History
It is probable that Ventimiglia had a bishop from the fifth century; the first known is Joannes (680). Among his successors were:
- Cardinal Antonio Pallavicino (1484) and Alessandro Fregoso, both more distinguished as warriors than as clerics;
- Filippo de'Mari (1519), who restored ecclesiastical discipline;
- Carlo Visconti (1561), later a cardinal;
- Carlo Grimaldo (1565), who distinguished himself at the Council of Trent;
- Girolamo Curlo (1614), who died by poison in Corsica, where he had been sent as Commissary Apostolic:
- Gianfrancesco Gandolfi (1622), who negotiated the peace between Savoy and Genoa;
- Antonio Maria Bacigaluppi (1773).
- Bl. Tommaso Reggio (1877)
The diocese has been suffragan to Genoa since 1775.
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