The Roman Catholic Diocese of Civita(-Tempio) was a Latin Catholic bishopric in the
Gallura region of northern
Sardinia (
Tyrrhenian Sea, southwestern
Italy).
It was heir to the ancient diocese of Pausania or Phausania ( it, Fausania) (6th to 8th? century), restored in 1070 as the
Diocese of Gallura The Roman Catholic Diocese of Civita(-Tempio) was a Latin Catholic bishopric in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia (Tyrrhenian Sea, southwestern Italy).
It was heir to the ancient diocese of Pausania or Phausania ( it, Fausania) (6th to 8th? c ...
, in 1113 renamed after its episcopal seat as the Diocese of Civita. In 1839 it was renamed as Diocese of Civita–Tempio, until its formal suppression in 1986, when it was merged into the
Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias
The Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias ( la, Dioecesis Templensis-Ampuriensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Sardinia, Italy. Until 1986 it was known as Diocese of Ampurias e Tempio. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sassari
It ...
(effectively absorbing the
Diocese of Ampurias, with which it had been held in personal union since 1506).
Ancient diocese of Fausania
No later than the sixth century, a Roman bishopric was established at a place called Pausania or Phausania, which may be
Olbia,
Tempio Pausania or even
Posada
Posada may refer to:
*Battle of Posada, a 1330 battle, part of the Hungarian-Wallachian Wars
Places In Poland
*Posada, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-west Poland
* Posada, Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland
*Posada, Masovian Voivodeship, east- ...
(50 km south of Olbia).
While local Saint Simplicius is traditionally revered as its 4th century founding first bishop, a historical thesis
[Raimondo Turtas, ''La Riforma tridentina nelle diocesi di Ampurias e Civita: dalle relazioni «ad limina» dei vescovi Giovanni Sanna, Filippo de Marymon e Giacomo Passamar (1586-1622)'', in ''Studi in onore di Pietro Meloni'', Sassari 1988, pp. 233–259] holds it may have been (re?)founded by Catholic bishop(s) exiled by king
Huneric of the
Vandal Kingdom after his council of Carthage replaced them with
Donatist heretic counterparts, only to be abandoned again due to the 552 invasion of the
Ostrogoths under king
Totila.
Its first historical mention is in 594, when Pope
Gregory the Great invites its Metropolitan, the
Archdiocese of Cagliari, to nominate a candidate for the vacant see. Its first documented incumbent, bishop Victor, was mentioned in a papal letter in 599, recalling his work to evangelize the pagan locals, and attended a synod in Rome in 600.
The see of Phausania is still listed in the Byzantine ''Notitia Episcopatuum '' until circa 1000; but this may well have been a refusal to canonically acknowledge the diocese being effectively wiped much earlier, plausibly in the 8th century by Arab invaders.
Diocese of Civita(-Tempio)
250px, The Basilica of San Simplicio in Olbia (former cathedral of Civita)
The bishopric was only restored probably in 1070, as Diocese of Gallura, named after the
Giudicato of Gallura
The Judicate of Gallura ( lat, Iudicatus Gallurae, sc, Judicadu de Gallura, it, Giudicato di Gallura) was one of four Sardinian judicates in the Middle Ages. These were independent states whose rulers bore the title ''iudex'', judge. Gallura, a ...
, one of the four autonomous temporal jurisdictions into which
Pope Alexander II
Pope Alexander II (1010/1015 – 21 April 1073), born Anselm of Baggio, was the head of the Roman Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1061 to his death in 1073. Born in Milan, Anselm was deeply involved in the Pataria refor ...
(1061-1073) divided the island, but is first recorded on a map dated 1095.
In the 11th century, the
Basilica of San Simplicio was erected (in
Olbia, then called Civita) as diocesan
cathedral.
The see was exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the
Holy See (not part of any
ecclesiastical province, just as the region's second bishopric, the
Diocese of Galtellì
The Italian Catholic diocese of Nuoro ( la, Dioecesis Nuorensis) is in Sardinia. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Cagliari. Historically it was the diocese of Galtellì until 1779, and then the diocese of Galtellì-Nuoro until 1928. , which may have been founded as late as 1113, when the (remainder?) bishopric of Gallura was renamed after its see as Diocese of Civita. In 1138, the
papal bulla ''Tunc apostolicae sedis'', from
Pope Innocent II
Pope Innocent II ( la, Innocentius II; died 24 September 1143), born Gregorio Papareschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 14 February 1130 to his death in 1143. His election as pope was controversial and the fi ...
