The Diocese of Vieste (Latin: ''Dioecesis Vestanus'') was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town in the
province of Foggia
The Province of Foggia ( it, Provincia di Foggia ; Foggiano: ) is a province in the Apulia (Puglia) region of southern Italy.
This province is also known as Daunia, after the Daunians, an Iapygian pre-Roman tribe living in Tavoliere plain, and ...
Italy
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. On 27 June 1818, the diocese of Viesti was granted to the archbishops of Siponto (Manfredonia) as perpetual Administrators. On 30 September 1986, the diocese of Viesti was suppressed, its territory incorporated into the archdiocese of Siponto, and renamed the Archdiocese of Manfredonia–Vieste. Its former
cathedral
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, named in honor of the Assumption of the body of the Virgin Mary into heaven, is now the Vieste Co-cathedral and, like nearly all cathedrals in Italy, a
minor basilica
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.
History
Pope Paschal II
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confirmed the Church of Vieste to be a suffragan of the archbishops of Siponto (Manfredonia). Paschal held a synod at Siponti in the spring of 1117, and it is suggested by Kehr that it was on this occasion that his confirmation of ecclesiastical privileges was made. Vieste was confirmed as a suffragan of the archbishops of Siponto in the time of
Pope Alexander III
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A native of Siena, Alexander became pope after a con ...
(1159–1181).
The city of Viesti was destroyed in 1554 by a Saracen fleet.
After Napoleon
Following the extinction of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the
Congress of Vienna
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authorized the restoration of the Papal States and the Kingdom of Naples. Since the French occupation had seen the abolition of many Church institutions in the Kingdom, as well as the confiscation of most Church property and resources, it was imperative that
Pope Pius VII
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and
King Ferdinand IV
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reach agreement on restoration and restitution.
A concordat was finally signed on 16 February 1818, and ratified by Pius VII on 25 February 1818. Ferdinand issued the concordat as a law on 21 March 1818. The re-erection of the dioceses of the kingdom and the ecclesiastical provinces took more than three years. The right of the king to nominate the candidate for a vacant bishopric was recognized, as in the Concordat of 1741, subject to papal confirmation (preconisation). On 27 June 1818, Pius VII issued the bull ''De Ulteriore'', in which he reestablished the metropolitan archbishopric of Siponto (Manrfredonia), but with no suffragan dioceses at all. The diocese of Viesti was given to the archbishop of Siponto in perpetual administratorship.
Diocesan Reorganization
Following the
Second Vatican Council
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, and in accordance with the norms laid out in the council's decree, ''Christus Dominus'' chapter 40, Pope Paul VI ordered a reorganization of the ecclesiastical provinces in southern Italy.
Pope Paul VI
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ordered consultations among the members of the Congregation of Bishops in the Vatican Curia, the Italian Bishops Conference, and the various dioceses concerned.
On 18 February 1984, the Vatican and the Italian State signed new and revised concordat Based on the revisions, a set of ''Normae'' was issued on 15 November 1984, which was accompanied in the next year, on 3 June 1985, by enabling legislation. According to the agreement, the practice of having one bishop govern two separate dioceses at the same time, ''aeque personaliter'', was abolished. The Vatican continued consultations which had begun under
Pope John XXIII
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for the merging of small dioceses, especially those with personnel and financial problems, into one combined diocese.
On 30 September 1986,
Pope John Paul II
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ordered that the dioceses of Siponto and Viesti be merged into one diocese with one bishop, with the Latin title ''Archidioecesis Sipontina-Vestana''. The seat of the diocese was to be in Manfredonia, and its cathedral was to serve as the cathedral of the merged diocese. The cathedral in Viesti was to have the honorary titles of "co-cathedral"; the cathedral Chapter was to be a ''Capitulum Concathedralis''. There was to be only one diocesan Tribunal, in Manfredonia, and likewise one seminary, one College of Consultors, and one Priests' Council. The territory of the new diocese was to include the territory of the suppressed dioceses of Viesti. The town of Rignano Garganico, however, was detached from the diocese, and assigned to the diocese of S. Severo.
Augustinian Order
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* Elia Seguini, O.P. (1343.10.27 – 1349)
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* Cristoforo (1361 – 1371)
* Rainaldo di Monte Sant’Angelo, O.F.M. (9 June 1371 – 1385?)
* Samparinus (1385? – 1387)
* Antonio (13 August 1387 – 24 March 1390) ''Roman Obedience''
*Guilelmus Simonelli (1387 – 1420) ''Avignon Obedience''
* Samparino (1390 – death 1403) ''Roman Obedience''
* Lorenzo de Gilotto (1403 – 1405) ''Roman Obedience''
* Francesco (1405 – 1420?) ''Roman Obedience''
* Giovanni de Ruvo (1420 – after 1440)
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* Benedetto Bernardi, O.P. (1477 – 1495)
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Ugo Boncompagni
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José Esteve Juan
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* Maschio Ferracuti (1589.10.25 – death 1613.07.14)
* Muzio Vitali (1613.11.13 – death 1615)"Bishop Muzio Vitali" ''
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* Paolo Palumbo, C.R. (1615.05.18 – 1617)On 17 April 1617, Bishop Palumbo was transferred to the diocese of
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(Italy). He was then named Bishop of Ariano (Italy) (1645–1647. He died in 1647.
* Ambrogio Palumbo, O.P. (1618.02.12 – death 1641)
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* Giovanni Mastelloni (1654.10.19 – death 1668.07.28)
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Raimondo del Pozzo
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(1695.02.07 – death 1696.10.21); previously Bishop of Alessano (1666 – 1695.02.07)
* Francesco Antonio Volturale (1697.01.14 – death 1697.10.18)
* Lorenzo Kreutter de Corvinis, O.S.B. Silv. (1697.11.20 – death 1701.07.14)
* Giovanni Antonio Ruggiero (1703.05.14 – death 1704.10.08)
* Camillo Caravita (1704.12.15 – death 1713.09.24)
* Giuseppe Grisconi,
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(1718.01.24 – death 1719.09.16)
* Marco Antonio De Marco (1720.04.15 – 1725.03.21); later Metropolitan Archbishop of
Manfredonia
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(1748.12.16 – death 1764.05.27)
* Giuseppe Maruca (1764.08.20 – death 1784.12.27)
* Dominicus Arcaroli (1792.03.26 – 1817.11.10); previously Bishop of
Lavello
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(1776.01.29 – 1792.03.26); emeritate as
Titular Archbishop
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of
Bostra
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Vieste
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