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with a population of over 6000 people in the province of Crotone, in

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, southernmost

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History

In Antiquity, Strongoli was the site of Petelia, said to have been founded by Philoctetes. It is the birthplace of Italian baroque composer Leonardo Vinci.

Ecclesiastical History

Some historians claim that Ancient Petelia already was a bishopric, established perhaps in 546 or then adopting the city's new medieval name Strongoli, but without solid evidence, and the see in never mentioned in the Byzantine imperial ''Notitia Episcopatuum'' of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which most dioceses in Calabria belonged to in the 9th till 11th centuries, so its foundation may rather date from the Normans, probably late 12th century. The first historical record of the Diocese of Strongoli (Curiate Italian) / Strongulen(sis) (Latin adjective) is a papal bulla from Pope Lucius III in 1183, naming it among the suffragans of the Archdiocese of Santa Severina (while confirming the Metropolitan's privileges). The tiny bishopric, comprising solely the municipality of Strongoli, was confined by the

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, Diocese of Crotone (separated by the river Neto), the Diocese of Umbriatico and its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Santa Severina. Its

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was the Church of Peter and Paul (chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo), the episcopal city's only parish. Yet between the 14th and 16th centuries, the diocese harbored a monastery of the Conventual Friars Minor (Santa Maria delle Grazie), an Augustinian convent (Santa Maria del Popolo), a Capuchin monastery (San Francesco d'Assisi) and some fifteen churches and chapels.http://www.archiviostoricocrotone.it/chiese-e-castelli/notizie-su-alcuni-luoghi-religiosi-in-territorio-di-strongoli/ ''Notizie su alcuni luoghi religiosi in territorio di Strongoli'' on the website of Crotone's historical archive On 1818.06.27 the see was suppressed, its territory being merged into the then Diocese of Cariati.

Residential Ordinaries

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) :incomplete : first centuries lacking ;''Suffragan Bishops of Strongoli'' * Madio ? (mentioned in 1178) * Ireneo =Irenaeus (il 1179) * Anonimous (bishop(s?) (mentioned in 1215; in 1219; in 1223) * Wiliam = Guglielmo (in 1246) * Peter = Pietro I,

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(O.S.B.) (30 January 1255 - 1266/1267) 0* Johannes = Giovanni (fl. June 1284 - April 1286) : TO ELABORATE from the Italian Wiki * Ruggero (1282 – 1290.11.11), next Bishop of Rapolla (Italy) (1290.11.11 – 1305) * Francesco (1291 – death 1297) * Uguccio,

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(O.P.) (1297.03.18 – ?) * Simone (? – ?) * Ruggero (1322? – ?) * Pietro (1330.09.10 – 1342) * Tommaso de Rosa, ?Conventual

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(O.F.M.) (1342.11.13 – death 1351) * Alamanno (1351.05.30 – ?) * Pietro (? – ?) * Raimondo (? – ?) * Paolo de’ Medici, ?Conventual O.F.M. (1374.07.14 – ?) * Vito (1375.09.27 – 1385.04.28); next ''uncanonical Bishop of Tricarico (Italy) (1385.04.28 – 1399.11)'', then canonical Bishop of Tricarico (Italy) (1399.11 – death 1403) * Antonio (1389.06.18 – ?) * Giacomo (1400.04.28 – 1402.10.09), previously Bishop of Anglona (1399.05.17 – 1400.04.28); later Bishop of Ales (Italy) (1402.10.09 – 1403.08.03), Bishop of Lavello (1403.08.03 – ?) * Pietro (1407.07.23 – death 1413) * Antonio de Podio (1418.03.09 – 1429.12.23), previously ''uncanonical Bishop of Bosa (Italy) (1410.05.23 – 1418.03.09)''; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Severina (Italy) (1429.12.23 – death 1453) * Tommaso Rossi (1429.12.23 – death 1433), previously Bishop of Cerenzia (1420.12.23 – 1429.05.18), Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (Italy) (1429.05.18 – 1429.12.23) * Domenico Rossi (1433.12.14 – death 1470) * Nicola Balestrari (1470.03.11 – ?) * Giovanni di Castello (1479.04.21 – 1486.05.10), next Bishop of Carinola (Italy) (1486.05.10 – death 1501?) * Giovanni Antonio Gotti (1486.05.10 – ?) * Girolamo Lusco (1496.12.02 – death 1509) * Gaspare de Murgiis (1509.11.21 – ?) **