, made both
suffragan
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
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 Metropolitan
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 [1717, Pisan and on 31 J ... has been Giovanni Paolo Benotto.
History
In a letter of ...
on the Italian peninsula (and capital of the dogal state which colonized part of the island), but it seems both were rendered exempt again later in that century, unlike the other three ''giudicati'', where Metropolitans of their own were established.
It has had some uncanonical incumbents, not obedient to the canonical Popes of Rome, two rather to the Antipopes in Avignon.
From 1506.06.05, the see was held in personal union ('United ''aeque principaliter'' ') with the neighboring
Diocese of Ampurias until they were formally merged on 1986.09.30 and renamed as the present
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias). Meanwhile, on 1839.08.26, the see of Civita had been renamed as Diocese of Civita–Tempio. After the merger, the former cathedral at Olbia (the former Civita) remained only a
minor basilica, while the cathedral see is the Cattedrale di S. Pietro Apostolo, at Tempio-Pausania.
Episcopal Ordinaries
(all
Roman Rite
The Roman Rite ( la, Ritus Romanus) is the primary liturgical rite of the Latin Church, the largest of the ''sui iuris'' particular churches that comprise the Catholic Church. It developed in the Latin language in the city of Rome and, while dist ...
)
;''Suffragan Bishops of Civita''
: first centuries unavailable
* Tommaso Sferrato,
Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1351 – 1353), later Bishop of
Cagli (Italy) (1353 – 1378), Bishop of
Marsico Nuovo (Italy) (1378 – 1384)
* Gerardo, O.F.M. (1353.11.06 – 1362), ''previously uncanonical Bishop of
Caorle (1348 – 1350?)''
* Alfonso (1363 – 1383)
** ''uncanonical, obedient to Avignon: Siffredo di Tommaso,
Carmelite Order
, image =
, caption = Coat of arms of the Carmelites
, abbreviation = OCarm
, formation = Late 12th century
, founder = Early hermits of Mount Carmel
, founding_location = Mount Ca ...
(O. Carm.) (1383 – 1388)''
** ''uncanonical, obedient to Avignon: Francesco de Marginibus (1390 – ?)''
* Simone(1390 – ?)
* Simone Margens (1401 – 1407)
* Angelo (1409? – ?)
* Sancio (? – 1433.01.14), next Bishop of
Minervino (1433.01.14 – 1434)
* Lorenzo Scopulart,
Dominican Order (O.P.) (1439? – ?)
* Agostino di Poggibonsi,
Augustinian Order O.E.S.A. (1442? – death 1443)
* Antonio de Fontanis, O.F.M. (1443.10.30 – 1460)
* Rodrigo de Sesse, O.F.M. (1460 – death 1490)
* Pedro Stornell, O.P. (1490 – 1506? death 1510)
;''Suffragan Bishops of Civita (and of Ampurias)''
:''from 1506 all incumbents of Civita are simultaneously Bishop of Ampurias (Italy) ''aeque principaliter''
* Francesco Manno (1506.06.05 – 1511), already (and ''last separate) Bishop of Ampurias (Italy) (1493.11.27 – 1511)''
* Luis González, O.F.M. (1513.06.08 – death 1538)
* Giorgio Artea (1538 – 1545)
* Luis de Casas, O.E.S.A. (1545.05.22 – ?)
* Francisco Tomás (1558.05.23 – death 1572)
* Pedro Narro,
Benedictine Order
, image = Medalla San Benito.PNG
, caption = Design on the obverse side of the Saint Benedict Medal
, abbreviation = OSB
, formation =
, motto = (English: 'Pray and Work')
, foun ...
(O.S.B.) (1572.07.30 – 1574.10.22), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
Oristano (Italy) (1574.10.22 – death 1577)
* Gaspare Vincenzo Novella (1575.09.18 – 1578.10.06), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
Cagliari
Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...
(Sardinia, Italy) (1578.10.06 – 1586.08.24) and Bishop of
Iglesias (Italy) (1578.10.06 – death 1586.08.24)
* Miguel Rubio,
Cistercian Order (O. Cist.) (1579.06.26 – 1586)
* Giovanni Sanna (1586 – death 1606)
* Diego Passamar (1613 – 1622.06.13), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
Sassari
Sassari (, ; sdc, Sàssari ; sc, Tàtari, ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 127,525 inhabitants, and a Functional Urban Area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, ...
