Roman Catholic Archdiocese of L'Aquila
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Archdiocese of L'Aquila Archidioecesis Aquilanus | |
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | L'Aquila |
Statistics | |
Area | 1,516 km2 (585 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2016) 115,200 (est.) 109,000 (guess) |
Parishes | 149 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 20 February 1257 |
Cathedral | Cattedrale di SS. Massimo e Giorgio |
Secular priests | 89 (diocesan) 26 (Religious Orders) 10 Permanent Deacons |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Giuseppe Petrocchi |
Auxiliary Bishops | |
Bishops emeritus | Giuseppe Molinari |
Map | |
Website | |
www.diocesilaquila.it |
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of L'Aquila (Latin: Archidioecesis Aquilanus) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy.[1][2] It was erected as the Diocese of L'Aquila on 20 February 1257 by Pope Alexander IV and promoted to an archdiocese by Pope Pius IX on 19 January 1876. Pope Paul VI elevated it to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on 15 August 1972, with the suffragan sees of Avezzano and Sulmona–Valva.
The archdiocese's mother church and the seat of its archbishop is L'Aquila Cathedral. L'Aquila also contains the . The current archbishop of L'Aquila is Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, since June 8, 2013.
History[]
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The city and diocese of L'Aquila suffered a devastating earthquake in 2009.[3] The dome of the Cathedral collapsed,[4] and the remains of Pope Celestine V were thrown from their tomb in the church of Santa Maria di Collemaggio.
Bishops and Archbishops of L'Aquila[]
- Berardo da Padula (1256–1264)
- Niccolò Sinizzo (1267–1294)
- Nicola Castroceli (1294–1303).
- Bartolomeo Conti (1303–1312)
- Filippo Delci (1312–1327)
- Angelo Acciaioli (1328–1342)
- Pietro Guglielmi (1343–1346)
- Paolo Rainaldi (1349–1377)
- Isacco D'Arcione (1353–1355)
- Giovanni Zacchei (1377–1381)
- Stefano Sidonio (1381–1382)
- Clemente Secinari (1382–1384)
- Oddo (1386–1388)
- Ludovico Cola (1389–1399)
- Giacomo Donadei (1401–1431)
- Amico Agnifili (1431–1472)
- Francesco Agnifili (1472–1476)
- Ludovico Borgio (1477–1485)
- Giovanbattista Gaglioffi (1486–1491)
- Giovanni Di Leone (1493–1502)
- Gualtiero Suardo (1502–1504)
- Giovanni da Prato (1504–1506)
- Francesco Franchi (1517–1523)
- Giovanni Piccolomini (1523–1525)
- Pompeo Colonna (1525–1532)
- Giovanni Piccolomini (apostolic administrator, 1532–1538)
- Bernardo Sancio (1538–1552)
- Alvaro Della Quadra (1553–1561)
- Giovanni D'Acugna (1561–1579)
- Mariano De Racciaccaris (1579–1592)
- Basilio Pignatelli (1593–1599)
- Giuseppe de Rossi (archbishop) (Giuseppe De Rubeis) (1599–1605)
- Gundisalvo De Ruenda (1606–1622)
- Álvaro de Mendoza (bishop) (1622–1628)[5]
- Gaspare De Gaioso (1629–1644)
- Clemente Del Pezzo (1646–1651)
- Francesco Tellio De Leon (1654–1662)
- Carlo De Angelis (1663–1674)
- Giovanni de Torrecilla y Cárdenas (1676–1681)[6]
- Arcangelo Tipaldi (Archangelus a Cilento) (1681–1682)[6]
- Ignazio Della Zerda (Ignatius de la Cerda) (1683–1702)[6]
- Domenico Taglialatela (1718–1742)[6]
- Giuseppe Coppola (1742–1749)
- Ludovico Sabatini (1750–1776)
- Benedetto Cervone (1777–1788)
- Francesco Saverio Gualtieri (1792–1817)
- Girolamo Manieri (1818–1844)
- Michele Navazio (1845–1851)
- (1853–1881)
- (1881–1892)
- (1893–1906)
- , SM (1907–1916)
- (1918–1929)
- (1931–1941)
- Carlo Confalonieri (1941–1950)
- (1950–1973)
- Carlo Martini (1973–1983)
- Mario Peressin (1983–1998)
- Giuseppe Molinari (1998–2013)
- Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi (8 June 2013 – )
See also[]
- Maximus of Aquila
- Roman Catholicism in Italy
- Timeline of L'Aquila
References[]
- ^ "Archdiocese of L’Aquila" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved November 30, 2016
- ^ "Metropolitan Archdiocese of L’Aquila" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
- ^ Michele Nastasi (2015). Suspended City: L'Aquila After the Earthquake. Barcelona: Actar. ISBN 978-1-940291-67-3.
- ^ Aa.Vv. (2016-01-03). La finta cupola del Duomo de L'Aquila: Pronto intervento e recupero (in Italian). Gangemi Editore spa. ISBN 978-88-492-9279-4.
- ^ "Bishop Alvaro Mendoza, O.F.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved November 24, 2016
- ^ a b c d Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V. Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. p. 93. (in Latin)
External links[]
- 1257 establishments in Europe
- 13th-century establishments in Italy
- Roman Catholic dioceses in Abruzzo
- Religious organizations established in the 1250s
- Roman Catholic dioceses established in the 13th century
- L'Aquila