Latin
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: ''Dioecesis Adiacensis'';
French
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: ''Diocèse d'Ajaccio'') is a
Latin Church
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ecclesiastical jurisdiction or
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 ...
of the
Catholic Church
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in
France
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Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Diocese of Ajaccio" ''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 The diocese comprises the whole of the island of
Corsica
Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...
.
Erected in the 3rd century, the diocese was formerly a
suffragan
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
of the
Archdiocese of Pisa
The Archdiocese of Pisa ( la, Archidioecesis Pisana) is a metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in Pisa, Italy.717, Pisan">708, Pisan); on 30–31 July 1716
French Concordat
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of 1801, the diocese became a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aix">Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence and Arles, until 2002 when it was attached to the archdiocesan province of
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
. In 2012, in the diocese of Ajaccio, there was one priest for every 3,636 Catholics.
History
Its first bishop known to history was Evandrus, who assisted at the Council of Rome in 313.
In 1077,
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Gregory VII ( la, Gregorius VII; 1015 – 25 May 1085), born Hildebrand of Sovana ( it, Ildebrando di Soana), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 April 1073 to his death in 1085. He is venerated as a saint ...
granted the sovereignty of the island of Corsica to Pisa. In 1347, Pisa was forced to cede its control over the island of Corsica to Genoa. Pope Eugene IV tried to reestablish papal sovereignty, but he failed.
At the end of the sixteenth century, the Cathedral of Ajaccio had only two dignities, the Archpriest and the Archdeacon, and three Canons with three prebends.
Pope Sixtus V
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added five Canons, making a total of ten members of the body. In 1695, there were two dignities and twelve Canons.
In 1759, Ajaccio had a population of around 5,000, under the political control of the Republic of Genoa, though the diocese was suffragan to the Metropolitan of Pisa. The Cathedral had one dignity and thirteen canons, there was one monastery of monks.
Before the
French Revolution
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, Corsica contained five other dioceses:
*
Diocese of Accia
The Diocese of Accia was a Roman Catholic bishopric on the island of Corsica. It is now a titular diocese. The diocese was located in the town of Accia in the interior region of Haute-Corse, which was destroyed and from which only some ruins rem ...
(vacant since 1563, and merged with the diocese of Mariana; both suppressed in 1790);
*
Diocese of Aléria
The Diocese of Aleria (Latin ''Dioecesis Aleriensis'') was a Roman Catholic diocese of the Latin rite, in the center of the eastern coast of the island of Corsica in the Department of Haute-Corse. The town of Aleria was subject to repeated raids ...
, an ancient city of the Phocians, whose bishop resided at Corte;
* Diocese of Sagone, a vanished city whose bishop resided at Calvi, while the Chapter was at Vico;
* Diocese of Mariana, also a vanished city, whose bishop resided at
Bastia
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;
*and Diocese of Nebbio (whose bishop resided in the port of Saint-Florent).
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1791) suppressed all these bishoprics in favor of one diocese for the entire island, called the Diocese de Corse, inside the province of the Côtes de la Méditerranée.
The Byzantine ruins at
Mariana
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Music
*"Mariana", a so ...
perpetuate the memory of the church built by the
Pisa
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ns in the 12th century.
Cathedral
There is a legend that the bishops banished from Africa to Corsica in 484 by
Hunneric
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,
Arian
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King of the Vandals
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The Vandals migrated to the area betw ...
, built with their own hands the primitive cathedral of Ajaccio. The present cathedral, dating from 1554 to 1593, owes its construction to the initiative of Gregory XIII, who while still
Ugo Buoncompagni
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, spent some time at Ajaccio as
papal legate
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. The see was left vacant for five years, during which time the diocesan revenues were applied to the building of the cathedral. It was finished by Bishop Giustiniani after his nomination. It is said that the cathedral was designed by Giacomo della Porta, but a guidebook remarks, "Se è vero, non era molto in forma." Napoleon Bonaparte's uncle Lucien (Luciano) was Archdeacon of the Church of Ajaccio. Napoleon was baptized in the Cathedral on 21 July 1771.
