |
| cathedral | San Giusto Cathedral |
| address | Via Cavana 16 34124 Trieste Italia |
| Website | www.webdiocesi.chiesacattolica.it |
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The diocese of Trieste ( Latin : Dioecesis Tergestina , Italian : Diocesi di Trieste , Slov. Tržaška Škofija ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church around the northern Italian city of Trieste . It is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Gorizia and comprises 60 parishes. The cathedral church of the Bishop of Trieste is the Cathedral of San Giusto .
history
There is evidence that the city of Trieste has been the seat of a bishop since the 6th century. Due to the early veneration of Saint Justus of Trieste ( San Giusto ) and the pronounced liturgical and ecclesiological organization of the Christian community in this period, it is assumed that the city already had a bishop in the 1st or 2nd century. It is also assumed that the spread of the Christian faith in the area of today's Trieste came from the bishops of Aquileia . Due to its close relationship, the diocese was subordinate to the Metropolitan of Aquileia. In the course of the three chapters dispute , the archbishops of Aquileia turned away from Rome in 567 and accepted the title of patriarch . The diocese of Trieste as a suffragan diocese of Aquileia also turned away from the Holy See. When the Lombards invaded Friuli in 568, the Patriarch of Aquileia Paulus fled to Grado . His successor, Patriarch Candidianus , who resided in Grado, sought communion with Rome again in 606; a project that his cathedral chapter, which remained in Aquileia, did not join, but the diocese of Trieste, which since then has been under the patriarch of Grado ( Aquileia Nova ).
San Giusto , the Cathedral of Trieste
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Bust of Pope Pius II , Trieste Cathedral
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In the 10th century, the bishop of Trieste, John II , was granted secular power over the city. On August 8, 948, King Lothar II of Italy gave him jurisdiction over the city and its surroundings as well as a number of other rights of rule. The bishop thus became the prince-bishop and deputy of the king, but also had to guarantee the permanent affiliation of the city to his kingdom. Although this regulation was effective until the 13th century, there was an increasing conflict over the centuries between the Trieste population, who wanted real pastors to the bishopric, and the German kings and emperors, who wanted to force loyal liege lords on the city as bishops , from. Furthermore, the citizens of Trieste increasingly disregarded the authority of the bishop and gained more and more independence from him. On March 10, 1295, Bishop Brissa di Toppo finally renounced the last episcopal control over the organs of the people's representation in Trieste. The city thus became a de facto and de jure free commune.
In 1751 the Archdiocese of Gorizia was established by Pope Benedict XIV , to whom the Diocese of Trieste has been subordinate as a suffragan diocese ever since.
On June 30, 1828, the Diocese of Trieste was united with the Diocese of Koper to form the Diocese of Trieste and Capodistria . It was not until October 17, 1977 - two years after the Treaty of Osimo , in which Trieste, Italy and Koper were finally annexed to the Yugoslav state - that the two dioceses were separated again.
Well-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
