Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
ORTE, DIOCESE OF. – A city and diocese in Lazio. It has an area of about 175 sq km and a population of 21,416 inhabitants, all Catholic, distributed across 16 parishes served by 25 diocesan priests; it has 2 male and 3 female religious communities.
Orte (Horta dei Romani) was united in 1437 to the diocese of Civitacastellana (cf.) by Pope Eugenius IV with the bull Sacrosancta Romana Ecclesia. Orte is well known for its municipal organization from the beginning of the Roman Empire, as attested by Pliny the Elder (Nat. Hist., 3, 52) and by some Roman inscriptions (CIL, VI, 2380; VIII, 4194 and 4249). However, its first bishop is not recorded until the year 502.
The cathedral is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of the Assumption.
BIBL.: P. Gams, Series episcoporum, Regensburg 1873, p. 685; Cappelletti, VI, p. 23; L. Duchesne, Le sedi episcopali nell'antico Ducato di Roma, in Arch. della Soc. rom. di storia patria, 15 (1892), p. 491; Lanzoni, I, pp. 546-47.
Enrico Josi
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“ORTE, DIOCESI DI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), p. 256. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/orte-diocesi-di.
