Diocese of Pinerolo - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The diocese of Pinerolo is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the province of Turin

Province of Turin

The Province of Turin is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin.It has an area of 6,830 km², and a total population of 2,277,686 . There are 315 comuni in the province – the most of any province in Italy...

of Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, Northern Italy

Italy

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. It is a suffragan of the archbishopric of Turin.

Ecclesiastical history

Pinerolo

Pinerolo is a town and comune in north-western Italy, 40 kilometres southwest of Turin on the river Chisone.-History:In the Middle Ages, the town of Pinerolo was one of the main crossroads in Italy, and was therefore one of the principal fortresses of the dukes of Savoy. Its military importance...

’s episcopal see was originally an abbey nullius. It was founded in 1064 by Adelaide, Princess of Susa, in Abbadia Alpina

Abbadia Alpina

Abbadia Alpina is a frazione of the commune of Pinerolo in the Province of Turin in north-west Italy, located between the torrents Lemina and Cusone....

. 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

Amadeus IV of Savoy

Amadeus IV was Count of Savoy from 1233 to 1253.The legitimate heir of Thomas I of Savoy and Margaret of Geneva, he had however to fight with his brothers for the inheritance of Savoy lands after their father's death...

exercised over the town a kind of protectorate which, in 1243, became absolute, and was exercised thereafter either by the house of Savoy

House of Savoy

The House of Savoy was formed in the early 11th century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 until the end of World War II, king of Croatia and King of Armenia...

.

Pinerolo was made a diocese in 1748, at the request of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia

Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia

Charles Emmanuel III was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 until his death.-Biography:...

, 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

Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...

(which dates from the ninth century, and has a beautiful campanile) and San Maurizio, a beautiful Gothic

Gothic architecture

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church, from the belfry of which there is a superb view of the Alps and of the sub-Alpine plain.

Province of Turin

Angrogna

Angrogna is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 45 km southwest of Turin.Angrogna borders the following municipalities: Perrero, Prali, Pramollo, San Germano Chisone, Prarostino, Villar Pellice, Bricherasio, Torre Pellice, and Luserna San...

S. Lorenzo

Bibiana

S. Marcellino

Bobbio Pellice

Bobbio Pellice is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 km southwest of Turin, on the border with France and at the end of the Val Pellice...

S. Maria Assunta

Bricherasio

Bricherasio is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin...

S. Maria Assunta

S. Michele (San Michele)

Buriasco

Buriasco is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 30 km southwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,353 and an area of 14.7 km²....

S. Michele

Nostra Signora del Buon Rimedio (Appendini)

Campiglione-Fenile

Campiglione-Fenile is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,334 and an area of 11.1 km²....

S. Giovanni Battista (Campiglione Fenile)

Santi Gervasio e Protasio (Fenile)

Cantalupa

Cantalupa is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 km southwest of Turin, at the feet of Monte Freidour.Cantalupa borders the following municipalities: Cumiana, Frossasco, and Roletto....

S. Maria Assunta

Fenestrelle

Fenestrelle is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 km west of Turin.It is home to the Fenestrelle Fort.-External links:*...

S. Luigi Ix

S. Giusto (Mentoulles)

Frossasco

Frossasco is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 km southwest of Turin....

S. Donato

Inverso Pinasca

Inverso Pinasca is a village and comune with c. 600 inhabitants in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin in the Val Chisone....

S. Francesco di Sales

Luserna San Giovanni

Luserna San Giovanni is a comune in the province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located in the Val Pellice about 45 km southwest of Turin....

S. Cuore di Gesù

S. Giacomo

S. Giovanni Battista

Lusernetta

Lusernetta is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 45 km southwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 508 and an area of 7.2 km²....

S. Antonio

Macello

Macello is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 35 km southwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,150 and an area of 14.1 km²....

S. Maria Maddalena

Osasco

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Natività di Maria Vergine

Perosa Argentina

Perosa Argentina is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin, in the val Chisone....

S. Genesio

S. Giuseppe

Perrero

Perrero is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 779 and an area of 63.4 km²....

S. Maria Maddalena

S. Martino (San Martino)

Invenzione di S. Croce (Trossieri)

Pinasca

Pinasca is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin in the Val Chisone....

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

Pomaretto is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 45 km southwest of Turin in the Valle Germanasca....

S. Nicolao

Porte

S. Michele

Pragelato

Pragelato is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 km west of Turin, in the upper Val Chisone. The name Pragelato, meaning ‘icy meadow’, has been derived from the harsh climate and the fact that the ground is covered with ice for long periods...

S. Maria Assunta (La Ruà)

S. Lorenzo (Traverses)

Prali

Prali is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 km southwest of Turin, on the border with France...

S. Lorenzo (Rodoretto)

S. Giovanni Battista (Villa di Rodoretto)

Pramollo

Pramollo is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin....

Natività di Maria Vergine (Rue)

Prarostino

Prarostino is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin, at the confluence of Val Chisone and Val Pellice.-External links:*...

S. Bartolomeo

Roletto

Roletto is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 35 km southwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,019 and an area of 9.8 km²....

Natività di Maria Vergine

Roure

S. Stefano (Castel del Bosco)

S. Giovanni Battista (Villaretto)

Salza di Pinerolo

Salza di Pinerolo is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 km southwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 73 and an area of 15.3 km²....

Natività di Maria Vergine

San Germano Chisone

San Germano Chisone is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin...

S. Germano

S. Carlo Borromeo (Inverso Porte)

San Pietro Val Lemina

San Pietro Val Lemina is a town and comune in the Italian province of Turin, part of the Piedmont region.- External links :* *...

Santi Pietro e Paolo

San Secondo di Pinerolo

San Secondo di Pinerolo is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin....

S. Secondo

S. Maria Assunta (Miradolo)

Torre Pellice

Torre Pellice is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 45 km southwest of Turin. It is crossed by the Pellice river....

S. Martino

Usseaux

Usseaux is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 km west of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 190 and an area of 38.5 km²....

S. Pietro

Villar Pellice

Villar Pellice is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 km southwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,213 and an area of 60.9 km²....

S. Maurizio

Villar Perosa

Villar Perosa is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin....

S. Pietro in Vincoli

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