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Roman Catholic Diocese of Belluno-Feltre

Roman Catholic Diocese of Belluno-Feltre

Roman Catholic diocese in Italy

The Diocese of Belluno-Feltre (Latin: Dioecesis Bellunensis-Feltrensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in the Veneto, northern Italy, organized in its current form in 1986. From 1197 to 1762, and again from 1818 to 1986, the Diocese of Belluno and the Diocese of Feltre were united under a single bishop, with the name diocese of Belluno e Feltre. The current diocese is a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Venice.[1][2]

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History

Christianity is said to have been first preached there by St. Hermagoras, a disciple of St. Mark and first Bishop of Aquileia,[3] and next by Prosdocimus, first Bishop of Padua.[4] As Francesco Lanzoni points out, there is no actual evidence.[5] Ferdinando Ughelli[6] places the first bishop, Theodorus, in the reign of Emperor Commodus (180–192), and the second, St. Salvator, as succeeding under Pertinax (193). A second Bishop Theodorus is said to have brought from Egypt the remains of St. Giovata (Zotas), patron of the city. A "Passion of S. Zotas", found in a manuscript of the 12th century, claims that Zotas had been executed at Ptolemais (?) in Libya by an official of the Emperor Maximianus (285–305); his body was buried by Bishop Theodorus. Zotas, however, is completely unknown to the ancient martyrologies of Egypt and Libya. Modern authors of Belluno claim that Bishop Theodore left his diocese and brought the remains of Zotas to Belluno, where, in due course, he was elected bishop. The tales carry no weight.[7]

The first bishop known to history is a certain Laurentius. In 587, he attended the schismatic assembly convened by Severus, Patriarch of Aquileia, in connection with the schism of the Three Chapters.[8]

At the end of the 10th century Belluno was affected by the political disturbances then agitating the Venetian provinces. On 10 September 963, Bishop Joannes II (959) obtained from Emperor Otto I for himself and his successors the title of count and temporal sovereignty over the city and the surrounding territory.[9] He also fortified the city.

The twelfth century was a stormy period for Belluno, in both civil and ecclesiastical respects. In the spring of 1197, Bishop Gerardo de Taccoli joined the united armies of Belluno, Padua and Forogiulio to besiege the Castello of Zumelle. On 20 April, at the battle of Cesana, Bishop Gerardo of Belluno was killed by the soldiers of Treviso. The Patriarch of Aquileia immediately excommunicated the people of Treviso. Belluno was left without a bishop.[10] In the 16th century, Giulio Doglioni published a catalogue of bishops of Belluno from old manuscripts, which contained the notice: "Drudus de Camino Feltren. et Bellun. episcopus, sub quo primum uniti sunt episcopatus Belluni et Feltri." Another ancient catalogue was published by Gianantonio degli Egregii, containing the statement: "Uniti sunt episcopalus Belluni et Feltri. Successit episcopus Drudus episcopo Gerardo."[11] Bishop Drudus succeeded the murdered Gerardus as bishop of the united dioceses; Drudus died in 1200. The two dioceses continued to be suffragans of the Patriarch of Aquileia.[12]

In 1462, at the request of the Venetian Republic, the two dioceses were separated.[13]

The first Bishop of Belluno following the separation was Ludovico Donato. Bishops Pietro Barozzi, Mose Buffarello, and Bernardo Rossi (1499) rebuilt the cathedral. Luigi Lollin (1595) promoted the love of learning among the clergy and left bequests to provide for a number of priests at the University of Padua. Giulio Berlendis (1655) completed the work of enforcing the Tridentine reforms, and Gianfrancesco Bembo, a member of the Somaschi (1695), was zealous in the cause of popular education.

In 1751, pressured both by Austria and Venice, who were exasperated by the numerous discords in the patriarchate of Aquileia, Pope Benedict XIV was compelled to intervene in the ecclesiastical and political disturbances. In the bull "Injuncta Nobis" of 6 July 1751, the patriarchate of Aquileia was completely suppressed, and in its place the Pope created two separate archdioceses, Udine and Goritza. The dioceses which had been suffragans of Aquileia and were under Venetian political control, Belluno among them, were assigned to the new archdiocese of Udine.[14]

Post-Napoleonic reorganization

In 1818 the diocese of Belluno was again united with that of Feltre.[15] The violent expansionist military policies of the French Revolutionary Republic had brought confusion and dislocation to the Po Valley. Following the redistribution of European territories at the Congress of Vienna, the Papacy faced the difficult task of restoring and restructuring the Church in various territories, according to the wishes of their rulers. Belluno and Venice were under the control of Austria, and therefore a Concordat had to be negotiated with the government of the Emperor Francis. One of the requirements of the Austrian government was the elimination of several metropolitanates and the suppression of a number of bishoprics which were no longer viable due to the bad climate (malaria and cholera) and the impoverishment of the dioceses due to migration and industrialization; it was expected that this would be done to the benefit of the Patriarchate of Venice.

Pope Pius VII, therefore, issued the bull "De Salute Dominici Gregis" on 1 May 1818, embodying the conclusions of arduous negotiations. The metropolitan archbishopric of Udine was abolished and its bishop made suffragan to Venice. The dioceses of Caprularum (Caorle) and Torcella were suppressed and their territories assigned to the Patriarchate of Venice; Belluno and Feltre were united under a single bishop, aeque personaliter, and assigned to Venice; Padua and Verona became suffragans of Venice.[16]

Chapters and cathedrals

The cathedral of Belluno is dedicated to S. Martin. It is staffed and administered (1847) by a Chapter composed of one dignity, the Dean, and ten Canons, assisted by several chaplains mansionarii and chaplains prebendary.[17]

The co-cathedral at Feltre is dedicated to S. Peter. It had a Chapter which was composed of two dignities (the Dean and the Archdeacon) and twelve Canons. The co-cathedral functions as a parish, and therefore the Canon called the Sacristan has the responsibility of caring for the spiritual needs of the parishioners ("the cure of souls").[18]

Diocesan synods

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.[19]

Bishop Giovanni Battista Valier (1575–1596) presided over a diocesan synod in 1575. He was particularly concerned with liturgical laxness, and with teaching correct doctrine in face of Protestant infiltration from Germany; his predecessor had already introduced the Franciscans and the Inquisition to Belluno.[20]

Bishop Giovanni Delfin (1626–1634) presided over a diocesan synod in the cathedral of Belluno on 27 and 28 April 1629, and had the constitutions of the synod published.[21] On 25–27 October 1639, Bishop Giovanni Tommaso Malloni (1634–1649) held a synod for the diocese of Belluno, and published the decrees of the synod.[22]

Bishop Gianfrancesco Bembo (1694–1720) presided over a diocesan synod on 9–11 July 1703, and published the decrees.[23] BIshop Giacomo Costa (1747–1755) held a synod from 30 August to 1 September 1750.[24]

On 2–4 July 1861, Bishop Giovanni Renier (1855–1871) held a synod for the dioceses of Belluno and Feltre in Belluno.[25] Renier himself was a participant in the provincial council of Venice in 1863.[26]

Bishop Pietro Brollo (1996-2001) presided over the first diocesan synod of the newly reconstituted diocese of Belluno-Feltre.

Reorganization

Co-cathedral Feltre

In a decree of the Second Vatican Council, it was recommended that dioceses be reorganized to take into account modern developments.[27] A project begun on orders from Pope John XXIII, and continued under his successors, was intended to reduce the number of dioceses in Italy and to rationalize their borders in terms of modern population changes and shortages of clergy. The change was made urgent because of changes made to the Concordat between the Italian State and the Holy See on 18 February 1984, and embodied in a law of 3 June 1985. The change was approved by Pope John Paul II in an audience of 27 September 1986, and by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops of the Papal Curia on 30 September 1986. The dioceses of Belluno and Feltre, which had up to that point shared a single bishop while retaining two diocesan structures, were united into a single diocese. Its name was to be Dioecesis Bellunensis-Feltrensis. The seat of the diocese was to be in Belluno. The former cathedral in Feltre was to have the honorary title of co-cathedral, and its Chapter was to be the Capitulum Concathedralis. There was to be only one episcopal curia, one seminary, one ecclesiastical tribunal; and all the clergy were to be incardinated in the diocese of Belluno-Feltre.[28]

Bishops

Diocese of Belluno

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  • Laurentius (attested 589–591)[29]
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  • Odelbertus (attested 877)[30]
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  • Almo (Aimo) (attested 877–923)[31]
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  • Joannes (attested 963–998)[32]
...
  • Lodovicus (attested 1015–1021)[33]
  • Albuinus (attested 1027))[34]
  • Hezemann (attested 1031–1046)[35]
  • Marius (attested 1049)[36]
  • Wolfram ( ? )[37]
  • Reginaldus (attested 1080–1116)[38]
...
  • Bonifacius (1139-1156)
  • Otto (1156-1183)
  • Gerardus de Taccoli (1184–1197)[39]

