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The Diocese of Gubbio  |  The bishop: Mons. Pietro Bottaccioli |  The letter of greeting from the bishop |  Museum of the Diocese  
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 The Diocese of Gubbio

The Diocese of Gubbio, with a territory of about 907 square chilometres and about 48 thousand inhavitants, includes the comunes of Gubbio, Cantiano, Scheggia, and the capital of the comune of Umbertide. It confines with the dioceses of Assisi-Nocera, Umbria-Gualdo Tadino, Perugia-Cittą della Pieve, Fano-Fossombrone, Cagli-Pergola.
The famous letter of pope Innocenzo I, written in 416 to Decenzio, bishop of Gubbio, a century from the proclamation of Costantino, present an organization already formed, and proving its most antique origin. Another document which proves its prestige is the Letter of pope St. Gregorio Magno, between 598 and 599 to the bishop Gaudioso.
At the beginning of the second millenium the silence which ruled in the following centuries was interrupted by the documentation of the influence which the Eremo of St.Croce of Fonte Avellana, centre of spirituality and culture, illustrated by St. Pier Damiani, had on the religious life of the Diocese. In the reformatory spirit of St.Pier Damiani, the bisho Ubaldo Baldassini (1129-1160), the greatest of all bishops in Gubbio, canonized by Celestino III in 1192, and the most famous, devoted himself incessantly to the restoration of the comunal life of the clergy and the consolidation of the ecclesiastical institutions and for the composition of arguments in the matters of the City.
The influence of Fonte Avellana is entwined with the Franciscan influence in 1200.
St.Francis came to Gubbio immediately after the conversion and he passed here many times in his life. The "Fioretti" immortalized the relationships between St. Francis and Gubbio with the famous episode of St.Francis and the wolf.
In the modern period Gubbio counts its great bishops Marcello Cervini (1544-1555), who was then pope Marcello II: of him we remember his diocese synod of 1549 which anticipated the tridentine reform.
Presently the Diocese is divided in 40 parishes composed of six pastoral zones. Prepared since 1994, the Diocese celebrated the Synod in 1996, published later in 1997: "for a church which announces, celebrates and testifies the Gospel of Charity". It adjourns the Synod of 1952 celebrated by Mons. Beniamino Ubaldi, stating the action of the Church according to the new pastoral necessities in a modified cultural situation of the society.
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 The bishop: Mons. Pietro Bottaccioli

Presently the bishop of Gubbio is Mons. Pietro Bottaccioli, born in Umbertide on the 15th February 1928, entered in the seminary on the 17th October 1938. He has a degree in canonical law from the Lateranese Pontifical University; he became priest on the 1st October 1950.
He was priest of St. Martino of Gubbio and then of Cristo Risorto of Umbertide. He was on the side of the bishop of Gubbio, Beniamino Ubaldi (1932-65), he was his chaperon and secretary during the first three cessions of the Vatican Council II.
He was Superior before the Diocesan Seminary and then the Regional one.
He was elected bishop on the 26th April 1989, consacrated in the Cathedral of Gubbio on the 16th May 1989.
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 The letter of greeting from the bishop

      The bishop of Gubbio is pleased to have the opportunity, offered by the Association "Eugubini in the world", to send a warm greeting to all the eugubinians far away.

    It is not a greeting from a stranger, but a greeting from a successor of St. Ubaldo, in whose name we feel united spiritually, even if we are dispersed in all parts of the world.

    With the greeting, I send my warm blessing: hoping that you will be honoured to be eugubinians and christians wherever you are, bringing reconciliation and solidarity, worthy of co-citizen and Father.

                                                                               Pietro Bottaccioli
                                                                             (Bishop of Gubbio)

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 Museum of the Diocese


Visit the official web site of the museum of the diocese
www.museogubbio.org


The museum is in the elegant Canonical building of the cathedral.
This building was built in the first half of 1200, next to the Cathedral, to receive, in comunal life, the priests of the Duomo. The Palazzo can easily be reached even with the public elevators which join the bottom part of the Palazzo of the Comune with the garden of the Cathedral.

