Pope Stephen V (885-891) twice ordered Patriarch Walpert of Aquileia to consecrate Liutard, the Bishop-elect of Como. By the mid 6th century the diocese was subject to Aquileia. The diocese of Como was originally suffragan of Milan, as the consecration of its first bishop by Ambrose of Milan demonstrates. Local legend credits the conversion of Como to the apostolate of Hermagoras of Aquileia (died c. The Bishop of Como's cathedra is in the Como Cathedral. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Milan. It was established in the Fourth Century. The Diocese of Como ( Latin: Dioecesis Comensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Italy.
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