Roman Catholic Diocese of Pavia

Diocese of Pavia Dioecesis Papiensis
Pavia Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Milan
Statistics
Area	782 km2 (302 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 161,562 158,711 (98.2%)
Parishes	99
Information
Rite	Roman
Established	1st Century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di Maria Assunta e S. Stefano Protomartire
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Giovanni Giudici
Website
www.diocesi.pavia.it

The Diocese of Pavia (Latin: Dioecesis Papiensis) is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan. The diocese has produced one Pope and Patriarch of Venice, and three cardinals.

The diocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its bishop is the Cattedrale di Maria Assunta e S. Stefano Protomartire. The current Bishop of Pavia is Giovanni Giudici, appointed by Pope John Paul II on 1 December 2003.

List of bishops of Pavia (incomplete)

Saint Syrus (283 - 339) Saint Pompeius (339 - 353) Saint Juventius (353 - 392) Saint Urciscenus (410 - 433) Saint Crispin (433 - 467) Saint Epiphanius (467 - 499) Saint Maximus (499 - 514) Saint Ennodius (514 - 521) Saint Anastasius (ca. 658 - 680) Saint Damian (680 - 710) Saint Armentarius (710 - 722) Saint Peter (722 - 736) Saint Theodore (ca. 740 - 778) Saint Jerome (778 - 791) Waldo of Reichenau (791 - 805?, acting, but apparently never consecrated) Saint John (813 - 826) Pietro Canepanova (971 - 983), later Pope John XIV Saint Fulk (1217 - 1229) Giovanni Castiglione (died 14 April 1460); cardinal from December 1456)

Ascanio Sforza (1479 - 1505) Francesco Alidosius (1505 - 1511) Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte (1511 - 1516) Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte (1521 - 1530), later Pope Julius III Saint Alexander Sauli B. (1591 - 1592) Carlo Durini (1753 - 1769) Paolo Lamberto D'Allègre (1807 - 1821) Angelo Ramazzotti (1850 - 1858) Pietro Maria Ferrè (1860 - 1867) Lucido Maria Parocchi (1871 - 1877) Agostino Gaetano Riboldi (1877 - 1901) Francesco Ciceri (1901 - 1924) Giuseppe Ballerini (1924 - 1933) Giovanni Battista Girardi (1934 - 1942) Carlo Allorio (1942 - 1968) Antonio Giuseppe Angioni (1968 - 1986) Giovanni Volta (1986 - 2003) Giovanni Giudici (2003–present)

Parishes

The diocese’s 99 parishes are all located in the (civil) region Lombardy: 97 in the Province of Pavia and 2 in the Province of Milan.

External links

• Official site
• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Giga-Catholic Information
•  "Diocese of Pavia". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.