Bishop Dionysius was a vigorous supporter of the schism of the Bishop of Parma, Cadalo, who called himself Honorius II. Dionisio was deposed by Pope Alexander II in 1067, and expelled by the people of Piacenza, with the encouragement of the authorities of Cremona. He became the leading figure in the anti-reform party in the Church in Lombardy. He was again deposed by Pope Gregory VII at the Roman synod of 24–28 February 1075. Kehr, pp. 446-447, nos. 20-24. Ian Robinson (2004). The Papal Reform of the Eleventh Century: Lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII. Manchester England UK: Manchester University Press. p. 37. ISBN978-0-7190-3875-4.
Aldo was a native of Gubbio. He was consecrated by Pope Urban II. Bishop Aldo participated in the First Crusade. From 5–7 April 1098 Bishop Aldo participated in the reform synod of Archbishop Anselm of Milan. Emilia was temporarily taken from the jurisdiction of Ravenna during his episcopacy, due to the schism which had been perpetrated by Archbishop Wibert of Ravenna, antipope Clement III. In 1115 he signed a grant to the church of S. Eufemia in Piacenza. He was present at the consecration of the cathedral of Genoa on 18 October 1118. Campi, I, pp. 372-391. Cappelletti, pp. 27-28. Gams, p. 746. Schwartz, p. 195. Vincenzo Pancotti (1922). Aldo, vescovo di Piacenza: (nell'ottavo centenario della Cattedrale) (in Italian). Piacenza: Unione tipografica piacentina. E. Nasalli Rocca, "Aldo vescovo di Piacenza," in: Il duomo di Piacenza (1122–1972), pp. 133-144.
A priest of Bologna, Gigli had been Bishop of Sora from 1561 until 1576, though He was named Treasurer General of the Holy Roman Church on 25 May 1572 by Pope Gregory XIII; he held the post until 29 December 1576, and therefore was resident in Rome, not in Sora, during that period. He was appointed Bishop of Piacenza on 12 November 1576. He died in 1578. Gaetano Moroni, ed. (1855). Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da s. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Vol. LXXIII (Tem-Tes). Venice: dalla Tipografia Emiliana. p. 291. Eubel, III, pp. 275, 302.
A native of Modena and a member of the family of the Counts of Rangoni, Rangoni was a Referendary of the Two Signatures (appellate judge) in the Roman Curia. He was appointed Bishop of Piacenza on 2 December 1596 by Pope Clement VIII. Rangoni took possession of the diocese by proxy on 19 December 1596. He made his solemn entry into the city on 23 March 1597. He died on 13 September 1619. Ughelli, II, p. 237. Anton-Domenico Rossi (1832). Ristretto di Storia Patria ad Uso De' Piacentini (in Italian). Vol. Tomo IV. Piacenza: Torchi del Majno. p. 109. Eubel, III, p. 275. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 281.
Scappi was a native of Bologna, the son of Senator Mario Scappi, and held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure. He was appointed Bishop of Campagna e Satriano on 12 February 1618. He was papal Nuncio to Switzerland from 1621 to 1628. On 17 May 1627, Pope Urban VIII transferred him to the diocese of Piacenza. He held two diocesan synods, and introduced the Discalced Carmelites and the Barnabites into the city of Piacenza. Ughelli, pp. 237-238 (who places his death in 1654). Gauchat, pp. 131 with note 3; 281 with note 4 (who says that Scappi died in 1650). Noel Malcolm (2007). Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes. Oxford England UK: Clarendon Press. pp. 194, note 2. ISBN978-0-19-921593-5. Anton Domenico Rossi (1832). Ristretto di Storia Patria ad Uso De' Piacentini (in Italian). Vol. Tomo IV. Piacenza: Torchi del Maino. p. 230. places Scappi's death on 20 June 1653. Cappelletti, p. 53, places the date of death on 20 June 1650.
Sources: Annuario Pontificio (2007) and Archivio dell'Istituto Centrale per il sostentamento del clero (2008, updated monthly), as cited by CCI (2008), Diocesi di Piacenza - Bobbio, Chiesa Cattolica Italiana, archived from the original on 2003-09-05, retrieved 2008-03-16.
Source for parishes: CCI (2008), Parrocchie, Chiesa Cattolica Italiana, archived from the original on 2008-03-14, retrieved 2008-03-16. Two more parishes were closed in 2016. The correct number is now (2018) 420 parishes.
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Ambrosio was born in Santhià (Vercelli) in 1943. He was ordained in 1968, and sent to Rome for a degree in theology; he studied at the Institut Catholique in Paris and obtained a licenciate in social sciences. He obtained a diploma in the sociology of religion from the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne). He taught the sociology of religion at the Facoltà teologica dell' Italia Settentrionale. From 2001 to 2008 he was general ecclesiastical assistant at the Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan). He was named bishop of Piacenza-Bobbio on 22 December 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI, and was consecrated in Vercelli by Archbishop Albino Mensa. Il portale della diocesi di Piacenza-Bobbio, Mons. Gianni Ambrosio; retrieved: 7 November 2018. (in Italian)
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This was effected by Gregory V's bull of 7 July 997, Divinae remunerationis: A. Tomasetti (ed.), Bullarum, diplomatum et privilegiorum Sanctorum Romanorum Pontificum Taurensis EditioTomus I (Turin: Seb. Franco et Henrico Dalmazzo 1857), pp. 468-469 (in Latin).