Diocese of Belluno e Feltre

United: 1197 with Diocese of Feltre

  • Drudus de Camino (attested, as Bishop of Feltre, 1177–1200)[40]
  • Anselmus de Braganze (d. 1204)[41]
  • Torrentinus (1204–1209)[42]
  • Philippus (1209–1224)
  • Oddo (1225–1235?)[43]
  • Eleazar (attested 1235–1239)[44]
  • Alexander de Foro (attested 1243–1246?)
  • Tiso (1247-1257)
  • Adalgerius (1257–1290?)[45]
  • Jacobus Casali, O.Min. (1291–1298)
  • Alessandro Novello, O.Min. (1298–1320)
  • Manfredus Collalto (1320–1321)[46]
  • Gregorius, O.P. (?) (1323–1326)[47]
  • Gorzias (1327–1349)[48]
  • Henricus de Waldeichke (1349–1354)
  • Jacobus de Brünn (1354–1370)
  • Antonius de Nastriis (1370–1392)
  • Alberto di S. Giorgio (1394–1398)
  • Giovanni Capo di Gallo (1398–1404)
  • Enrico Scarampi (9 Apr 1404 – 29 Sep 1440)
  • Thomas (Tomasini) (1440–1446)[49]
  • Jacobus Zeno (1447–1460)[50]
  • Francesco Legnamine (de Padua) (18 Apr 1460 – 11 Jan 1462)

Diocese of Belluno

Split: 1462 to reestablish Roman Catholic Diocese of Feltre

Sede vacante (1649–1653)[62]
  • Giulio Berlendi, C.R.Som. (1653–1694?)[63]
  • Gianfrancesco Bembo, C.R.S. (1 Mar 1694 – 21 Jul 1720)[64]
  • Valerio Rota (16 Sep 1720 – 8 Sep 1730)[65]
  • Gaetano Zuanelli (11 Dec 1730 – 25 Jan 1736)[66]
  • Domenico Nicola Condulmer (27 Feb 1736 – 14 Mar 1747)[67]
  • Giacomo Costa, C.R. (29 May 1747 –1755)[68]
  • Giovanni Battista Sandi (24 May 1756 – 12 Aug 1785)[69]
  • Sebastiano Alcaini, C.R.S. (26 Sep 1785 –1803)[70]

Diocese of Belluno e Feltre

United: 1 May 1818 with Roman Catholic Diocese of Feltre

Sede vacante (1803–1819)
  • Luigi Zuppani (23 Aug 1819 Confirmed – 26 Nov 1841 Died)[71]
  • Antonio Gava (22 Jun 1843 Confirmed – 3 Nov 1852 Resigned)
  • Vincent Scarpa (7 Apr 1854 Confirmed – 5 May 1854 Died)
  • Giovanni Renier (17 Dec 1855 Confirmed – 12 Apr 1871 Died)
  • Salvatore Giovanni Battista Bolognesi, C.O. (27 Oct 1871 – 29 Jan 1899 Died)
  • Francesco Cherubin (19 Jun 1899 – 3 Jul 1910 Died)
  • Giuseppe Foschiani (3 Jul 1910 Succeeded – 5 Oct 1913 Died)
  • Giosuè Cattarossi (1913–1944)[72]
  • Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon, O.F.M. Cap. (9 Sep 1945 –1949)[73]
  • Gioacchino Muccin (19 May 1949 – 1 Sep 1975 Retired)[74]
  • Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli (7 Oct 1975 – 2 Feb 1996 Retired)[75]

