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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ampurias was a Latin
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 ...
Catholic bishopric in the north of Sardinia (Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea) from 1070 till its suppression and merger with the Diocese of Civita-Tempio (which kept the cathedral see) into the present Roman Catholic Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias.


History

The bishopric of Ampurias, also known as Diocese of Flumen ('the stream' in Latin), was founded circa 1170, like 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 ...
(later renamed Civita), plausibly when
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reorganized the ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Sardinia, which was being temporally divided into four autonomous ''giudicati'' ('judgedoms'), corresponding to the administrative
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of
Anglona Anglona is a historical region of northern Sardinia, Italy. Its main center is Castelsardo. Geography Anglona is bounded by the sea northwards, from east by the Coghinas river, from south by Monte Sassu and from west by the Silis River and the ...
in the
Giudicato of Torres The Judicate of Logudoro or Torres ( sc, Judicadu de Logudoro or ''Torres'', ''Rennu de Logudoro'' or ''Logu de Torres'') was a state in northwest Sardinia from the tenth through the thirteenth century. Its original capital was Porto Torres. The r ...
, as
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 Torres. Its original episcopal see, Amurias, was an Ancient port town, presumably at the coast of Codaruìna near
Valledoria Valledoria (Gallurese: ''Codaruìna'', sc, Codaruìna, Sassarese: ''Codaruìna'') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Sassari situated at the center of the Gulf of Asinara, near the mouth of the Coghinas river. History Valledoria was par ...
by the bay of
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. Its original cathedral was dedicatated to the Apostle Peter, (now?) called San Pietro Mare ('Saint Peter by the Sea'). The first historically recorded Bishop of Ampurias, Bono, had a part around 1100 in the foundation of the monastery of San Nicolò di Solio, one of many founded in the diocese by the Cassinese Benedictine Congregation in the 11th and 12th centuries, thirteen of which depended on Santa Maria di Tergu; whether their possessions ware exempt from the episcopal authority remained a matter of continuous dispute, giving to several papal interventions in favor of the Benedictines, possibly culminating in the murder of the abbot of Santa Maria di Tergu shortly before 1203. According to the ''Rationes decimarum'' (mid 14th century), the diocese comprised 21 ''plebanies'' and rectories (parishes). The town of Ampurias faded with its port due to the sand-clogged bay of Coghinas, so in the 14th century the episcopal see was effectively transferred (without title change) to Castelgenovese (now Castelsardo), formalized in 1503 when Pope Julius II elevated the Benedictine priory of Sant'Antonio into the new diocesan cathedral, which presently remains co-cathedral in the successor bishopric. From 1506, the see of Ampurias was held in personal union (''aeque principaliter'') with the
Diocese of Civita 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 ...
, until they merged effectively on 1986.09.30, both formally being suppressed in favor of the (present) Diocese of Tempio–Ampurias (with cathedral see at Tempio Pausania, in former Civita) as
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of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sassari.


