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The Diocese of Gubbio, with a territory of about 907 square chilometres and about 48 thousand inhavitants, includes the comunes of
Gubbio, Cantiano, Scheggia, and the capital of the comune of
Umbertide. It confines with the dioceses of Assisi-Nocera, Umbria-Gualdo Tadino, Perugia-Città della Pieve, Fano-Fossombrone, Cagli-Pergola.
The famous letter of pope Innocenzo I, written in 416 to Decenzio, bishop of Gubbio, a century from the proclamation of Costantino, present an organization already formed, and proving its most antique origin. Another document which proves its prestige is the Letter of pope St. Gregorio Magno, between 598 and 599 to the bishop Gaudioso.
At the beginning of the second millenium the silence which ruled in the following centuries was interrupted by the documentation of the influence which the
Eremo of St.Croce of Fonte Avellana,
centre of spirituality and culture, illustrated by St. Pier Damiani, had on the religious life of the Diocese.
In the reformatory spirit of St.Pier Damiani, the bisho
Ubaldo Baldassini
(1129-1160), the greatest of all bishops in Gubbio, canonized by Celestino III in 1192, and the most famous, devoted himself incessantly to the restoration of the comunal life of the clergy and the consolidation of the ecclesiastical institutions and for the composition of arguments in the matters of the City.
The influence of Fonte Avellana is entwined with the Franciscan influence in 1200.
St.Francis
came to Gubbio immediately after the conversion and he passed here many times in his life. The "Fioretti" immortalized the relationships between St. Francis and Gubbio with the famous episode of St.Francis and the wolf.
In the modern period Gubbio counts its great bishops Marcello Cervini (1544-1555), who was then
Pope Marcello II: of him we remember his diocese synod of 1549 which anticipated the tridentine reform.
Presently the Diocese is divided in 40 parishes composed of six pastoral zones. Prepared since 1994, the Diocese celebrated the Synod in 1996, published later in 1997: "for a church which announces, celebrates and testifies the Gospel of Charity". It adjourns the Synod of 1952 celebrated by Mons. Beniamino Ubaldi, stating the action of the Church according to the new pastoral necessities in a modified cultural situation of the society.
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Presently the bishop of Gubbio is Mons. Pietro Bottaccioli, born in Umbertide on the 15th February 1928, entered in the seminary on the 17th October 1938. He has a degree in canonical law from the Lateranese Pontifical University; he became priest on the 1st October 1950.
Monsignor Mario Ceccobelli è nato a Marsciano il 14
agosto 1941 fa ed è stato ordinato sacerdote il 3 settembre 1966. È stato vice
parroco a Tuoro sul Trasimeno dal 1967 al 1968, quindi segretario del vescovo,
Ferdinando Lambruschini, per oltre un decennio. Poi è stato parroco di Ponte
Felcino, a Perugia, dal 1982 al 1995, ed infine, negli ultimi nove anni, vicario
generale dell'Arcidiocesi perugina. Il nuovo Vescovo di Gubbio è il 59°
successore di S.Ubaldo. Per trovare un precedente della nomina a Vescovo di
Gubbio di un Vicario Generale di Perugia, bisogna risalire al 1932 quando venne
nominato vescovo di Gubbio Mons. Beniamino Ubaldi (1932-1965).
Visit the official web
site of the museum of the diocese
The museum is
in the elegant Canonical building of the
On the
ground floor there is the famous "Barrel of the Canonici". It
is an enormous barrel of 1500, built without metal rings, in fact
the wooden planks are kept together by interlaced beams.
