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2 unusual facts about Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro


Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro

On Tuesday, 18 September 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed the bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Bishop Luigi Negri, to serve as one of the Synod Fathers for the upcoming October 2012 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization.

Luigi Negri (17 March 2005 - 1 December 2012) Appointed Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio


Justus van Gent

Vespasiano da Bisticci, a Florentine bookseller who contributed much to form the antiquarian taste of Frederick of Montefeltro, states that this duke sent to the Netherlands for a capable artist to paint a series of ancient worthies for a library recently erected in the palace of Urbino.

Teyumbaita

This species was reassigned to its own genus by Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro, Max Cardoso Langer and Cesar Leandro Schultz in 2010 and the type species is Teyumbaita sulcognathus.


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