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Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina–Poggio Mirteto Sabinensis–Mandelensis
Cathedral in Poggio Mirteto
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Rome
Statistics
Area	918 km2 (354 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 196,954 182,478 (92.7%)
Parishes	82
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	5th century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Poggio Mirteto)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale di S. Liberatore Vescovo e Martire (Magliano Sabina)
Secular priests	77 (diocesan) 29 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Ernesto Mandara
Website
www.diocesisabina.it

The Diocese of Sabina–Poggio Mirteto is a Latin suburbicarian see of the Holy Roman Church (which means it carries the rare rank of cardinal-bishop) and a diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy in the Roman province of the Pope.

Sabina has been the seat of such a bishopric since the 6th century, though the earliest names in the list of bishops may be apocryphal.

The ancient cathedral of San Salvatore of Sabina was located in Forum Novum (Vescovio).

The official papal province of Sabina was established under Pope Paul V in 1605.

Since 1842 the Cardinal Bishop of Sabina has also borne the title of Territorial Abbot of Farfa.

The Diocese of Poggio Mirteto, in central Italia region Lazio's Province of Rieti (formerly in the province of Perugia), was a Latin bishopric from 1841 until its merger in to the Diocese of Sabina in 1925.^[1] Poggio Mirteto was previously under the jurisdiction of the Territorial Abbey of Farfa, which later passed to the Diocese of Sabina.

The diocese of Poggio Mirteto was established on November 25, 1841 from territory split off from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rieti, the Diocese of Sabina and the suppressed Territorial Abbacy of San Salvatore Maggiore,^[2] whose old collegiate church became the cathedral, and a diocesan seminary was established.

The diocese had in the early 20th century 38 parishes, with 32,600 inhabitants, 2 religious houses of men and 8 of sisters, under whose direction were the schools for girls in several communes.

Since 1925 (1925.06.03), the cardinalitial suburbicarian see of Sabina has been united to that of Poggio Mirteto, and has been officially named Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, since 1986 Sabina–Poggio Mirteto. Some of territory of Poggio Mirteto was returned to the other mother-bishopric, the Diocese of Rieti.

The current Cardinal-Bishop is Giovanni Battista Re, while the Ordinary of the Diocese is Bishop Ernesto Mandara.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

If ?, century or c. is given, exact years or dates have not yet been found for his tenure.

• Mariano (721)
• Pietro (778 to before 799)
• Issa (or Jesse) (799 to before 804)
• Teodoro (804 to before 826)
• Samuele (826 before 853)
• Sergio (853–868, or before 879)
• Leone (879 to before 928)
• Gregorio (928 to before 948)
• Anastasio (948 to before 963)
• Giovanni (963to before 984)
• Giovanni (984 to before 993)
• Domenico (993)
• Benedetto (999)
• Rainiero (999–1011)

The first bishop was Nicolo Crispigni.^[14] The last was Cardinal Gaetano de Lai.

Bishops of Poggio Mirteto

• Angelo Rossi (1874.12.21 – 1882.01.24), later Bishop of Civitavecchia (Italy) (1882.01.24 – 1906.10.14), Bishop of Tarquinia (Italy) (1882.01.24 – death 1906.10.14)
• Luciano Saracani (1882.03.27 – 1888.06.01), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Epiphania (1888.06.01 – death 1892.08.23)
• Paolo de Sanctis (1888.06.01 – 1896.06.22), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Sardica (1896.06.22 – death 1907)
• Domenico Ambrosi (1896.06.22 – 1899.12.19), later Bishop of Terracina (Italy) (1899.12.19 – 1921.08.17), Bishop of Priverno (Italy) (1899.12.19 – 1921.08.17), Bishop of Sezze (Italy) (1899.12.19 – death 1921.08.17)
• Giuseppe Gandolfi (1899.12.14 – 1906.09.26), later Bishop of Jesi (Italy) (1906.09.26 – death 1927.09.14)
• Archbishop-bishop Bartolomeo Mirra (1908.08.22 – death 1917.03.28), previously Titular Bishop of Amathus in Palæstina (1898.02.11 – 1907.04.15), Titular Archbishop of Auxume (1907.04.15 – 1908.08.22)
• Luigi Ferretti (1917.11.17 – 1924.03.24), later Bishop of Macerata (Italy) (1924.03.24 – 1934.11.26), Bishop of Tolentino (Italy) (1924.03.24 – 1934.11.26)
• Apostolic Administrator Gaetano De Lai (1924.08.07 – 1925.06.03), while Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (from 1925 of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto) (1911.11.27 – 1928.10.24), Cardinal Vice-Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals (1919.03.23 – 1928.10.24), Superior General of Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo (Scalabrinians) (1924 – 1928.10.24)

• Gaetano de Lai (see above 1925–1928)
• Donato Sbarretti^[15] (1928–1939)
• Enrico Sibilia^[16] (1939–1948)
• Adeodato Giovanni Piazza (1949–1957)
• Marcello Mimmi^[17] (1958–1961)
• Giuseppe Ferretto (1961–1973)^[18]
• Antonio Samoré (1974–1983)
• Agnelo Rossi^[19] (1984–1995)
• Eduardo Francisco Pironio^[20] (1995–1998)
• Lucas Moreira Neves (1998–2002)
• Giovanni Battista Re (from 2002)

• Kehr, Paul Fridolin (1907). Italia pontificia (in Latin). Vol. II: Latium. Berlin: Apud Weidmannos. pp. 53–74.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Benigni, Umberto (1911). "Diocese of Poggio Mirteto". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12.
• Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto Official Website
• Complete list
• Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. I-IV
• GCatholic with incumbent bio links