The Archdiocese of Fermo is a Roman Catholic territory in northern Italy, with the episcopal see in the city of Fermo

Fermo

Fermo is a town and comune of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo.Fermo is located on a hill, the Sabulo with a fine view, on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway....

, Marche

Marche

The population density in the region is below the national average. In 2008, it was 161.5 inhabitants per km2, compared to the national figure of 198.8. It is highest in the province of Ancona , and lowest in the province of Macerata...

. It was established as the Diocese of Fermo in the 3rd century and elevated to an archdiocese on 24 May 1589. As of 2004, it included 269,953 baptized inhabitants.

Its includes the following suffragan dioceses:

• Ascoli Piceno
• Camerino-San Severino Marche
• Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia
• San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto

The current titular is Luigi Conti.

History

Boniface IX established a university there.

Local legend attributes the first preaching of the Gospel at Fermo to Saint Apollinarius and Saint Maro.

Bishops

• Alexander (3rd century) - His martyrdom, with seventy companions, is placed in the persecution of Decius
  Decius
  Trajan Decius , was Roman Emperor from 249 to 251. In the last year of his reign, he co-ruled with his son Herennius Etruscus until they were both killed in the Battle of Abrittus.-Early life and rise to power:...
  
   (250)
• St. Philip (3rd century) - His martyrdom is placed under Aurelian
  Aurelian
  Aurelian , was Roman Emperor from 270 to 275. During his reign, he defeated the Alamanni after a devastating war. He also defeated the Goths, Vandals, Juthungi, Sarmatians, and Carpi. Aurelian restored the Empire's eastern provinces after his conquest of the Palmyrene Empire in 273. The following...
  
   (270-75)
• Alberto (1301 - ?)
• Lorenzo Lenti  (1549 - 1571)
• Felice Peretti Montalto
  Pope Sixtus V
  Pope Sixtus V , born Felice Peretti di Montalto, was Pope from 1585 to 1590.-Early life:The chronicler Andrija Zmajević states that Felice's family originated from modern-day Montenegro...
  
    (1571 - 24 April 1585, elected pope as Sixtus V
• Domenico Pinelli  (1577 - 1584)
• Sigismondo Zanettini  (1584 - 1589)

Archbishops

• Sigismondo Zanettini  (1589 - 1594)
• Ottavio Bandini  (29 June 1595 - 10 April 1606, resigned)
• Alessandro Strozzi  (1606 - 1621)
• Pietro Dini  (1621 - 1625)
• Giovanni Battista Rinuccini
  Giovanni Battista Rinuccini
  Giovanni Battista Rinuccini was a Roman Catholic archbishop in the mid seventeenth century. He was a noted legal scholar who became chamberlain to Pope Gregory XV, who made him the Archbishop of Fermo in Italy...
  
    (1625 - 1653)
• Carlo Gualterio
  Carlo Gualterio
  Carlo Gualterio was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.-Biography:Gualterio was born at Orvieto. Among his relatives, Silvio Antoniani was cardinal and Sebastiano Gualterio had been Bishop of Viterbo, Papal Nuncio to France and the Council of Trent...
  
    (1654 - 1668)
• Giannotto Gualterio  (1668 - 1683)
• G. Francesco Ginetti  (1684 - 1691)
• Baldassarre Cenci  (1697 - 1709)
• Girolamo Mattei
  Girolamo Mattei
  Girolamo Mattei was an Italian Cardinal from the House of Mattei.Mattei was born 8 February 1547, the son of Alessandro Mattei and Emilia Mazzatosta. He was the younger brother of Ciriaco Mattei and the older brother of Asdrubale Mattei, Marquis di Giove...
  
    (1712 - 1724)
• Alessandro Borgia  (1724 - 1764)
• Urbano Paracciani Rutili  (9 July 1764 - 2 January 1777, died in office)
• Andrea Antonio Silverio Minucci  (20 September 1779 - 1803)
• Cesare Brancadoro  (11 July 1803 - 12 September 1837, died in office)
• Gabriele Ferretti
  Gabriele Ferretti
  Gabriele Ferretti was an Italian Catholic Cardinal and Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals.-Personal life:Ferretti was born on 31 January 1795 in Ancona....
  
    (2 October 1837 - 12 January 1842, resigned)
• Filippo de Angelis
  Filippo de Angelis
  Filippo de Angelis was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as both Archbishop of Fermo from 1842 and Camerlengo from 1867 until his death. Angelis was elevated to the cardinalate in 1839.-Biography:...
  
    (27 January 1842 - 8 July 1877, died in office)
• Amilcare Malagola
  Amilcare Malagola
  Amilcare Malagola was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, and was archbishop of Fermo 1877–1895.He was made cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1893....
  
    (21 September 1877 - 22 June 1895, died in office)
• Roberto Papiri  (1895 - 1906, died in office)
• Carlo Castelli  (14 July 1906 - 8 February 1933, died in office)
• Ercole Attuoni  (16 March 1933 - 1941, died in office)
• Norberto Perini  (22 October 1941 - 1976, retired)
• Cleto Bellucci
  Cleto Bellucci
  Cleto Bellucci is an Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church.Cleto Bellucci was born in Ancona, Italy ordained a priest on January 27, 1946. Bellucci was appointed auxiliary archbishop of the Diocese of Taranto on March 15, 1969 as well as titular bishop of Melzi and ordained bishop on May 14, 1969...
  
   (21 June 1976 succeduto - 18 June 1997, retired)
• Benito Gennaro Franceschetti (18 June 1997 - 4 February 2005, died in office)
• Luigi Conti (13 April 2006 - present)