Liturgical services are held according to the Greek Byzantine rite in the village of
Cargèse
Cargèse (; or ; it, Cargese ; el, Καργκέζε, Kargkéze) is a village and ''commune'' in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the west coast of the island of Corsica, 27 km north of Ajaccio. , the commune had a population of ...
, founded in 1676 by the descendants of the Greek aristocrat Stephen Comnenus (Stephanos Comnenos), whom the
Ottoman Turks
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had expelled from the
Peloponnesus
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*Petrus Corsus : (1401–1411)
*Marco : (1411–1420)
*Paolo de Albertis, O.Min. : (1420–1422)
* Andreas Didaci de Escobar : (1422–1428)
*Lucas de Offida, O.E.S.A. : (1429–1438)
*Valeriano Calderini : (1438)
*Rafael Spinola, O.Min. : (1438–1457)
*Deodato Boctoni : (1457–1476)
*Paolo di Bonifazio : (1477–1482)
*Gabriel de Franchi, O.P. : (1482– )
*Cardinal
Paolo Fregoso
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The son of doge Battista Fregoso, he was convinced by Pope Nicholas V to study ecclesiastical matters at Pavia. In 14 ...
Giovanni Stefano Donghi
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*Louis Sébastiani (de La Porta) (13 April 1802 – 9 December 1831 Died).
*Toussaint (Raffaele Sante) Casanelli d'Istria : (28 June 1833 – 12 October 1869 Died).
*Pierre-Paul de Cuttoli (21 December 1869 – 18 December 1870 Died).
*François-André-Xavier de Gaffory (27 February 1872 – 14 July 1877 Died).
*Paul-Matthieu de La Foata (21 August 1877 – 3 January 1899 Died)
*Louis Olivieri (7 December 1899 – 17 May 1903 Died)
:Vacant
*Marie-Joseph Ollivier (21 February 1906 – 21 March 1906 Died)
*Jean-Baptiste Desanti (1 June 1906 – 11 February 1916 Died)
*Auguste-Joseph-Marie Simeone (27 May 1916 – 30 July 1926 Appointed,
Bishop of Fréjus
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Bishop of Agen
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)
*Jean-Baptiste-Adrien Llosa (14 September 1938 – 26 July 1966 Retired)Casta, pp. 241–244.
* André Charles Collini (26 July 1966 Succeeded – 22 December 1972 Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of Toulouse)
* Jean-Charles Thomas (4 February 1974 – 23 December 1986 Appointed, Coadjutor Bishop of Versailles)
*Sauveur Casanova (13 August 1987 – 5 January 1995 Retired)
*
André Jean René Lacrampe
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He was born on 17 December 1941 in Agos-Vidalos, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France ...
, Ist. del Prado (5 January 1995 – 13 August 2003, Appointed
Archbishop of Besançon
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)
Since 2000
*Jean-Luc Brunin (6 May 2004 Appointed – 24 June 2011, Appointed
Bishop of Le Havre
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)
*
Olivier de Germay
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(22 February 2012 – 22 October 2020, Appointed
Archbishop of Lyon
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Catholic Church in France
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List of Catholic dioceses in France
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References
Books
*Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1861). ''Le chiese d'Italia' Tomo decimosesto Venezia: Giuseppe Antonelli. pp. 307–324. Retrieved: 2016-10-26.
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Acknowledgment
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External links
* Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France ''L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919'' retrieved: 2016-12-24.
Cathedral of Ajaccio * David M. Cheney, ''Catholic-Hierarchy'' Retrieved: 2016-10-26
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Ajaccio
Ajaccio (, , ; French: ; it, Aiaccio or ; co, Aiacciu , locally: ; la, Adiacium) is a French commune, prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud, and head office of the ''Collectivité territoriale de Corse'' (capital city of Corsica). ...
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 ...