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Cardinal Girolamo Grimaldi (1534.05.10 – 1535.11.15), while

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of S. Giorgio in Velabro (1528.04.27 – 1543.11.27), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Brugnato (Italy) (1528.09.25 – 1535.06.06), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Venafro (Italy) (1528.10.09 – 1536.06.02), Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Bari e Canosa (Italy) (1530.09.02 – 1540.08.20); later Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Albenga (Italy) (1538.11.15 – 1543.11.27) * Pietro Ranieri (1535.11.15 – ?) * Girolamo Zacconi (1541.05.20 – 1558.06.15) * Matteo Zacconi (1558.06.15 – death 1565) * Tommaso Orsini (1566.08.15 – 1568.01.23), next Bishop of

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(Italy) (1568.01.23 – 1576.01.25) * Timoteo Giustiniani,

(O.P.) (1568.04.05 – death 1571); previously last Bishop of Ario (Crete, insular Greece) (1550.06.27 – 1551.10.05), first Bishop of Retimo–Ario (Crete, insular Greece) (1551.10.05 – 1564.04.15), Bishop of

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(insular Greece) (1564.04.15 – 1568.04.05) * Gregorio Forbicini (1572.01.23 – death 1579) * Rinaldo Corso (1579.08.03 – death 1582) * Domenico Petrucci (1582.04.27 – 1584.07.23), next Bishop of Bisignano (Italy) (1584.07.23 – death 1598) * Giovanni Luigi Marescotti (1585.01.14 – death 1587.01.03) * Claudio Marescotti,

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(O.S.B.) (1587.02.18 – death 1590.02.24) * Claudio Vico (1590.03.21 – ?) * Marcello Lorenzi (1600.01.31 – death 1601) * Sebastiano Ghislieri (1601.04.30 – death 1627.10.02) * '' Archbishop-bishop'' Bernardino Piccoli (1627.10.02 – death 1636), succeeding as former

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of Nicæa (1621.12.15 – 1627.10.02) and

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of Strongoli (1621.12.15 – 1627.10.02) * Sallustio Bartoli (1636.11.10 – death 1637.05) * Giulio Diotallevi (1637.12.14 – death 1638.09) * Carlo Diotallevi (1639.05.02 – death 1652.03) * Martino Denti de’ Cipriani,

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(B.) (1652.08.26 – death 1655) * Biagio Mazzella, O.P. (1655.10.25 – 1663.02.26), next Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy) (1663.02.26 – death 1664) * Antonio Maria Camalda (1663.07.02 – death 1690.12) * Giovanni Battista Carrone (1691.12.19 – death 1706.04) * Domenico Marzano (1719.03.28 – 1735.07.27), next Bishop of Bova (Italy) (1735.07.27 – death 1752) * Gaetano de Arco (1736 – 1741.03.06), next Bishop of Nusco (Italy) (1741.03.06 – death 1753.05.25) * Ferdinando Mandarani (1741.07.31 – 1748.01.29), next Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (Italy) (1748.01.29 – 1769.11.09) * Domenico Morelli (1748.01.29 – death 1793?) * Pasquale Petruccelli (1793.06.17 – death 1796?98) *''Sede vacante'' (1798 - see suppressed 1818)

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as

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of Strongoli (Italian) / Strongulen(sis) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : * Nicolaas Verhoeven, Sacred Heart Missionaries (M.S.C.) (1969.06.26 – resigned 1976.09.15) as emeritate, died 1981; previously

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of Hermonthis (1947.03.13 – 1961.01.03) as last

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(

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) (1947.03.13 – 1961.01.03), (see) promoted first Bishop of

(Indonesia) (1961.01.03 – 1969.06.26) * Olavio López Duque, Augustinian Recollects (O.A.R.) (1977.05.30 – death 2013.06.11) as Apostolic Vicar of Casanare (

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) (1977.05.30 – 1999.10.29), as

of Diocese of Yopal (Colombia) (1999.10.29 – 2001.06.22) and on emeritate * Barthol Barretto (2016.12.20 – ...),

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of Archdiocese of Bombay (

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) (2016.12.20 – ...).

Economy

Strongoli relies on the production of oil,

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es and intensive

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breeding.

References

Sources and external links

GCatholic

Beweb - Rossano-Cariati diocese
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