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23-505: Cardinal Barbarigo was the Bishop of Montefiascone and worked in the spirit of the reforms of the Council of Trent to provide a moral and human reform to society. He was aware of the deep ignorance among the poor and was seeking to find a way of influencing a healthy family life. Barbarigo came to hear of the success of a free school opened by Rose Venerini in the nearby city of Viterbo,

46-621: A Chapter composed of two dignities (the Dean and the Sacristan) and eight Canons with prebends. The Dean was to be elected by the Chapter and installed by the bishop, but the other offices were to be filled by appointment by the bishop. The territory for the diocese was taken from the diocese of Bagnoregio, and any properties or rights within that territory which belonged to the bishops of Bagnoregio, Castro, Orvieto, Viterbo or Tuscano were assigned to

69-464: A part of the diocese of Civitavecchia . In 1483, Bishop Domenico della Rovere laid the cornerstone for the new cathedral of S. Margarita in Montefiascone, and in his Last Will and Testament in 1501 he left money to continue the work, which had barely reached the level of the main floor of the church at the time of his death. Cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo (1687–1706) held a diocesan synod in

92-650: The Diocese of Tarquinia e Civitavecchia Immediately Subject to the Holy See 30 September 1986: suppression of the diocese of Montefiascone. With the appointment of Bishop Gerald Richard Barnes on 28 Jan 1992 as an auxiliary bishop of the San Bernardino , the title of Titular Bishop of Mons Faliscus (Montefiascone) was assigned to him and subsequently to other bishops over time: Simon Langham Simon Langham (1310 – 22 July 1376)

115-708: The Religious Teachers Filippini , is credited with the religious and social improvement of Italian women well before compulsory education. During World War II , in accordance with the wishes of Pope Pius XII , three of the institute's convents in Rome (in Via delle Botteghe Oscure, in Via Caboto and in Via delle Fornaci) concealed and sheltered 114 people for over a year. According to Sr. Domenica Mitaritonna, "The Religious Teachers Filippini taught during

138-541: The Western Schism began, Bishop Pierre became a partisan of Clement VII (Avignon Obedience), and he was therefore deposed by Urban VI (Roman Obedience). On 5 December 1435, the diocese of Montefiascone was united with the diocese of Corneto in the person of the bishop; that is the bishop of Montefiascone was also at the same time the bishop of Corneto, with each diocese retaining its own institutional integrity. The union continued until, in 1854, Corneto became

161-585: The Cardinal devised a set of rules to guide Lucy and her followers in the religious life. Fifty-two schools were established during Lucy's lifetime. The "Institute of the Maestre Pie" founded and maintained girls’ schools in that diocese and beyond. As the Community grew, it attracted the attention of Pope Clement XI who, in 1707, called Lucy to Rome to start schools. The institute, which came to be known as

184-930: The Gillespie estate for their use. The motherhouse of the US province is located at Villa Walsh in Morristown, New Jersey. Among other schools, the sisters staffed that of Our Lady of Sorrows in Jersey City, New Jersey . The sisters have an Associates program by which laywomen may join in the spirituality and apostolates of the sisters. Filippini built the Religious Teachers Filippini into an international order. The Teachers operate schools, hospitals, orphanages, and other ministries in Albania, Brazil, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland,

207-671: The United Kingdom, and the United States. Bishop of Montefiascone The diocese of Montefiascone ( Latin Name: Faliscodunensis o Montis Falisci ) was a Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Italy . It was created from the diocese of Bagnorea in 1369. In 1986 was incorporated into the diocese of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino . The diocese

230-543: The bishop of Montefiascone. Pope Urban held another consistory for the creation of new cardinals at Montefiascone on 7 June 1370. Two cardinals were named, one a Florentine and the other from Rodez in France. He departed from Montefiascone for Avignon on 26 August 1370, where he died on 19 December 1370. Its first bishop was the French Augustinian Pierre d'Anguiscen, appointed in 1376. In 1378, when

253-484: The cathedral of Montefiascone on 1–3 June 1692. Bishop Lodivio Zacchia held a diocesan synod in 1622. Cardinal Jean-Siffrein Maury (1794–1816) held a diocesan synod. Bishop Sebastiano Pompilio Bonaventura (1706–1734) presided over a diocesan synod on 16–18 June 1710. The erection of the diocesan seminary for Corneto and Montefiascone was the work of Cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo. By the middle of 1986, papal policy in

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276-562: The chancellorship on 18 July 1367. He was soon allowed to hold other although less exalted positions in England. In 1374, he was elected Archbishop of Canterbury for the second time, but he withdrew his claim and died at Avignon on 22 July 1376. He was buried in Avignon but his body was moved to Westminster Abbey in 1379. Langham's tomb, in the chapel of St Benedict, is the work of Henry Yevele and Stephen Lote, and dates from 1389-1395. It

