Diocese of Pistoi

The diocese’s jurisdiction includes 161 parishes in the communes of Tuscany : in the provinces of Pistoia , Prato and Florence .

The bishop's chair is located in the city of Pistoia in the church of St. Zeno .

All parishes of the Diocese of Pisto are united in 10 dean's offices .

The Diocese of Pistoia was founded according to the tradition of Saint Romulus, bishop sent by the apostle Peter himself to Tuscany. After the first bishop, the department was occupied by 21 bishops , unknown by name or by the date of the priesthood. The structure of the diocese took shape between the 3rd and 5th centuries .

Bishop Restaldo at the end of the 6th century was the bishop following Holy Romulus, whose name is preserved in history. Initially, the Diocese of Pistoi was directly subordinate to the Holy See .

In the Middle Ages, Bishop Pistoi played an important political role in the city administration. In 1320, Pope John XXII was deposed by Bishop Ermanno degli Anastasi, accused of patronizing the White Guelph party.

On May 10, 1419, the diocese became part of the metropolis of Florence.

In 1471, Bishop Donato de Medici established a pawnshop.

On September 22, 1653, Pope Innocent X's Diocese of Pisto's Redemptoris nostri bull was put in common control with Prato's Diocese.

In 1690, a diocesan seminary was established, expanded in 1720 and moved to a new premises in 1783 .

On September 19, 1786, under the bishop of Spyon de Ricci, a city council was opened in the city, which ended on September 28. At this council, the bishop contributed to the reform of the liturgy in the spirit of Jansenism , as well as a similar reform of education, administration, doctrine, tried to ban the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus . The cathedral was almost led to the split of the whole of Tuscany. In 1790 , during the absence of the bishop, the Pistoi and Prato chapters abolished the decrees of the local cathedral. After 6 years after a thorough investigation by the bulla Auctorem Fidei of Pope Pius VI, 85 theses of this council were condemned. After condemnation, Bishop Shpione de Ricci, who returned to the diocese in 1791 , abandoned his theses and presented everything to the pontiff .

On January 25, 1954, Pope Pius XII divided the diocese of Prato and the diocese of Pistoia with the bull Clerus populusque .

Pistoi Department

• St. Romolo (I) also the Bishop of Fiesole;
• 21 unknown Bishop (I - V);
• Restaldo I ( 594 - 600 );
• Nessorio ( 623 );
• Trachcha ( 626 );
• Theodato ( 641 );
• Padetto ( 668 );
• Nestorio ( 683 );
• Vegesaldo ( 698 );
• Giovanni I ( 700 - 716 );
• Felice ( 722 );
• Theodosio ( 730 );
• Licinio ( 754 );
• Abbondio ( 762 );
• Giovanni II ( 772 );
• Benedetto ( 786 );
• Guillerrado (801-812);
• Lamprendo ( 826 );
• Gvasprando ( 844 );
• Oscizio ( 853 - 871 );
• Asterio ( 904-937 );
• Uberto ( 937 );
• Raymbaldo ( 940 );
• Giovanni III ( 951–985 );
• Antonino ( 985-1011 );
• Guido I ( 1012-1012 );
• Restaldo II ( 1012-1023 );
• Guido II ( 1024-1042 );
• Martino ( 1043-1057 );
  • Sede vacante ( 1057-1067 );
• Leone ( 1067-1085 );
• Pietro Guidi (15.1. 1086 - 8.1. 1107 ) - vallombrosian;
• Ildebrando Guidi ( 1107 - 1133 ) - Vallombrosian;
• Saint Atto ( 1133 - 21.6. 1153 ) - Vallombrosian;
• Tracho ( 1154 - 1166 );
• Rinaldo ( 1167 - 5.5. 1189 );
• Buono ( 1189 - 28.1. 1208 );
• Soffredo Soffredi I ( 1208 - 14.12. 1210 );
• Soffredo Soffredi II ( 1211 );
• Graziano Berlingieri ( 1223 - 7.1. 1250 );
• Guidaloste Verdolesi ([20.6. 1252 - 21.2. 1286 );
• Tommaso Andrei ( 1286 - 29.7. 1303 );
• Bartholomino Dzhontonchini Sinizbuldi (2.11. 1303 - 4.12. 1307 ) - was appointed Bishop of Foligno;
• Ermanno degli Anastasi (4.12. 1307 - 15.8. 1321 );
• Baronto Richchardi (19.2. 1322 - 1348 );
• Andrea Chantiori (21.10. 1349 - 19.9. 1356 );
• Remigiy (26.4. 1357 - 1370 ) - Augustinian;
• Giovanni Vivenzi (5.7. 1370 - 1381 ) - was appointed Bishop of Cervia;
• Blessed Andrea Franchi ( 1381 - 1400 ) - Dominican;
• Matteo Diamanti (11.3. 1400 - 12.12. 1425 );
• Ubertino Albitsi (15.5. 1426 - 1434 ) - Dominican;
• Donato de Medici (22.6. 1436 - 1474 );
• Niccolò Pandolfini (23.12. 1474 - 17.9. 1518 );
• Lorenzo Pucci (17.9. 1518 - 5.11. 1518 ) - the cardinal;
• Antonio Pucci (5.11. 1518 - 8.8. 1541 ) - the cardinal;
• Roberto Pucci (8.8. 1541 - 7.12. 1546 ) - appointed Bishop of Melfi and Rapolla;
• Francesco da Galliano (16.1. 1547 - 10.12. 1559 );
• Giovanbattista Ricasoli (14.2. 1560 - 21.2. 1572 );
• Alessandro di Ottaviano de Medici (9.3. 1573 - 15.1. 1574 ) - was appointed Archbishop of Florence, then elected Pope under the name of Leo XI;
• Ludovico Antinori (15.1. 1574 - 2.12. 1575 ) - was appointed Archbishop of Pisa;
• Lattanzio Lattanzi (2.12. 1575 - 11.12. 1587 );
• Ottavio Abbiosi (11.12. 1587 - 1599 );
• Fulvio Passerini (19.4. 1599 - 11.12. 1599 );
• Alessandro de Caccia (3.7. 1600 - 4.9. 1649 );
• Francesco Nerl (14.2. 1650 - 16.12. 1652 ) - was appointed Archbishop of Florence.

