Roman Catholic Diocese of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello

Diocese of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello Dioecesis Pitilianensis-Soanensis-Urbetelliensis
Pitigliano Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino
Statistics
Area	2,177 km2 (841 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2021) 67,800 (est.) 66,500 (guess)
Parishes	71
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	7th century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di SS. Pietro e Paolo (Pitigliano)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Orbetello) Former cathedral: Former cattedrale di SS. Pietro e Paolo (Sovana)
Secular priests	46 (diocesan) 11 (Religious orders) 10 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Giovanni Roncari, O.F.M. Cap.
Map
Website
www.diocesipitigliano.it

The Diocese of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello (Latin: Dioecesis Pitilianensis-Soanensis-Urbetelliensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino, in Tuscany.^[1][2] The diocese of Sovana had originally been directly dependent upon the Holy See, and its bishops attended the pope's synods. When Pope Pius II, who was a Piccolomini of Siena, created the metropolitan archdiocese of Siena, he made Sovana one of its suffragan dioceses.^[3] The bishops of Sovana usually resided in the former palace of the Orsini in Pitigliano, which was given to Bishop Francesco Pio Santi (1776–1789) by the Grand Duke of Tuscany.^[4]

The bishop has his seat in the Cattedrale di Ss. Pietro e Paolo, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, in Pitigliano, a part of the province of Grosseto; the municipality of Sovana (Soana) in Toscana also has a Co-Cathedral named in honour of Saint Peter. Orbetello has the Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (S. Biagio), dedicated to the Assumption and St. Biagio.