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The Diocese of Aleria (Latin ''Dioecesis Aleriensis'') was a
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, 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 by Arab fleets in the eighth and ninth centuries, and eventually abandoned, many of its people fleeing to the mainland. The bishop moved to a secure stronghold to the north. From at least the eleventh century, the diocese was a suffragan of the metropolitan
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. The diocese was suppressed by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, and was not revived after the
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between the French Consulate and the Papacy."Titular Episcopal See of Aléria"
''GCatholic.org.'' Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 It has been a titular diocese since 2002.


History

There is evidence that Corsica was being converted to
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in the late 6th century.
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wrote in 597 to Bishop Peter of Aleria to recover lapsed converts and to convert more pagans from the worship of trees and sacred stones (menhir). He sent him money for baptismal robes. In 601, however, Aleria was without a bishop. Gregory had sent a certain Bishop Leo as Apostolic Visitor to deal with the situation in Corsica, 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. While Leo was still in Corsica, Pope Gregory sent a second bishop, Martinus to join in the Visitation. With the Arab invasions, the town of Aleria was destroyed and abandoned. The bishop and cathedral retreated to the hillside town of Cervione, above the beach of Campoloro, some 25 km north of Aleria. In 846, Adelbert the ''tutor Corsicanae insulae'' informed
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that a force of 11,000 Saracens, with 73 ships and 500 cavalry, had come. Pope Leo IV (849–855) allowed the people of Corsica, who were fleeing from the Saracens, to settle in the town of Porto By the time of Pope Alexander II (1061–1073) there were several bishops functioning in Corsica again. In 1077 Pope Gregory VII (1073–1085) entrusted the dioceses of the island to the Bishop of Pisa as his Vicar. The Pope expresses happiness that the people of Corsica, after having for such a long time been subjected to the justice of the invaders, wish to return to the justice of the Holy Roman Church. In 1713 there were some 200 people living in Aleria, under the government of the Genoese, though ecclesiastically they belonged to the Metropolitan of Pisa. There were 18 towns and villages in the diocese. In 1770, at the beginning of the French domination of Corsica, the bishop no longer lived in Aléria, but in Cervione. The Cathedral Chapter had one dignity and twelve Canons. The diocese had 160 parishes. On 29 November 1801, in accordance with the Napoleontic
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, it was suppressed as the territory of the diocese of Ajaccio was extended to the whole of Corsica. Today, Aleria is no longer a residential bishopric, but the name was revived as a
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in April 2002.


Bishops of Aleria


to 1300

*Peter (596, 597) *Bonosus (attested 649) * Landulphus (Landolf) (1093 – after 1119) * gnotus(708) (consecrated by Pope Sisinnius) * Hieronymus (1122 – ?) * Marco de Volaterres (1139 – ?) * Blaise (1172 – ?) * Flavius (1179 – ?) * Anthony (1190 – ?) * Clement (1217 – ?) * Nicholas (1228 – ?) * Lombardo Cuneo (1239 – ?) * Orlandu Cortincu della Petrallarretta (1249 – ?) * Landolf (1257 – ?) * Lombard (1258 – ?) * Nicolao Fortiguerra, O.P. (1270 – ? ) * Bartolomeo de Benevento, O.P. (1274 – ? ) * Orlandu Cortincu (1289 – ? )


1300 to 1500

* Salvin (1300 – ?) * Guglielmo (1309 – ?) * Gerardo Orlandini (1322 – 1330) * Galgano Bocca di Bue, O.Min. (1330 – 1342) * Guglielmo Arcumbaldi (1342 – 1345) * Arnald,
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(O.P.) (1345.07.30 – ?), previously Bishop of
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(Italy) (1333.10.30 – 1345.07.30)Eubel, I, p. 82. * Raimond (1354 – ?) * Johannes (1360 – 1362) * Biagio (Blaise), O.P. (1362 – ?) * Salvino da Nebbio (1366 – 1405) * Bartholomaeus (1406 – 1410) * Ottobonus Lomellino (18 Feb 1411 – ?) * Ioannes Leonis, O.P. (1440) * Ambrughju d’Omessa (1440 – 1464) * Giovanni Andrea Bussi (1469 – death 1475) * Cardinal Ardicino della Porta (22 Feb 1465 – death 4 Feb 1493) Della Porta was created
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of Santi Giovanni e Paolo by Pope Innocent VIII on 9 March 1489; he was also
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of
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(Bohemia) (1489–1493). Eubel, II, pp. 20, 85, 206 with note 5. * Girolamo Pallavicini (1493 – 1512> )


since 1500

* Cardinal
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(1518.06.19 – 1520.12.19)
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* Francesco Pallavicini (1520 – 1550) * Pietro Francesco Pallavicini (1551 – death 1570) * Alessandro Sauli, (B.) (1570.02.10 – 1591.05.10) * Ottavio Belmosto (1591.07.31 – 1608)Belmosto was a priest of the diocese of Genoa, and a ''Doctor in utroque iure'' (Civil and Canon Law); he was Abbot Commendatory of the monastery of S. Maria de Matina. He needed a dispensation for consecration, since he had only been in Holy Orders for five months when named bishop. Eubel, III, p. 102 with note 8. Belmosto was later Bishop of
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(Italy) (1591.10.30 – death 1592.10.11) and was later created
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of S. Carlo ai Catinari (1616.10.17 – death 1618.11.16) * Domenico Rivarola (1608.12.10 – 1609.03.30) Rivarola was later Metropolitan Archbishop of Nazareth–Canne–Monteverde in Barletta (Italy) (1609.03.30 – death 1627.01.03), created
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of
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(1611.09.12 – death 1627.01.03) * Giovanni Sauli (Scali, Sacchi) (1609 – 1611) * Giovan Francesco Murta (de Mirto) (1611 – 1612) * Dezio Giustiniani (1612 – 1642) * Cardinal Ottaviano Raggi (1643) * Agostino Donghi (1643 – 1645) * Cardinal Ottaviano Raggi,
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. (1643.01.12 – 1643.12.31) * Giovanni Battista Imperiali (1645 – 1674) * Mario Emmanuelle Durazzo (1674 – 1704) * Raffaele Raggi, B. (3 March 1705 – 20 Sep 1712) * Carlo Maria Giuseppe de Fornari (30 Jan 1713 – 20 Feb 1715) * Agostino Saluzzo,
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(C.M.) (1715 – 1720) * Camillo de Mari (1720 – death 1741) * Girolamo Curlo (1741 – 1749) * Matteu d’Angelis (1750 – death 1769) * Jean-Joseph-Marie de Guernes (1770.08.06 – 29 November 1801)De Guernes was born in the diocese of Limoges. He held a batchelor degree in theology and a licenciate in Civil and Canon Law. He was Vicar-General of the diocese of Riez, and then Vicar-General of Auxerre. Ritzler, VI, p. 74 with note 4.


Titular bishops of Aleria

* Guido Fiandino (2002.06.21 – ...), retired, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of
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References


Books

*Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1861). ''Le chiese d'Italia'
Tomo decimosesto
Venezia: Giuseppe Antonelli. pp. 326–353. Retrieved: 2016-10-26. * (in Latin) * * * * *Kehr, Paulus Fridolin (1975). ed. D. Girgensohn. ''Italia Pontificia''. Vol. X: Calabria—Insulae (Turici: Weidmann). * * * *


See also

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