Pistoi and Prato Chair

• Giovanni Jerini (22.9. 1653 - 18.5. 1656 );
• Francesco Rinuccini (28.8. 1656 - 11.3. 1678 );
• Gerardo Gerardi ( 1679 - 16.1. 1690 );
• Leone Building (16.8. 1690 - 7.7. 1700 ) - Vallombrosian, appointed Archbishop of Florence;
• Francesco Frosini ( 1700 - 1.1. 1701 ) - appointed by the Archbishop of Pisa;
• Carlo Visdomini Kortidzhani (22.11. 1702 - 14.10. 1713 );
• Colombino Bassi (29.3. 1715 - 11.4. 1732 ) - Vallombrosian;
• Federico Alamanni (21.7. 1732 - 1776 );
• Giuseppe Ippoliti (15.4. 1776 - 22.3. 1780 );
• Shpione de Ricci (19.6. 1780 - 13.6. 1791 );
• Francesco Falki Pikkinesi (December 19, 1791 - 10.2. 1803 );
• Francesco Toli (28.3. 1803 - 6.6. 1833 );
• Angelo Maria Gilardoni (23.6. 1834 - 24.5. 1835 );
• Jovan Battista Rossi (2.10. 1837 - 16.2. 1849 );
• Leone Niccolai (5.11. 1849 - 13.7. 1857 ) - Carthusian;
  • Sede vacante (1857 - 1867);
• Enrico Bindi (27.3. 1867 - 27.10. 1871 ) - appointed by the Archbishop of Siena;
• Niccolo Sotstsifanti (27.10. 1871 - 1.2. 1883 );
• Donato Velluti Zati (15.3. 1883 - 27.3. 1885 ) - appointed titular Bishop of Oropus;
• Marcello Mazzanti (27.3. 1885 - 18.8. 1908 );
• Andrea Sarti (29.4. 1909 - 7.10. 1915 );
• Gabriele Vettori (6.12. 1915 - 6.2. 1932 ) - appointed by the Archbishop of Pisa;
• Giuseppe Debernardi (13.3. 1933 - 19.9. 1953 ).

Pistoi Department

• Mario Longo Dorni (24.4. 1954 - 18.8. 1985 );
• Simone Skatitstsi (27.5. 1981 - 4.11. 2006 );
• Mansueto Bianchi (November 4, 2006 - April 5, 2014).
• Fausto Tardelli (since 10.10.2014)

At the end of 2004, from 217 515 people living in the territory of the diocese, Catholics were 000 people, which corresponds to 98.8% of the total population of the diocese.

• Annuario pontificio for 2005 and previous years on the site [1] , page [2]
• Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica , vol. LIII, Venezia 1851, pp. 285-295
• Bull Redemptoris nostri , in Bullarum diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum Romanorum pontificum Taurinensis editio , Vol. XV, pp. 727–731 (lat.)
• Bolla Clerus populusque , ASS 46 (1954), p. 390 (lat.)
• Schede storiche delle parrocchie della Diocesi di Pistoia , a cura di Natale Rauty, Pistoia: Cancelleria vescovile, 1986, p. 37-143
• Bruna Bocchini Camaiani, I vescovi toscani nel periodo lorenese
• Giuseppe Maria Guidi, Vita del beato fra Andrea Franchi , Pistoia 1714, pp. 17–18, 98, 102
• Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, pp. 750–751 (lat.)
• Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi , vol. 1 , pp. 400–401; vol. 2 , p. 258; vol. 3 , p. 275; vol. 4 , p. 281 (lat.)
• The official website of the diocese
• Biography of Niccolò Pandolfini (English)
• Biography of Lorenzo Pucci (English)
• Biography of Antonio Pucci (eng.)
• Biography of Roberto Pucci (eng.)
• Borders of the Diocese at gcatholic.org

• Pistoia
• Cathedral of St. Zeno (Pistoia)