Suffragan Bishops of Ampurias

* Bono (1100? – 1106?) * Nicola (1106 – 1120) * Gilito (1149? – 1154?) * Archbishop-bishop Comita de Martis (1170? – 1179?), previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Oristano (Italy) (1146? – 1170?) * Pietro (1205? – ?) * Gennadio (1231? – ?) * Guglielmo (1255? – ?) * Giovanni (1269? – ?) * Summachio (1278? – ?) * Gonario (1283? – death 1300?) * Bartolomeo de Malague (1301.03.10 – 1332) * Lorenzo da Viterbo, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1329 – 1344), also Bishop of
Diocese of Civita 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 ...
(1330 – 1340?) * Giacomo (1332 – 1333) * Bernardino Rossi, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1344.06.14 – ?) * Matteo (1348? – ?) * Raimondo, O.P. (1349 – 1351.06.10) * Arduino (1353 – 1355) * Bertrando, O.P. (1355 – 1365.09.12), next Bishop of
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(Italy) (1365.09.12 – 1368?) * Pietro di San Martino, O.F.M. (1365 – 1386?) **''uncanonical: obedient to the
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at
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: Pietro (1379 – 1387)'' * Nicola (1386 – ?) * Marco (1386 – 1386) **''uncanonical: obedient to the Antipope at Avignon : Egidio da Murello (1393 – ?)'' * Pietro (1395 – 1401), next Bishop of
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, now France) (1401 – 1411) * Pietro Benedetto di Giovanni (1401 – 1413) * Tommaso di Bobbio (1413 – 1428) * Gavino (1428 – death 1443) * Sisinnio (1443.07.05 – 1448.10.23), previously Bishop of Sulci (1442.11.19 – 1443.07.05); later Bishop of Bisarcio (1448.10.23 – death 1466) * Gonario Gadulese (1448.09.23 – death 1449) * Gileto Esu (1449.10.01 – 1455) * Antonio de Alcalá (1457.05.16 – 1457?) * Nicola de Campo (1458.10.27 – death 1479) * Ludovico di Giovanni, O.F.M. (1480.08.20 – death 1486) * Diego de Nava, Augustinian Order (O.E.S.A.) (1486.10.02 – death 1493) * Francesco Manno (1493.11.27 – 1511), also Bishop of
Diocese of Civita 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 ...
(Italy) (1506.06.05 – 1511) : ''from 1506 in personal union ('aeque principaliter') with the
Diocese of Civita 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 ...
, hence see there for their common incumbents''


See also

* List of Catholic dioceses in Italy


Sources and external links


GCatholic - former diocese, with incumbent bio links - data for all sections



beweb.chiesacattolica.it - present (successor) Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias
; Bibliography * Antonio Felice Mattei, ''Sardinia sacra seu De episcopis sardis historia'', Rome 1761, pp. 117–119 (Fausania), pp. 180–191 (Ampurias) & pp. 275–280 (Civita) * Giuseppe Cappelletti, ''Le Chiese d'Italia della loro origine sino ai nostri giorni'', vol. XIII, Venice 1857, pp. 155–171 * Pietro Martini, ''Storia ecclesiastica di Sardegna'', vol. III, Cagliari 1841, pp. 349–353 * ''Enciclopedia della Sardegna'', vol. 1, Sassari 2007, pp. 156–159 * ''Diocese of Ampurias'', in Catholic Encyclopedia, New York, Encyclopedia Press, 1913. * Sebastiano Pintus, ''Vescovi di Fausania, Civita, Ampurias, Ampurias e Civita, oggidì di Ampurias e Tempio'', in ''Archivio storico sardo IV'' (1908), pp. 97–115 * Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, pp. 832–833 * Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 1, p. 86; vol. 2, pp. 86–87; vol. 3, p. 107; vol. 4, p. 81; vol. 5, p. 82; vol. 6, p. 80 * Papal Bulla 'Romanus Pontifex', in Michele Antonio Gazano, ''La storia della Sardegna'', Cagliari 1777, vol. II, pp. 160–162 * ''Decreto Instantibus votis'', AAS 79 (1987), pp. 636–639 * M. Maxia, ''La diocesi di Ampurias. Studio storico-onomastico sull’insediamento umano medievale'', Sassari 1997; * A. M. Oliva, ''La diocesi di Civita all’epoca dei re Cattolici'', in ''Da Olbìa ad Olbia, Atti del convegno internazionale di Studi, Olbia, 12-14 maggio 1994'', editor G. Meloni-P. F. Simbula, Sassari 1996, II, 277-290; * M. G. Sanna, ''Osservazioni cronotattiche e storiche su alcuni documenti relativi all’espansione cassinese nella diocesi di Ampurias sino alla metà del XII secolo'', in ''Castelsardo. 900 anni di Storia'', editor A. Mattone- A. Soddu, Rome 2007, 215-234. * 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 * R. Turtas, ''Storia della Chiesa in Sardegna. Dalle origini al Duemila'', Rome 1999; * R. Turtas, ''Erezione, traslazione e unione di diocesi in Sardegna durante il regno di Ferdinando II d’Aragona (1479-1516)'', in ''Vescovi e diocesi in Italia dal XIV alla metà del XVI secolo, Atti del convegno di Storia della Chiesa'', Brescia 21–25 September 1987, II, Rome 1990, 717-755 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ampurias, Roman Catholic Diocese Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Italy Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses