Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pesaro

The first bishop, St. Florentius, is said to have governed this see in the middle of the second century, while the bishop, St. Decentius, according to tradition, suffered martyrdom under Diocletian.

Bishop Heradianus was at the Council of Sardica in 343. Other bishops were:

• Germanus, who went with Cresconius di Todi to Constantinople in 497 as legate of Pope Anastasius II;
• Felix, whom Gregory the Great brought to trial;
• Maximus (649);
• Benenatus, a legate to the Sixth General Council (680);
• Stabilinus (769);
• Adelberto (998), founder of the monastery of S. Tommaso in Folgia, where Pope Clement II died in 1047;
• Pietro (1070), who was deposed, being a partisan of the schism of Frederick Barbarossa;
• Bartolomeo (1218);
• Omodio (1346);
• Biagio Geminelli (1354);
• Leale Malatesta (1370);
• Cardinal Antonio Casini (1406);
• Paris de Grassis (1513–28)
• Giacomo Simoneta (1528–1535)
• Ludovico Simoneta (1537–1561)
• Giulio Simonetti (1560), was at the Council of Trent, and founded the seminary;
• Gian Lucido Palombara (1658), consecrated the new cathedral;
• Umberto Radicati (1742);
• Cardinal Gennaro Antonio de' Simoni (1775);
• Andrea Mastai-Ferretti (1806).[2]
• Ottavio Zollio (1822–1824)
• Felice Bezzi (1824–1828)
• Filippo Monacelli (1828–1839)
• Francesco Canali (1839–1846)
• Giovanni Carlo Gentili (1847–1854)
  • Vacant See (1854–1856)
• Clemente Fares (1856–1896)
• Carlo Bonaiuti (1896–1904)
• Paolo Marco Tei, O.F.M.Cap. (1904–1916)
• Bonaventura Porta (1917–1952)
• Luigi Carlo Borromeo (1952–1975)
• Gaetano Michetti (1975–1998)
• Angelo Bagnasco (1998–2003
• Piero Coccia, from 28 February 2004

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Missing or empty |title= (help)