The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oristano ( la, Archidioecesis Arborensis) is a
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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in
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...
, Italy. It was created in the eleventh century. Its only suffragan is the
Diocese of Ales-Terralba
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ales-Terralba ( la, Dioecesis Uxellensis-Terralbensis) is located in Sardinia, Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Oristano.Giacomo Serra
*1510–1517 Pietro Serra De Munoz
*1517–1520 Giovanni Briselot
*1520–1530 Giovanni Clerc
*1530–1535 Agostino Grimaldi
*1536– Goffredo Pugiasson
*1537–1554 Carlo de Alagon
*1554–1556 Andrea Sanna
*1556–1565 Pietro Sanna
*1566–1571 Gerolamo Barberano
*1572–1574 Pietro Buerba
*1574–1577 Pietro Noarro
*1578–1588 Francesco Figo
*1588–1621 Antonio Canopolo
*1621–1627 Lorenzo Nieto
*1627–1641 Gavino Magliano
*1641–1657 Pietro de Vico
*1657–1684 Alfonso de Sotomajor
*1664–1671 Bernardo Cotoner
*1672–1685 Pietro de Alagon
*1685–1702 Pietro de Accorrà y Figo
*1704–1717 Francesco Masones Nin
*1726–1740 Antonio Nin
*1741–1744 Vincenzo Giovanni Vico Torrellas
*1744–1746 Nicolò Maurizio Fontana
*1746–1772 Luigi Emanuele de Carretto di Camerana
*1772–1776 Antonio Romano Malingri
*1778–1782 Giacomo Francesco Tommaso Astesan
*1784–1798 Giuseppe Luigi Cusano di Sagliano
*1798–1812 Francesco Maria Sisternes de Oblites
*1812–1821 Giovanni Maria Azzei
*1828–1840 Giovanni Maria Bua
*1842–1860 Giovanni Saba
*1872–1878 Antonio Soggiu
*1879–1882 Bonfiglio Mura
*1882–1992 Paolo Giuseppe Maria Serci Serra
*1893–1898 Francesco Zunnui Casula
*1899–1914 Salvatore Tolu
*1914–1920
Ernesto Maria Piovella Ernesto Maria Piovella O.SS.C.A. (29 October 1867, Milan - 18 February 1949, Cagliari) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and bishop.
Life
He entered the oblate missionaries of Rho and served as vicar general at Ravenna. Pope Pius X made him ...
*1921–1938 Giorgio Maria Delrio
*1938–1947 Giuseppe Cogoni
*1947–1979 Sebastiano Fraghì
*1979–1985 Francesco Spanedda
*1986–2006 Pier Giuliano Tiddia
*2006–2019 Ignazio Sanna
*2019–present Roberto Carboni
It would appear that a process has begun to permanently unite the diocese of Ales-Terralba and the archdiocese of Oristano. The Bishop of Ales-Terralba, Roberto Carboni, O.F.M. Conv., was promoted on 4 May 2019 to be Archbishop of Oristano and on the same date was appointed Apostolic Administrator of his former diocese of Ales-Terralba. However, on 3 July 2021, without losing his position as Archbishop of Oristano, he was reappointed Bishop of Ales-Terralba. The announcement specifies that this act unifies the two dioceses ''in persona Episcopi'' ('in the person of the Bishop').
Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...