sentences:  His successor, a Spanish Dominican, Ludovico di Lagoria, was nearly killed by the people.In a decree of the Second Vatican Council, it was recommended that dioceses be reorganized to take into account modern developments.A project begun on orders from Pope John XXIII, and continued under his successors, was intended to reduce the number of dioceses in Italy and to rationalize their borders in terms of modern population changes and shortages of clergy.