Diocese of Belluno-Feltre

since 30 September 1986

See also

Notes and references

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    "Diocese of Belluno-Feltre" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 20, 2016.[self-published source]
  2. [2]
    "Diocese of Belluno–Feltre" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 20. 2016.[self-published source]
  3. [3]
    Lanzoni, pp. 876-883.
  4. [4]
    Lanzoni, pp. 912-915.
  5. [5]
    Lanzoni, p. 906: "Il Cappelletti (X, 108) vuole che s. Ermagora di Aquileia e s. Prosdocimo di Padova siano stati gli evangelizzatori di Belluno; ma senza alcun fondamento."
  6. [6]
    Ughelli V, p. 145. The legendary traditions have been restated by G. Argenta (1981), pp. 5-10.
  7. [7]
    Lanzoni, p. 905, is skeptical: "Ma chi può credere che nel tempo delle persecuzioni un prelato libico lasciasse la sua sede, e, venuto nella penisola, fosse creato vescov^o nelle regioni alpestri della Venezia?."
  8. [8]
    Karl Joseph von Hefele (1895). A History of the Councils of the Church, from the Original Documents. Vol. IV. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. pp. 358–360.
  9. [9]
    Cappelletti X, pp. 113-114.
  10. [10]
    Giovanni Francesco Palladio (1660). Historie della Prouincia del Friuli (in Italian). Vol. Parte 1. Udine: Nell'Academia de gli Suentati detto il Ferace. p. 190.
  11. [11]
    Cappelletti X, p. 151.
  12. [12]
    Cappelletti X, p. 147 (bull of Pope Lucius III for Bishop Drudus of Feltre (29 October 1184): "concessi sunt usibus omnimodis profutura, salva sedis apostolicae auctoritale et Aquilegiensi patriarechae debita reverentia." Eubel I, p. 132.
  13. [13]
    Cappelletti, p. 202.
  14. [14]
    Sanctissimi domini nostri Benedicti Papae XIV Bullarium (in Latin). Vol. Tomus tertius. Mechlin: Hanicq. 1827. pp. 41–61.
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    Benigni, Umberto. "Belluno-Feltre." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. Retrieved: 29 March 2020.
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    Pius VII (1853). Andreas Barberi and Rinaldo Secreti (ed.). Bullarii Romani continuatio (in Latin). Vol. Tomus decimus quintus continens pontificatus Pii 7. annum decimum nonum ad vicesimum quartum. Roma. pp. 36–40.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Cappelletti X, p. 808.
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    Guglielmo Stefani (1854). Dizionario corografico del Veneto (in Italian). Vol. primo, parte seconda. Milano: Stabilimento Civelli Giuseppe E. C. p. 94.
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    Ughelli V, p. 369.
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    Benedictus XIV (1842). "Lib. I. caput secundum. De Synodi Dioecesanae utilitate". Benedicti XIV ... De Synodo dioecesana libri tredecim (in Latin). Vol. Tomus primus. Mechlin: Hanicq. pp. 42–49. John Paul II, Constitutio Apostolica de Synodis Dioecesanis Agendis (March 19, 1997): Acta Apostolicae Sedis 89 (1997), pp. 706-727.
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    Pier Mattia Tommasino (2018). The Venetian Qur'an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 88–90. ISBN 978-0-8122-9497-2.
  21. [21]
    Giovanni Delfin (1629). Constitutiones et decreta Joannis Delphini, episcopi Bellunensis, in prima dioecesana synodo promulgata, anno 1629 (in Latin). Belluno: Franc. Viecerus.
  22. [22]
    Johannes Thomas Malloni (1640). Constitutiones et decreta, in prima Dioecesana Synodo promulgata die 25., 26. et 27. Octobris 1639 (in Latin). Venice: Pinelli.
  23. [23]
    Joannes Franciscus Bembo (1704). Synodus dioecesana Bellunensis ... celebr. 1703 (in Latin). Venice: Antonio Bortoli.
  24. [24]
    Jacobus Costa (1750). Synodus dioecesana ... Bellunensis collegit et die 30. Augusti, ac duobus sequentibus (in Latin). Belluno: Giampicoli.
  25. [25]
    Giovanni Renier (1861). Constitutiones quas Joannes Renier episcopus Feltriensis et Bellunensis edidit in synodo dioecesana Bellunensi habita diebus 2., 3., 4. Julii anno 1861 (in Latin). Belluno: ex typogr. Antonii Tissi.
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    Acta et decreta concilii provincialis veneti primi habiti anno MDCCCLIX: ab excellentissimo et reverendissimo D. D. Angelo Ramazzotti ... (in Latin). Venice: typis J. Grimaldo. 1863. p. 112.
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    Directoriae normae clare a Concilio impertitae de dioecesium recognitione; indicia atque elementa apta ad actionem pastoralem aestimandam ab episcopis suppeditata quibus plurium dioecesium regimen commissum est.
