Diocese of Aleria
The Diocese of Aleria (Latin Dioecesis Aleriensis) was a Roman Catholic residential diocese of the Latin rite, a suffragan of the metropolitan archdiocese of Pisa from at least the eleventh century until 1801.[1][2] It has been a titular diocese since 2004. The seat was at Aléria on the east coast of Corsica.
There is some evidence that Corsica was being converted to Christianity in the late 6th century. Pope Gregory the great wrote in 597 to Bishop Peter of Alaria to recover lapsed converts and to convert more pagans from the worship of trees and stones. He sent him money for baptismal robes.[3] In 601, however, Aleria was without a bishop. Gregory had sent a certain Bishop Leo to deal with the situation in Corsica as Apostolic Visitor, where there had been no bishop for some time. Pope Gregory addresses Leo as episcopus in Corsica, bishop in Corsica, not bishop of Corsica, and authorizes him to perform ordinations of priests and deacons.[4] While Leo was still in Corsica, Pope Gregory sent a second bishop, Martinus to join in the Visitation. [5]
On 29 November 1801, in accordance with the Napoleontic Concordat of 1801, it was suppressed as the territory of the diocese of Ajaccio was extended to the whole of Corsica. At the end of the Ancien Régime, the bishop no longer lived in Aléria, but in Cervione.
Today, Aleria is no longer a residential bishopric, but was restored as a titular see in April 2004.[6] It has had only one incumbent to date, of the lowest (episcopal) rank.
Bishops of Aleria
to 1400
- Landolf (1093 – 1098)[2]
- Hiéronyme (1122 – ?)[2]
- Marco de Volaterres (1139 – ?)[2]
- Blaise (1172 – ?)[2]
- Flavius (1179 – ?)[2]
- Antoine (1190 – ?)[2]
- Clément (1217 – ?)[2]
- Nicolas (1228 – ?)[2]
- Lombardo Cuneo (1239 – ?)[2]
- Orlandu Cortincu della Petrallarretta (1249 – ?)[2]
- Landolf (1257 – ?)[2]
- Lombard (1258 – ?)[2]
- Nivolao Fortiguerra (1270 – ?)[2]
- Bartolomeo de Benevento (1274 – ?)[2]
- Orlandu Cortincu (1289 – ?)[2]
- Salvin (1300 – ?)[2]
- Guglielmo (1309 – ?)[2]
- Gerardo Orlandini (1322 – 1330)[2]
- Calcagno Bocca di Bue (1330 – 1342)[2]
- Guglielmo Arcumbaldi (1342 – 1345)[2]
- Arnald, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1345.07.30 – ?), previously Bishop of Segni (Italy) (1333.10.30 – 1345.07.30)[2]
- Raimond (1354 – ?)[2]
- Johannes (1360 – 1362)[2]
- Blaise (1362 – ?)[2]
- Salvin (1366 – 1405)[2]
since 1400
- Bartolomé (1406 – 1410)[2]
- Ottobrino Lomellino (1411 – ?)[2]
- Léon (1412 – 1440)[2]
- Ambrughju d’Omessa (1440 – 1464)[2]
- Giovanni Andrea Bussi (1469 – death 1475)[9][2]
- Cardinal Ardicino della Porta (1475.02.22 – death 1493.02.04)[10][2]
- Girolamo Pallavicini (1493 – 1512)[2]
- Cardinal Innocenzo Cibo (1518.06.19 – 1520.12.19) Apostolic Administrator[11][12][2]
- Francesco Pallavicini (1520 – ?)[2]
- ...
- Pietro Francesco Pallavicini (1551 – death 1570)[2]
- Alessandro Sauli, (B.) (1570.02.10 – 1591.05.10)[13]
- Ottavio Belmosto (1591.07.31 – 1608)[14]
- Domenico Rivarola (1608.12.10 – 1609.03.30)[15]
- Giovanni Sauli (Scali, Sacchi) (1609 – 1611)[16]
- Giovan Francesco Murta (de Mirto) (1611 – 1612)[17]
- Dezio Giustiniani (1612 – 1642)
- Agostino Donghi (1643 – 1645)
- Cardinal Ottaviano Raggi, Apostolic Administrator. (1643.01.12 – 1643.12.31)[18]
- Giovanni Battista Imperiali (1645 – 1674)
- Mario Emmanuelle Durazzo (1674 – 1704)[19]
- Raffaele Raggi, Barnabites (1705.03.02 – death 1712)
- Carlo Maria Giuseppe Fornari (1712 – death 1715)
- Carlo Maria Giuseppe de Fornari (1713.01.30 – 1715.02.20)[20]
- Agostino Saluzzo, Lazarists (C.M.) (1715 – 1720)[21]
- Camillo de Mari (1720 – death 1741)
- Girolamo Curlo (1741 – death 1750)
- Matteu d’Angelis (1750 – death 1769)
- Jean-Joseph-Marie de Guernes (1770.08.06 – 29 November 1801)
Titular bishops of Aleria
- Guido Fiandino (2002.06.21 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Turin
References
- ^ "Diocese of Aleria". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj "Titular Episcopal See of Aléria" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
- ^ Richards, Jeffrey (1980). Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great. London, Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 237. ISBN 0-7100-0346-3.