(Sardinia, Italy) (1622.06.13 – death 1644)
* Giovanni de la Bronda (1622 – 1633)
* Andrea Manca (1633 – 1644.07.13), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
Sassari
Sassari (, ; sdc, Sàssari ; sc, Tàtari, ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 127,525 inhabitants, and a Functional Urban Area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, ...
(Sardinia, Italy) (1644.07.13 – death 1652)
* Gavino Manca Figo (1644.10.17 – death 1652)
* Gaspare Litago (1652.04.29 – 1656.07.26), previously Bishop of
Bosa
Bosa is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Oristano (until May 2005 it was in the province of Nuoro), part of the Sardinia region of Italy. Bosa is situated about two-thirds of the way up the west coast of Sardinia, on a small hill, abou ...
(Italy) (1645.04.24 – 1652.04.29); later Metropolitan Archbishop of
Sassari
Sassari (, ; sdc, Sàssari ; sc, Tàtari, ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 127,525 inhabitants, and a Functional Urban Area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, ...
(Sardinia, Italy) (1656.07.26 – 1657)
* Lorenzo Sampero (1656.08.28 – 1669)
* Pedro de Alagó y de Cardona (1669.08.05 – 1672.01.15), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
Oristano (Italy) (1672.01.15 – 1684),
Archbishop-Bishop of
Mallorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean.
The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...
(Balearic Spain) (1684 – 1701)
* José Sanchis i Ferrandis,
Mercederians (O. de M.) (1672.02.22 – 1673), next Bishop of
Segorbe (Spain) (1673 – 1680.02.28), Metropolitan Archbishop of
Tarragona (Spain) (1680.02.28 – death 1694.03.26)
* Juan Bautista Sorribas, O. Carm. (1673.09.25 – death 1679)
* Giuseppe Acorrà (1679.09.25 – 1685.04.30), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
Oristano (Italy) (1685.04.30 – 1702)
* Francesco Sampero (1685.10.01 – 1688)
* Michele Villa (1688.11.19 – 1700)
* Diego Serafino Posulo,
Dominican Order (O.P.) (1702.12.11 – 1718)
* Angelo Galcerin,
Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.) (1727.05.17 – death 1735)
* Giovanni Leonardo Sanna (1736.09.26 – 1737.09.30), next Bishop of
Bosa
Bosa is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Oristano (until May 2005 it was in the province of Nuoro), part of the Sardinia region of Italy. Bosa is situated about two-thirds of the way up the west coast of Sardinia, on a small hill, abou ...
(Italy) (1737.09.30 – death 1741.10)
* Vincenzo Giovanni Vico Torrellas (1737.09.30 – 1741.07.03), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
Oristano (Italy) (1741.07.03 – death 1744)
* Salvator Angelo Cadello (1741.07.05 – death 1764)
* Pietro Paolo Carta (1764 – death 1771)
* Francesco Ignazio Guiso (1772 – death 1778)
* Giovanni Antonio Arras Minutili (1779 – death 1784)
* Michele Pes (1785.02.14 – death 1804)
* Giuseppe Stanislao Paradisi (1807.09.18 – 1819.03.29), next Bishop of
Ales Ales may refer to:
Places
* Alès, a town and commune in southern France
* Ales, Sardinia, a small town in the province of Oristano on Sardinia in Italy
People with the surname
* Alexander Ales (1500–1565), Scottish theologian
* Mikoláš Aleš ...
(Italy) (1819.03.29 – death 1822) and Bishop of
Terralba
Terralba ( sc, Terraba) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and former Latin Catholic bishopric in the Province of Oristano in the Italian island region Sardinia, located about northwest of Cagliari and about south of Oristano.
Terralba borders the ...