  28. [28]
    Acta Apostolicae Sedis An. et Vol. LXXIX (Città del Vaticano: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis 1987), pp. 665-668.
  29. [29]
    Bishop Laurentius appears in Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum Book III, chapter 26. Lanzoni, p. 907.
  30. [30]
    Odelbertus attended the Council of Mantua in 827. Cappelletti X, p. 110.
  31. [31]
    Almo: Ughelli V, pp. 146-147. Cappelletti X, pp. 110-112.
  32. [32]
    Joannes is said to have become bishop in 959. Cappelletti X, p. Schwartz, p. 43.
  33. [33]
    Bishop Lodovicus was present at the synod of Aquileia in 1015. Schwartz, p. 43.
  34. [34]
    Bishop Albuinus was present at the Roman synod of 6 April 1027. Schwartz, p. 43.
  35. [35]
    Hezemann: Schwartz, p. 44, with note 1.
  36. [36]
    Marius: Schwartz, p. 44, with note 3.
  37. [37]
    Bishop Wolfram died between 1057 and 1075. Schwartz, p. 44, with note 5.
  38. [38]
    Bishop Reginaldus was a supporter of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and attended the synod of Brixen on 25 June 1080, which anathematized Pope Gregory VII. He was therefore a schismatic. Schwartz, p. 45.
  39. [39]
    Pope Lucius III confirmed the possessions and privileges of Bishop-elect Gerardus on 18 October 1185. He was killed on 20 April 1197 by the people of Treviso. Augusto Buzzati (1890). Bibliografia bellunese (in Italian). Venezia: Tipog. dell'ancora, L. Merlo. pp. 525, no. 1905.
  40. [40]
    It is on record that Drudus (Drudo, in Italian) was the first bishop of Belluno e Feltre. He was already Bishop of Feltre, and after the assassination of Bishop Gerardus in 1197, he became bishop of the two dioceses aeque personaliter. When this happened is not recorded. Cappelletti X, pp. 148-151.
  41. [41]
    Anselmus: Gams, p. 776. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 132.
  42. [42]
    Bishop Torrentinus died on 30 April 1209. Eubel I, p. 132.
  43. [43]
    Oddo was already bishop-elect in early September 1225. Eubel I, p. 132.
  44. [44]
    Eleazar was already bishop-elect in mid-February 1235: Azzoni, Notizie, pp. 88-94, "Monumentum XVIII". Gams, p. 776. Eubel I, p. 132.
  45. [45]
    Adalgerius (Adigerius, Aldrighetus, Adeglierio) di Caporiaco e e Vill'alta Forogiuliese had been a Canon of the cathedral of Aquileia. He was elected by a committee of compromise appointed by the two cathedral Chapters, on 6 November 1257. In December 1282, he took part in the provincial synod of Aquileia, presided over by Patriarch Raimundus. He died on 30 September 1290, and was buried in the cathedral of Belluno. Ughelli V, p. 158. Cappelletti X, pp. 160-162. Eubel I, p. 132. The electoral certificate, dated 6 November 1257, is printed by Azzoni, Notizie, pp. 95-96.
  46. [46]
    Manfredus had previously been Bishop of Ceneda (1310–1320). He was transferred to the dioceses of Belluno and Feltre after the death of Bishop Alexander in February 1320. Bishop Manfredus died in Belluno in April 1321. The appointment of his successor was already reserved to the pope. The two Chapters of Belluno and Feltreno nonetheless held an election, in which Gorgias, the Dean of the Chapter of Feltre and Franciscus, Bishop of Ceneda, competed. Eubel I, 132 with note 4.
  47. [47]
    Gregorius is credited by Eubel in one place as a Dominican, and in another as an Augustan Hermit (O.E.S.A.). G. Mollat, Jean XXII: Lettres communes Tome sixième (Paris: Fontemoing 1912), p. 458, no. 17949. Eubel I, pp. 132, 458.
  48. [48]
    Gorgias (Gorzias) was the Dean of the cathedral Chapter of Feltre. Following the death of Bishop Manfredus in April 1321, the two Chapters of Belluno and Feltre held an election, in which Gorgias and Franciscus, Bishop of Ceneda, competed. Gorgias won; he was confirmed by the Patriarch of Aquileia, and consecrated. On 6 June 1323, however, Pope John XXII appointed (provided) Bishop Gregory of Sorra, who had been named Bishop of Sorra on 7 June 1322 (more than a year after the vacancy at Belluno and Feltre occurred with the death of Bishop Manfredus). Litigation naturally arose between Gorgias and Gregory in the papal courts, which was only terminated by the death of Gregory. Pope John then named Gorgias to the diocese, on 20 February 1317. Gorgias died in 1349. G. Mollat, Jean XXII: Lettres communes Tome sixième (Paris: Fontemoing 1912), p. 458, no. 17949. Eubel I, p. 132-133; 458.
  49. [49]
    Thomasini had been Bishop of Recanati (1435–1440). Eubel, Hierarchia catholica II, p. 103.
  50. [50]
    Zeno was transferred to the diocese of Padua on 26 March 1460, by Pope Pius II. Eubel II, pp. 103, 210.
  51. [51]
    On 9 January 1465 Donato was appointed Bishop of Bergamo.
  52. [52]
    A noble of Venice, Barozzi was only 28 years old when appointed BIshop of Belluno by Pope Sixtus IV on 4 September 1471. On 14 March 1487, Barozzi was transferred to the diocese of Padua by Pope Innocent VIII. He died in 1507. Cappelletti X, p. 188. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica II, pp. 103, 210.
  53. [53]
    Rossi was a native of Parma, and was only 22 years of age when appointed Bishop of Belluno. He was therefore only "Administrator" during the first five years of his tenure. He completed the construction of the cathedral with its marble façade. On 16 Aug 1499, Rossi was appointed Bishop of Treviso by Pope Alexander VI. He died in 1527. Cappelletti X, p. 188. Eubel II, pp. 103 with note 5; 249.
  54. [54]
    Trevisan was a Venetian, the nephew of Cardinal Giovanni Michiel, who was the nephew of Pope Paul II. He was appointed on 26 August 1499. He died in Venice on 4 September 1509. Ughelli V, p. 165. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica II, p. 103 with note 6; III, p. 131 with note 2.
  55. [55]
    Gasparo Contarini, a native of Venice, was named a cardinal by Pope Paul III on 21 May 1535. He was appointed Bishop of Belluno on 23 October 1536, though he was not consecrated a bishop until 17 February 1538. On 7 January 1538, he was appointed to the commission to prepare the ecumenical council, and on 27 August 1540 he was appointed to the committee to reform the Roman Curia. On 21 May 1540 he was appointed papal Legate to the Diet of Speyer. On 7 November 1541, he was named papal Legate in Germany. On 21 January 1542, he was named papal Legate in Bologna. On 7 August 1542 he was appointed papal Legate to the Emperor Charles. He died in Bologna on 24 August 1542. Franz Dittrich (1885). Gasparo Contarini, 1483-1542: Eine Monographie (in German). Berlin: De Graaf. Franz Dittrich (1881). Regesten und Briefe des Cardinals Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) (in German). Braunsberg: Huye. pp. 1–7. Eubel III, p. 24, no. 8, with notes 5-6; 131. Elisabeth G. Gleason,Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and Reform, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
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    Giulio Contarini was the nephew of Cardinal Gasparo Contarini. He was appointed to succeed his uncle on 11 September 1542. On 28 June 1544, he still subscribed himself "bishop-elect". He attended the Council of Trent. In 1568, he established the diocesan seminar. On 17 November 1574, he was assigned a coadjutor, Giovanni Valier. Contarini died on 9 August 1575. Cappelletti X, p. 195. Eubel III, pp 131. Pier Mattia Tommasino (2018). The Venetian Qur'an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-8122-9497-2.
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    Valier was a native of Venice. On 17 November 1574, he was appointed titular bishop of Citrum in Macedonia and coadjutor bishop of Belluno by Pope Gregory XIII. He succeeded to the diocesan throne on 9 August 1575, upon the death of Bishop Contarini. He held a diocesan synod in 1575, and conducted diocesan visitations in 1575–1576 and 1583. He resigned in 1596, and returned to Venice, where he died at the age of 60, on 22 October 1598. Cappelletti X, p. 195. Eubel III, p. 131, 167. Flavio Vizzutti (1999). Le chiese dell'antica Pieve di Cadola: documenti di storia e d'arte (in Italian). Parrocchie di Cadola, Polpet-Ponte nelle Alpi, Col di Cugnan, Quantin, Diocesi di Belluno-Feltre. p. 303. Pier Mattia Tommasino (2018). The Venetian Qur'an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 88–90. ISBN 978-0-8122-9497-2.
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    Luigi Lollin was a Venetian aristocrat. He was named Bishop of Belluno by Pope Clement VIII on 29 July 1596. Lollin died on 28 (or 30) March 1625. Ughelli V, pp. 167-168. Cappelletti X, pp. 196-197. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 112 with note 2. L . Alpago Novello, "La vita e le opere di Luigi Lollino, vescovo di Belluno," Archivio veneto XIV (1933), pp. 15 – 116; XV (1934), pp. 199-304. (in Italian) A collection of Lollin's letters: Luigi Lollino (1642). Aloysii Lollini,... Epistolae miscellaneae. Belluno: typis Francisci Vieceri.
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