The archdiocese of Pesaro is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in central Italy

Italy

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. Its see at Pesaro

Pesaro

Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. According to the 2007 census, its population was 92,206....

 was elevated in status to archiepiscopal see in 2000. Its suffragans are the diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola and the archdiocese of Urbino-Urbania-Sant'Angelo in Vado.

History

The first bishop, St. Florentius, is said to have governed this see in the middle of the second century, while the bishop, St. Decentius, according to tradition, suffered martyrdom under Diocletian

Diocletian

Diocletian |latinized]] upon his accession to Diocletian . c. 22 December 244  – 3 December 311), was a Roman Emperor from 284 to 305....

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Bishop Heradianus was at the Council of Sardica

Council of Sardica

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 in 343. Other bishops were:

• Germanus, who went with Cresconius di Todi to Constantinople in 497 as legate of Pope Anastasius II
  Pope Anastasius II
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  ;
• Felix, whom Gregory the Great brought to trial;
• Maximus (649);
• Benenatus, a legate to the Sixth General Council (680);
• Stabilinus (769);
• Adelberto (998), founder of the monastery of S. Tommaso in Folgia, where Pope Clement II
  Pope Clement II
  Pope Clement II , was Pope from December 25, 1046 to his death. He was the first in a series of reform-minded popes from Germany.Born in Hornburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, he was the son of Count Konrad of Morsleben and Hornburg and his wife Amulrad.In 1040, he became Bishop of Bamberg...
  
   died in 1047;
• Pietro (1070), who was deposed, being a partisan of the schism of Frederick Barbarossa;
• Bartolomeo (1218);
• Omodio (1346);
• Biagio Geminelli (1354);
• Leale Malatesta (1370);
• Cardinal Antonio Casini (1406);
• Giulio Simonetti (1560), was at the Council of Trent
  Council of Trent
  The Council of Trent was the 16th-century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. It is considered to be one of the Church's most important councils. It convened in Trent between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods...
  
  , and founded the seminary;
• Gian Lucido Palombara (1658), consecrated the new cathedral;
• Umberto Radicati (1742;
• Cardinal Gennaro Antonio de' Simoni (1775);
• Andrea Mastai-Ferretti (1806).