Zuglio

Ecclesiastical history

• The Diocese of Zuglio or Iulium Carnicum was established in 380 AD on territory -originally Cadorna and Carnia - split off from the then Diocese of Aquileia and became its suffragan at its elevation to Patriarchate of Aquileia in 560. The strategic position on the Iulia Augusta brought wealth and extended jurisdiction
• The barbaric invasions made the inhabitants flee the city, first probably translating their basilica and episcopal see up to San Pietro mount but abandoning Zuglio in 705 after a terrible raid by the Avars. The Longobard historian Paulus Diaconus notes that bishop Fidentius ''transferred his see' to Cividale but his successor, Amatore, was chased there to in 737 by Patriarch Callixtus of Aquileia, who made Cividale his patriarchal see.
• It was suppressed in 740 at bishop Amatore's death, its territory being merged into the Patriarchate of Aquileia, but retained the right to a cathedral chapter until the Napoleonic era. Its former Cathedral, S. Pietro in Carnia, in Zuglio, was not granted co-cathedral status. Carnia ended up in the Archdiocese of Udine, Cadore went in 1846 to the Diocese of Belluno.

  Residential Ordinaries

• Amantius = Amanzio
• ...
• Januarius = Ianuario
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• Maxentius = Massensio
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• Fidenzio = Fidentius
• Amator.

  Titular see

• Titular Bishop Aldo Gobbi as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Imola
• Titular Bishop Emilio Pizzoni as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Udine , died 1994; previously Bishop of Terracina , Bishop of Priverno , Bishop of Sezze , Titular Bishop of Gunugus
• Titular Bishop Pietro Brollo as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Udine ; later Bishop of Belluno–Feltre , Metropolitan Archbishop of above Udine
• Titular Bishop Alfred Kipkoech Arap Rotich as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Nairobi ; next Military Ordinary of Kenya
• Titular Archbishop Cardinal Mario Zenari, as papal diplomat : Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso, Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka, Apostolic Nuncio to Syria ; next created Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri
• Titular Bishop Pedro Sergio de Jesús Mena Díaz, Bishop-elect as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Yucatán .

  Twin towns

• Rosegg, Austria