- ^ Gregory I, Epistolarum Liber I, no. 78 (sometimes numbered 76), in: J. P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae Latinae Tomus LXXVII (Paris 1862), pp. 532-533.
- ^ Gregory (Epistles I, no. 80; Migne, p. 533) writes to the clergy and nobility of Corsica: Gregorius clero et nobilibus Corsicae a paribus. Etsi vos multo iam tempore sine pontifice esse Dei ecclesiae non doletis, nos tamen de eius regimine cogitare et suscepti cura compellit officii.... He announces that he is sending a second bishop to work with Bishop Leo, "Martinum fratrem et coepiscopum nostrum ibidem cardinalem constituere sacerdotem, Leoni vero fratri et coepiscopo nostro operam eius visitationis iniungere. The special authority of the Pope was necessary since both bishops were working in dioceses which were not their own.
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 829
- ^ Bishop Petrus of Aleria in Corsica was ordered by Pope Gregory I in AD 596 to consecrate a basilica church with its baptistery in the village of Nigeuno. J.P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae latinae Tomus LXXVII (Paris 1862), p. 813 (Epistolarum Liber VI no. xxii.) Ughelli, p. 502. Cappelletti, p. 328. P. Jaffé, Regesta pontificum Romanorum I editio altera (Leipzig 1885), p. 171 no. 1402. A second letter, of September 597: Jaffe, no. 1488.
- ^ Bishop Bonosus subscribed his name at the Lateran Synod of Pope Martin I in 649, immediately after Opportunus of Pisa and Donatus of Mariana. Ughelli, p. 502. J. D. Mansi (ed.) Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio edito novissima, Tomus decimus (10) (Florence: A. Zatta 1764), p. 867. Cappelletti, p. 329. Ughelli, followed blindly by Cappelletti, put the Synod in 646, but Pope Martin was not pope until 649.
- ^ "Bishop Giovanni Andrea de Bussi (Bossi)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ "Ardicino Cardinal della Porta (Jr.)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016. Della Porta was created Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1489.03.23 – 1492), also Apostolic Administrator of Olomouc (Bohemia) (1489.06.03 – 1493.02.040.
- ^ Cybo was Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Domnica (1517.06.26 – 1550.02.28), also Apostolic Administrator of Marseille (France) (1517.05.11 – 1530.01.12), also Apostolic Administrator of Ventimiglia (Italy) (1519.07.27 – 1519.08.08); and Bourges (France).
- ^ "Innocenzo Cardinal Cibo (Cybo)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ Sauli had previously been Superior General of Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (Barnabites) (1567.04.09 – 1570.02.10), and was later Bishop of Pavia (Italy) (1591.10.30 – death 1592.10.11)
- ^ "Ottavio Cardinal Belmosto (Belmusti)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016. Belmosto was later Bishop of Pavia (Italy) (1591.10.30 – death 1592.10.11) and was later created Cardinal-Priest of S. Carlo ai Catinari (1616.10.17 – death 1618.11.16)
- ^ "Domenico Cardinal Rivarola". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016. Rivarola was later Metropolitan Archbishop of Nazareth–Canne–Monteverde in Barletta (Italy) (1609.03.30 – death 1627.01.03), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Martino ai Monti (1611.09.12 – death 1627.01.03)
- ^ "Bishop Giovanni Sauli (Scali, Sacchi), O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ "Bishop Giovanni Francesco Murta (de Mirto), C.R." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ Raggi was already Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Agostino (1642.02.10 – 1643.12.31)
- ^ Durazzo was transferred to the diocese of Mariana et Acci (1704 – 1706)
- ^ Fornari was transferred to the diocese of Albenga (Italy) (1715.02.20 – 1730.12.11). He was later Titular Bishop of Attalea in Lydia (1730.12.11 – ?).
- ^ Saluzzo was transferred to the diocese of Mariana et Acci (1720 – death 1747)
Books
- Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1861). Le chiese d'Italia Tomo decimosesto Venezia: Giuseppe Antonelli. pp. 326-353. Retrieved: 2016-10-26.
- Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
{{cite book}}:|first1=has generic name (help) (in Latin) - Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
{{cite book}}:|first1=has generic name (help) - Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
{{cite book}}:|first1=has generic name (help) - Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo (in Latin). Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz.
- Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- Pisani, Paul (1907). Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802) (in French). Paris: A. Picard et fils.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- Ughelli, Ferdinando; Coleti, Niccolo (1718). Italia sacra sive De episcopis Italiæ, et insularum adjacentium (in Latin). Vol. Tomus tertius (3) (secunda ed.). Venice: apud Sebastianum Coleti. pp. 501–515.