 The Chapter complied, and the diocese was reduced to only fourteen parishes.On 5 April 1806, at the demand of Bonaparte, now Emperor Napoleon I, Pope Pius VII issued the Bull "Expositum cum nobis", by which the diocese of Ventimiglia was removed from the metropolitanate of Milan, and made a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Aix.On 30 May 1818, however, Pope Pius VII, in the Bull "Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum", returned Ventimiglia to Italian control, in the form of the House of Savoy, which had been restored to the expanded Kingdom of Sardinia (the King was also Doge of Genoa), and assigned the diocese to the metropolitanate of Genoa.