Roman Catholic Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti
Latin:Dioecesis Altamurensis-Gravinensis-Aquavievensis
Country:Italy
Province:Bari-Bitonto
Area Km2:1,309
Population:169,730 (est.)
Population As Of:2020
Catholics:165,730 (guess)
Catholics Percent:98.8
Parishes:40
Denomination:Catholic Church
Rite:Roman Rite
Established:1248
Cathedral:Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta
Cocathedral:Basilica Concattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta
Concattedrale di S. Eustachio
Priests:65 (diocesan)
24 (Religious Orders)
11 Permanent Deacons
Bishop Title:Bishop
Bishop:Mario Paciello
Map:Roman Catholic Diocese of Altamura in Italy.jpg
Map Alt:Locator map for diocese of Altamura
Footnotes:www.diocesidialtamura.it

The Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti (Latin: Dioecesis Altamurensis-Gravinensis-Aquavievensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Apulia, southern Italy, 40 km (25 miles) south-west of the coastal city of Bari. In 1986. the territorial prelature of Altamura e Acquaviva delle Fonti was united with the diocese of Gravina. The present diocese is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto.[1] [2]

The seat of the bishop is at Altamura Cathedral, with Acquaviva Cathedral and Gravina Cathedral as co-cathedrals.[3]

History

Altamura

Altamura was once a territorial prelature, founded in 1232 and endowed by the Emperor Frederick II, who declared it to be free and exempt from all episcopal jurisdiction.[4] It was governed by an archpriest. It was declared exempt from episcopal jurisdiction by Pope Innocent IV in 1248, and again by Pope Innocent VIII (1484–92).

The Chapter of the major church of the territorial prelature of Altamura was composed of four dignities (the Archdeacon, the Cantor, the Primicerius, and the Treasurer) and twenty-four Canons, who had the right to use the cappa magna and rochet.[5]

Acquaviva

Acquaviva delle Fonti, a town of the Campagna, was declared similarly exempt by Pope Pius IX and united with Altamura on 17 August 1848.[6]

Diocesan Reorganization

Following the Second Vatican Council, and in accordance with the norms laid out in the council's decree, Christus Dominus chapter 40,[7] It also recommended the abolition of anomalous units such as exempt territorial prelatures. Pope Paul VI ordered a reorganization of the ecclesiastical provinces in southern Italy, beginning with 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 a 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 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 ordered that the diocese of Gravina be merged with the territorial prelatures of Altamura and of Aquaviva into one diocese with one bishop, with the Latin title Dioecesis Altamurensis-Gravinensis-Aquavivensis. The seat of the diocese was to be in Altamura, where the prelatial church was to serve as the cathedral of the merged diocese. The cathedral in Gravina and the prelatial seat in Aquaviva were to have the honorary titles of "co-cathedral"; the Chapters were each to be a Capitulum Concathedralis. There was to be only one diocesan Tribunal, in Altamura, 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 diocese and territorial prelatures. To make the territories of the new diocese congruent, the town of San Teramo in Colle was detached from the archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto and added to that of Altamura. The new diocese was made a suffragan of the archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto.[8]

Prelates and Bishops

Territorial Prelature of Altamura

Erected: 1248
Latin Name: Altamurensis

Antonio del Giudice (De Pirro) (1472 - 1477) Royal Administrator[12]

Sede vacante (1624-1627)

Sede vacante (1635-1640)

Sede vacante (1644-1649)

Cassiodoro Margarita (1828 - 17 August 1842 resigned) Royal administrator

Sede Vacante (24 December 1862 – 28 August 1879)

Territorial Prelature of Altamura ed Acquaviva delle Fonti

Name Changed: 17 August 1848
Latin Name: Altamurensis et Aquavievensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Bari-Canosa

Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti

30 September 1986: United with the Diocese of Gravina
Latin Name: Altamurensis-Gravinensis-Aquavievensis

See also

Books

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti (Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy] ]. 2024-01-15 . www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. Web site: Diocese of Altamura–Gravina–Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy . 2024-01-15 . GCatholic.
  3. https://www.diocesidialtamura.it/Agenda%20Pastorale.pdf
  4. D'Avino, p. 748, note 1: "Eandem Ecclesiam liberam et exemptam ab omni jurisdictione episcopatus vel archiepiscopatus cujuslibet; ita quod nulli Episcopo vel Archiepiscopo sit subdita praeter Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae quae caput est omnium Ecclesiarum, et nobis qui eamdem Ecclesiam in honorem B. V. edificari fecimus liberam et immunem .... collatione praedicti archipresbiteratus nobis et successoribus nostri perpetuo reservata."
  5. Giaconella, p. 125.
  6. Collezione degli atti emanati dopo la pubblicazione del Concordato dell'anno 1818, Vol. 12 (Napoli: Stamperia dell'Iride, 1852), pp. 48-74, at p. 59: "Quocirca Altamurensem et Aquavivensem respective Ecclesias antedictas Apostolica Auctoritate prasedicta ita in perpetuum ac aeque principaliter unimus, ut ab unico utriusque insimul Ecclesiae Archipresbytero obtineantur...." Web site: Catholic Encyclopedia article . 2008-02-01 . 2008-05-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080504130656/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01345b.htm . live .
  7. https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19651028_christus-dominus_en.html Christus Dominus
  8. Acta Apostolicae Sedis 79 (Città del Vaticano 1987), pp. 716-718.
  9. Michele Santoro, in: Giaconella, p. 122: "Dal sudetto Federico fù costituito il primo Rettore, ed Arciprete nella persona di Riccardo da Brundesio, da dove principiò la Chiesa ad avere l’Arciprete nominato dal Re, merce una bolla di Innocenzio VIII.
  10. Pietro de Angeriaco was appointed by Charles II of Anjou, King of Naples 1285–1309) in 1296. Charles II had successfully petitioned Pope Boniface VIII to unite the two offices of Treasurer of S. Nicholas in Bari and Archpriest of Altamura. Book: Antonio Beatillo. Historia della vita, miracoli, traslatione, e gloria dell'illustrissimo confessore di Christo San Nicolò il Magno Arcivescovo di Mira. 1703. Pietro Olivieri. Roma. it. 460. 2017-03-26. 2017-03-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20170327091515/https://books.google.com/books?id=i0ZMAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA460. live. Serena, pp. 330-331.
  11. On 6 November 1472, D'Ajello was named archbishop of Bari.
  12. On 31 January 1477, Del Giudice was named bishop of Castellaneta.
  13. Giovanni Geronimo de Mari: Book: Bartolomeo Chioccarelli. Archivio della reggia giurisdizione del regno di Napoli, ristretto in indice compendioso .... 1721. Vinezia. it. 26–34; 132–134. 2017-03-26. 2017-03-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20170327092543/https://books.google.com/books?id=tKhFAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA32. live.
  14. In 1656, Olivares was named Prior of San Nicola in Bari.
  15. On 9 June 1664, Cavalliere was named bishop of Monopoli.
  16. On 2 March 1722, Orsi was named archbishop of Otranto.
  17. On 25 June 1727, Poloù was named archbishop of Reggio Calabria.
  18. Rinaldi was a native of Terra di Fellino, Provincia d’Otranto. Giaconalla, p. 133.
  19. Cusano was born in the village of Trasco (diocese of S. Agatha Gothorum in 1690. He became a priest in 1713. From 1735 to 1747, he was professor of civil law at the University of Naples. He was nominated bishop of Otranto by King of Naples on 11 December 1752, and confirmed by Pope Benedict XIV on 12 March. He was consecrated a bishop in Rome on 18 March 1753. He was transferred to the archdiocese of Palermo on 11 February 1754. Ritzler & Sefrin Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 238 with note 2.
  20. On 26 June 1818, De Gemmis was named bishop of Melfi e Rapolla.
  21. On 23 June 1828, Guarini was named bishop of Venosa.
  22. Canon Falcone had been Vicar General of Molfetta before being named Archpriest of Acquaviva on 1 June 1842 by King Ferdinand II of Naples. Book: Michele Garruba. Serie critica de sacri pastori Baresi, corr. accresciuta ed ill. 1844. Cannone. Bari. it. 711–712. 2017-03-26. 2017-03-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20170327084520/https://books.google.com/books?id=nldcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA42. live. To this was added the office of Archpriest of Altamura on 16 October 1858: Book: Almanacco reale del regno delle Due Sicilie. 1854. Stamperia Reale. Napoli. it. 176. 2017-03-26. 2017-03-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20170327090007/https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6BjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA176. live. On 10 July 1858 Falcone was named titular Bishop of Eumeneia: Book: La civiltà cattolica: pubblicazione periodica per tutta l'Italia. Terza serie. 11. 1858. Uffizio della civilta cattolica. Roma. it. 229. 2017-03-26. 2017-03-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20170327090546/https://books.google.com/books?id=B9E0V4Pxh9AC&pg=PA229. live. Serena, p. 334.
  23. In May 1881 Pellegrini was appointed titular Bishop of Troas (Turkey). Serena, p. 334.
  24. Cirelli was appointed titular Bishop of Proconessos on 22 June 1899. He died on 26 February 1902. Serena, p. 334.

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