(Italy) (1819.03.29 – 1822)
* Stanislao Mossa (1823 – death 1827.04.09)
;''Suffragan Bishops of Civita–Tempio; ''all still also Bishop of Ampurias ''aeque principaliter''
* Diego Capece (1833.04.15 – death 1855.08)
* Filippo Campus (1871.11.24 – death 1887)
* Paolo Pinna (1887.05.23 – death 1892.11.17), previously
Titular Bishop of
Europus (1882.07.03 – 1887.05.23) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Alghero (Italy) (1882.07.03 – 1887.05.23)
* Antonio Maria Contini (1893.01.16 – 1914), previously Bishop of
Ogliastra
The province of Ogliastra ( it, provincia dell'Ogliastra , sc, provìntzia de s'Ogiastra) was a former province in eastern Sardinia, Italy. Ogliastra was the most mountainous province in Sardinia. With only some 57,642 inhabitants, it was also t ...
(Italy) (1882.09.26 – 1893.01.16)
* Giovanni Maria Sanna, O.F.M. Conv. (1914.12.14 – 1922.05.12), next Bishop of
Gravina (Italy) (1922.05.12 – retired 1953.04.15) and Bishop of
Irsina (Italy) (1922.05.12 – 1953.04.15), emeritate as
Titular Bishop of
Eucarpia (1953.04.15 – death 1956.10.07)
* Albino Morera (1922.12.14 – retired 1950.12.09), emeritate as Titular Bishop of
Gurza (1950.12.09 – death 1952.03.20)
* Carlo Re,
Consolata Missionaries
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(I.M.C.) (1951.12.29 – retired 1961.02.10), previously Titular Bishop of
Hadrumetum (1931.12.14 – 1951.12.29) as
Apostolic Vicar of
Nyeri (
Kenya) (1931.12.14 – 1947) and
Apostolic Administrator of
Apostolic Prefecture of Meru
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History
* March 10, 1926: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Meru from the Apostolic V ...
(Kenya) (1932 – 1936.09.16); later emeritate as Titular Bishop of
Aspona (1961.02.10 – death 1978.08.12)
* Mario Ghiga (1961.02.10 – death 1963.03.31)
* Giovanni Melis Fois (1963.05.25 – 1970.11.07), next Bishop of
Nuoro (Italy) (1970.11.07 – retired 1992.04.16); died 2009
* Carlo Urru (1971.03.07 – 1982.04.21), next Bishop of
Città di Castello (Italy) (1982.04.21 – 1991.02.07); died 2002
* Pietro Meloni (1983.06.09 – ''see suppression 1986.09.30), next first Bishop of successor see
Tempio-Ampurias (Italy)'' (1986.09.30 – 1992.04.16), Bishop of
Nuoro (Italy) (1992.04.16 – retired 2011.04.21).
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Italy
*
Roman Catholic Diocese of Civita Castellana
The Diocese of Civita Castellana ( la, Dioecesis Civitatis Castellanae) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Latium, central Italy. It has existed in the current form since 1986, when the Diocese of Ne ...
, near-samesake
References
Sources and external links
GCatholic - Diocese of Civitate-Tempio (&precursors); Bibliography - Fausania
* Francesco Lanzoni, ''Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII'' (an. 604), vol. II, Faenza 1927, pp. 677–679
* Raffaela Bucolo, ''Fausania (Olbia?)'', in Raffaela Bucolo (editor), ''Le sedi episcopali della Sardegna paleocristiana. Riflessioni topografiche'', Rivista di archeologia cristiana 86 (2010), pp. 378–383
* Pier Giorgio Ignazio Spanu, ''La Sardegna bizantina tra 6 e 7 secolo'', Oristano 1998, pp. 114–119
; Bibliography - Civita
* ''Enciclopedia della Sardegna'', vol. 3, Sassari 2007, pp. 29–30
* Luigi Agus, ''San Simplicio in Olbia e la diocesi di Civita. Studio artistico e socio-religioso dell'edificio medievale'', Catanzaro 2009
* Giacomo Floris, ''Signoria, incastellamento e riorganizzazione di un territorio nel tardo Medioevo: il caso della Gallura'', Universitat de Barcelona 2013
* Anna Maria Oliva, ''La diocesi di Civita all'epoca dei re cattolici'', in ''Da Olbìa ad Olbia. 2500 anni di storia di una città mediterranea'', Chiarella Editrice, Sassari 1996, pp. 277–289
* Angelo Aldo Castellaccio, ''Olbia nel medioevo. Aspetti politico-istituzionali'', in ''Da Olbìa ad Olbia. 2500 anni di storia di una città mediterranea'', Edes - Editrice Democratica Sarda, Sassari 2004, pp. 33–70
* Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 1, pp. 188–189; vol. 2, p. 129
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Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Italy
Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses
