Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pesaro - Archepiscopal Curia - Italy

Reception and organization

Great welcome

Diocese of Pesaro.

clean environment full of cultural artistic works

We do not know with certainty the date of the first presence of Christians in Pesaro, but it seems probable that it can be traced back to apostolic times, even if, from lapidary inscriptions, Pesaro was pagan up to the third century. The first memory of a Christian community it was already established when Bishop Terenzio (246 ca. - 251) was venerated by the Church of Pesaro with special honors and proclaimed main protector. He was succeeded by the bishops S. Fiorenzo (251 -?) And S. Decenzio (302-312); the latter martyred together with his brother S. Germano Deacon, under the emperor Maxentius. The fourth bishop whose name we know and who is considered to be the co-patron of the city is St. Eracedno (321 ca.- 359 ca.). It seems that after the edict of Constantine the Great (313 AD) the basilica was built inside the walls on a Roman 'domus ecclesiae' of the second century AD. Of it is preserved the lithostroto, the lower one of the current cathedral and, perhaps at the time of Bishop Felice (ca. 578-600), the same basilica was equipped with a new lithostroto, the upper one, which we can still admire in large part . Unfortunately until 1170 there are only news of twenty-two bishops. After those already mentioned, the most notable is Germano (ca. 496 - ca. 523), who was the Pope's nuncio to Constantinople in 519 for the solution of the Eastern schism. Living the bishop Andrea (743-757), the king of the Franks Pippin, after removing the cities of Pentapoli from the Lombards, he donated them to Pope Stefano III (756-757), binding Pesaro directly to the Church of Rome. While not knowing the names of our shepherds, the numerous parishes scattered throughout the diocesan territory testify that the Pesaro church was already alive and flourishing during the early Middle Ages. We note that, towards the end of the 6th century, according to some historians, the bishop's cathedral which was located outside the walls, that is, at the basilica of San Decenzio, was transferred, for security reasons, inside the city, in the current Duomo.

The new Archbishop Sandro Salvucci takes office on Sunday 1 May 2022. Beautiful ceremony.