Giovanni Filagato was a native of Rossano in Calabria, a monk of Montecassino, advisor of the Empress Theophane, wife of the Emperor Otto II, and tutor of the Emperor Otto III. had been Coadjutor bishop for Bishop Sigulfus from 982 to 988, when Sigulfus died. He was then Bishop of Piacenza in his own right until February or March 997, when he was made pope by Crescentius II Nomentanus under the title of Pope John XVI. Crescentius had recently led an uprising against Pope Gregory V, the cousin of the Emperor Otto III. The Synod of Pavia in 997 condemned, deposed, and excommunicated John, who was captured, mutilated and imprisoned in 998. A synod was held in Rome by Gregory V in May 998, and John was formally deposed. "Graecus Joannes" died at the monastery of Fulda on 2 April 1013, according to the Necrology of Fulda Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores Volume XIII (Hannover: Hahn 1881), p. 210) . T. De Luca, "Giovanni Filagato," in Almanacco Calabrese (Rome 1955), pp. 81-92. (in Italian) Wolfgang Huschner, "Giovanni XVI, antipapa,"Enciclopedia dei Papi (2000). (in Italian) Schwartz, p. 189.
Stefano Fallot de Beaumont, as he was known in Italy, was a native of Avignon, born in 1750. He held the licenciate in Civil and Canon Law from the University of Avignon (1774), and was a Canon of the Cathedral Chapter of Agde. He had been titular Bishop of Sebastopolis and Coadjutor Bishop of Viason, consecrated in Rome in 1782 by Cardinal Henry Stuart. He was transferred to the diocese of Gand May 1802, and then to Piacenza on 3 August 1807. He did not perform episcopal functions, however, until 28 March 1808, because he had not yet received his bulls of institution. He was present at the national council of Paris (1810). On 14 April 1813, the Emperor Napoleon I announced that he was promoting Fallot de Beaumont to the archbishopric of Bourges, and was naming the Vicar General of Turin, Pietro Marentini, to succeed him in Piacenza. Neither appointment, however, received papal approbation. From 1814, the diocese of Piacenza was actually administered by the Vicar Lodovico Loschi. Fallot de Beaumont finally resigned formally on 8 April 1817. Cappelletti, p. 63-66. U. Benigni & C.F.W. Brown (1911), "Piacenza," in The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved December 11, 2012 from New Advent. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, pp. 371, 433; VII, p. 202, 309.
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T. De Luca, "Giovanni Filagato," in Almanacco Calabrese (Rome 1955), pp. 81-92. (in Italian) Wolfgang Huschner, "Giovanni XVI, antipapa,"Enciclopedia dei Papi (2000). (in Italian): Dopo la morte del vescovo Sigolfo di Piacenza nel 988, G. fu chiamato a succedergli, scavalcando un altro candidato che forse era già stato eletto. Inoltre Teofane ottenne da papa Giovanni XV che Piacenza venisse sottratta alla provincia ecclesiastica di Ravenna e diventasse sede metropolitica. Kehr, p. 52, no. 165.
Giovanni Filagato was a native of Rossano in Calabria, a monk of Montecassino, advisor of the Empress Theophane, wife of the Emperor Otto II, and tutor of the Emperor Otto III. had been Coadjutor bishop for Bishop Sigulfus from 982 to 988, when Sigulfus died. He was then Bishop of Piacenza in his own right until February or March 997, when he was made pope by Crescentius II Nomentanus under the title of Pope John XVI. Crescentius had recently led an uprising against Pope Gregory V, the cousin of the Emperor Otto III. The Synod of Pavia in 997 condemned, deposed, and excommunicated John, who was captured, mutilated and imprisoned in 998. A synod was held in Rome by Gregory V in May 998, and John was formally deposed. "Graecus Joannes" died at the monastery of Fulda on 2 April 1013, according to the Necrology of Fulda Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores Volume XIII (Hannover: Hahn 1881), p. 210) . T. De Luca, "Giovanni Filagato," in Almanacco Calabrese (Rome 1955), pp. 81-92. (in Italian) Wolfgang Huschner, "Giovanni XVI, antipapa,"Enciclopedia dei Papi (2000). (in Italian) Schwartz, p. 189.
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Sources: Annuario Pontificio (2007) and Archivio dell'Istituto Centrale per il sostentamento del clero (2008, updated monthly), as cited by CCI (2008), Diocesi di Piacenza - Bobbio, Chiesa Cattolica Italiana, archived from the original on 2003-09-05, retrieved 2008-03-16.
Source for parishes: CCI (2008), Parrocchie, Chiesa Cattolica Italiana, archived from the original on 2008-03-14, retrieved 2008-03-16. Two more parishes were closed in 2016. The correct number is now (2018) 420 parishes.
