The suburban diocese of Palestrina

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The suburban seat of Palestrina () is a suburban diocese of the Catholic Church of the Diocese of Rome that belongs to the ecclesiastical region of Lazio in Italy. In 2004, there were 87,600 baptized out of a population of 88,000. The current bishop is Mauro Parmeggiani.

Territory
The diocese comprises 16 communes in the province of Rome and 2 in the province of Frosinone:
Bellegra, Capranica Prenestina, Castel San Pietro Romano, Cave, Gallicano nel Lazio, Genazzano, Labico, Olevano Romano, Palestrina, Paliano, Pisoniano, Rocca di Cave, Rocca Santo Stefano, Roiate, San Cesareo, San Vito Romano, Serrone, Zagarolo.

The episcopal seat is the city of Palestrina, where the Cathedral of San Agapito is located.

Other important places in the diocese are the shrine of Our Lady of the Good Council (Nostra Signora del Buon Consiglio) of Genazzano and the ancient episcopal headquarters of Gabi and Subaugusta.

The territory is subdivided into 49 parishes.

History
The oldest testimonies of the Christian past of this diocese narrate the martyrdom of Agapito, to which the cathedral is dedicated, which took place under the empire of Aureliano. This basilica was very soon created by Pope Leo III.

Secundus, the first bishop of Palestrina to be heard, went to the Council of Rome in 313. The name of other bishops is also known. In the place of Castel San Pietro, it is also known of a flourishing convent from it. After him, the bishop of Palestrina was one of the Hebrew prelates who served in the lateral basilica, and was similar to a cardinal; the bishop of Palestrina is the fourth in the order of cardinals bishops.

The Prenestine headquarters has incorporated the territory of two suppressed episcopal headquarters: that of Gabii, of which there were ten bishops known between the V and the IX centuries; and that of Subaugusta, of which four bishops are known between 465 and 502.

Among the prelates that governed this diocese, it is worth recalling: Gregorio, who in 757 consecrated the antiPope Constantine II; Andrea, legacy of Pope Adriano I to King Desiderio in 772; Uberto (1073), legacy of Pope Gregorio VII to Emperor Henry IV; Conone (1111), who embellished the crypt of Saint Agapito; St. Stephen (1122), a Cistercian monk, comparable to Bernardo de Claraval and John de Salisbury for his piety; Guarino (1144), a regular bishop of Pope of Saint John II, who was to be reconciled with his regular father, Bishop of St. John II; and St. John II, a regular son of St. John II; During the Chism of the West, the Avignon potatoes also named cardinals bishops of Palestrina. Since then, as a result of the possibility of the Cardinals of