299-694: The day and at night they would take turns to be on guard to protect their guests." At the end of the war a group of Jewish women whom the sisters in Via delle Botteghe Oscure had sheltered, presented the sisters with a statue of Our Lady of Fatima. It was installed in the area where the refugees had lived with the sisters. In 1910, in response to a request by Msgr. Luigi Pozzi, pastor of St. Joachim's parish, in South Trenton, New Jersey for sisters to work among his Italian parishioners, Pope Pius X sent five sisters to America. They disembarked in New York from

322-558: The diocese of Viterbo e Tuscania, whose name was changed to the Diocese of Viterbo. The diocese of Montefiascone ceased to exist as a territorial circumscription. 5 December 1435: one bishop was the head of two dioceses at the same time Latin Name: Cornetanus Tarquiniensis et Montisflasconsis 14 June 1854: United with the Diocese of Civitavecchia and then split into the Diocese of Montefiascone and

345-623: The first in Italy. He invited Venerini to come to his diocese to establish similar schools. She accepted the invitation and arrived in Montefiascone in 1692, where she spent the next two years establishing schools throughout the diocese. Having established 10 schools, she was called back to her own diocese, and left the school building project to Lucy Filippini . The young ladies of Montefiascone were taught domestic arts, weaving, embroidering, reading, and Christian doctrine. Twelve years later

368-425: The inhabitants toward himself and his predecessors. The Pope held a consistory for the creation of new cardinals at Montefiascone on 22 September 1368. He named six Frenchmen, a Roman, and an Englishman ( Simon Langham ). The diocese of Montefiascone was erected by Pope Urban V by the papal bull, Cum Illius of 31 August 1369. He appointed the church of S. Margarita to serve as its cathedral, and he installed in it

391-509: The most interesting incident in Langham's primacy was when he drove the secular clergy from Canterbury College, Oxford and filled their places with monks or friars in 1366. The expelled head of the seculars was a certain John de Wiclif, who has been identified with the reformer John Wycliffe . In 1371 Wycliffe's appeal to Rome was decided and was unfavourable to him. The incident was typical of

414-401: The ongoing rivalry between monks and secular clergy at Oxford University at this time. Notwithstanding the part Langham as Chancellor had taken in the anti-papal measures of 1365 and 1366, he was made cardinal of San Sisto Vecchio by Pope Urban V in 1368. This lost him the favour of Edward III ; two months later, he resigned his archbishopric and went to Avignon . He had already resigned

437-613: The selection of bishops had concentrated in the person of Bishop Luigi Boccadoro: the Diocese of Viterbo e Tuscania , the diocese of Acquapendente (since 1951), the diocese of Montefiascone (since 1951), and the Administratorship of the diocese of Bagnoregio (since 1971); he was also the Abbot Commendatory of Monte Cimino. On 30 September 1986 Pope John Paul II moved to consolidate these several small dioceses by suppressing them and uniting their territories into

460-495: The steamship St. Anne on August 17, 1910. In 1918, with a donation from James Cox Brady , Bishop Thomas J. Walsh of Trenton arranged the purchase of the Harvey Fisk estate, called "Riverside," for a motherhouse and novitiate for the sisters. In 1933 they established Villa Victoria Academy for girls. After he was named Bishop of Newark , he invited the sisters to expand their activities to his new diocese, and acquired

483-532: Was an English clergyman who was Archbishop of Canterbury and a cardinal . Langham was born at Langham in Rutland . The manor of Langham was a property of Westminster Abbey , and he had become a monk in the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter at Westminster by 1346, and later prior and then abbot of this house. He was the son of Thomas Langham who was buried in the abbey. In November 1360, Langham

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506-618: Was immediately subject to the Holy See . The town of Montefiascone, or, more specifically, the Rocca di Montefiascone, had long been the official residence of the Rector of the Patrimony of Saint Peter, and, whenever a pope visited, of the pope as well. Pope Urban V had stayed at Montefiascone during his journey from Avignon to Rome, and was greatly impressed by the loyalty and affection of

529-441: Was made Treasurer of England and on 10 January 1362 he became Bishop of Ely and was consecrated on 20 March 1362. During his time as Bishop of Ely he was a major benefactor of Peterhouse, Cambridge , giving them the rectory of Cherry Hinton . He resigned the treasurership before 20 February 1363, and was appointed Chancellor of England on 21 February 1363. He was chosen Archbishop of Canterbury on 24 July 1366. Perhaps

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