Presently it holds an exceptional collection of works of art which illustrates the bimilleniary story of the eugubinian Diocese.
The Museum has various halls where there are: a collection of the "Lapidi" plates of roman and medieval period, paintings and sculptures of the 1200 and 1300, works of 1400 and of 1500 period.

On the ground floor there is the famous "Barrel of the Canonici". It is an enormous barrel of 1500, built without metal rings, in fact the wooden planks are kept together by interlaced beams.

It contains 387 barrels!
A popular saying says: "a barrel a day and two for the commanded feasts".
A "barrel", in Gubbio, is the equivalent of 50 litres!




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 The Bishops of Gubbio

416 Decenzio
590 Gaudioso
769 Fiorentino
847 Erfone
861 Domenico
900 Leuderico
921 Pietro
968 Giovanni
10.. B.Lodolfo Giuliano
1032 Tebaldo
1057 Guido
1060 Pietro
1064 S.Rodolfo
1065 Ubaldo
1070 Mainardo
1075 Ugo
1076 Domenico
1097 Rustico
1105 S.Giovanni da Lodi
1106 Giovanni
1126 Stefano
1129 - 1160 S.Ubaldo
1160 Teobaldo
1163 - 1164 Bonatto
1197 Gualfredo
1184 Offredo
1185 - 1194 Bentivoglio
1195 - 1200 Marco
1200 - 1205 Alberto
1206 - 1238 B. Villano
1240 - 1276 Giacomo
1278 - 1276 Benvenuto
1295 - 1302 Ventura
1302 - 1326 Francesco
1326 - 1345 Pietro Gabrielli
1346 - 1350 Vesiano
1350 - 1370 Fra Giovanni
1370 - 1377 Giovanni
1377 - 1383 Gabriele
1384 - 1390 Lorenzo
1390 - 1400 Bertrando
1401 - 1405 Fr. Matteo
1406 - 1443 Francesco
1444 - 1472 Antonio Severi
1472 - 1482 Leonardo Grifo
1482 - 1492 Girolamo Della Rovere
1492 - 1504 Francesco della Rovere
1504 - 1508 Antonio Ferreri
1508 - 1541 Federico Fregoso
1541 - 1544 Pietro Bembo
1544 - 1555 Marcello Cervini (Papa Marcello II)
1555 - 1561 Giacomo Savelli
1561 - 1599 Mariano Savelli
1600 - 1616 Andrea Sorbolonghi
1616 - 1628 Alessandro Del Monte
1628 - 1630 Pietro Carpegna
1630 - 1639 Ulderico Carpegna
1639 - 1643 Grazio Monaldi
1644 - 1672 Alessandro Sperelli
1672 - 1690 Carlo Vincenzo Toti
1690 - 1706 Sebastiano Pompilio Bonaventura
1707 - 1725 Fabio Manciforte
1725 - 1747 Sostegno Maria Cavalli
1747 - 1768 Giacomo Cingari
1768 - 1785 Paolo Orefici
1785 - 1808 Ottavio Angelelli
1814 - 1821 Mario Ancaiani
1821 - 1841 Vincenzo Massi
1841 - 1855 Giuseppe Pecci
1855 - 1891 Innocenze Sannibale
1891 - 1896 Luigi Lazzareschi
1896 - 1900 Macario Sorini
1900 - 1906 Angelo Maria Dolci
1906 - 1916 Giovanni Battista Nasalli Rocca
1917 - 1920 Carlo Taccetti
1921 - 1932 Pio Leonardo Navarra
1932 - 1965 Beniamino Ubaldi
1972 - 1981 Cesare Pagani
1982 - 1988 Ennio Antonelli
1989 - ...... Pietro Bottaccioli
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