BRUGNATO. - In Liguria, in the province of Genova. A Benedictine monastery flourished there, whose foundation is attributed to the Lombard king Liutprando, in honour of SS. Pietro, Lorenzo, and Colombano; it received privileges from Popes Gregorio III, Giovanni XIII, and Benedetto VII, from the Lombard kings Astolfo and Desiderio, and from the emperors Carlomagno and his successors, the three Ottoni, and Enrico II in 1014. Innocenzo II in 1133 suppressed the abbey and erected the diocese of B., raising the abbot Pietro to the episcopate, and made it a suffragan of Genova. Gregorio IX united it to Noli, a union annulled in 1245 by Innocenzo IV; in 1787 a large part of the diocese was detached when Pio VI erected the bishopric of Pontremoli; in 1820 it was united aeque principaliter Luni (v.) and Sarzana.
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BIBL.: Ughelli, IV, 979; F. Luxardo, Memorie antiche di B. e della sua celebre badia, Genova 1879; P. Fr. Kehr, Italia Pontificia, VI, 2, Berlino 1914, p. 368; L.-H. Cottineau, Répertoire tapo-bibliographique des abbayes et prierés, I, Mâcon 1939, col. 519. Enrico Josi
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“BRUGNATO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), p. 102. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/brugnato.