Roman Catholic Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa

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Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa

Dioecesis Melphiensis-Rapollensis-Venusina

Diocesi di Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa
Cattedrale Melfi.jpg
Melfi Cathedral
Location
CountryItaly
Ecclesiastical provincePotenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo
Statistics
Area1,316 km2 (508 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics (including non-members)		(as of 2004)
90,000
89,000 (98.9%)
Parishes32
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established11th century
CathedralBasilica Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Melfi)
Co-cathedralConcattedrale di S. Andrea (Venosa)
Concattedrale di S. Michele Arcangelo (Rapolla)
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopCiro Fanelli
Bishops emeritusGianfranco Todisco, P.O.C.R.
Website
www.diocesimelfi.it
Co-cathedral in Venosa

The Italian Catholic Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa (Latin: Dioecesis Melphiensis-Rapollensis-Venusina, Italian: Diocesi di Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa) is in Basilicata, southern Italy. In 1986 the historic Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla was united with the Diocese of Venosa. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo.[1][2] The Abbey of the Santissima Trinità at Venosa comes under the Diocese.

History[]

Pope Nicholas II made the diocese of Melfi immediately dependent on the Holy See; its first bishop was Baldwin. Its cathedral, a work of Roger Borsa,[3] son of Robert Guiscard (1155), was destroyed by the earthquake of 1851.

Among its bishops was the theologian Alessandro de San Elpidio, a former general of the Augustinians (1328). In 1528, Clement VII, in view of the scarcity of its revenues, united the Diocese of Rapolla to that of Melfi, "aeque principaliter".[4]

Ordinaries[]

Diocese of Melfi[]

Latin Name: Melphiensis
Erected: 11th Century

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Diocese of Melfi e Rapolla[]

Latin Name: Melphiensis et Rapollensis
United: 16 May 1528 with Diocese of Rapolla

  • (16 Mar 1528 – 1537 Died)
  • Giovanni Vincenzo Acquaviva d'Aragona (7 Feb 1537 – 16 Aug 1546 Died)
  • Roberto Pucci (7 Dec 1546 – 17 Jan 1547 Died)
  • (7 Feb 1547 – 1548 Died)
  • (27 Apr 1548 – 1573 Resigned)
  • Gaspare Cenci (8 Jan 1574 – 1590 Resigned)[5]
  • (16 Jul 1590 – 1591 Died)
  • (13 Sep 1591 – Nov 1591 Resigned)
  • , O.S.A. (13 Nov 1591 – 9 Aug 1594 Died)
  • Placido della Marra (6 Mar 1595 – 2 Dec 1620 Died)[6]
  • Desiderio Scaglia, O.P. (17 Mar 1621 – 14 Nov 1622 Appointed, Bishop of Como)
  • (19 Dec 1622 – 7 Jan 1626 Appointed, Bishop of Como)[6]
  • , O.P. (19 Jan 1626 – 18 Apr 1644 Appointed, Bishop of Alessandria)[6]
  • (2 May 1644 – Dec 1644 Died)[6]
  • (16 Jan 1645 – 12 Apr 1648 Died)[6]
  • Luigi Branciforte (28 Sep 1648 – 1665 Died)[6]
  • Giulio Caracciolo, C.R. (1 Mar 1666 – 1671 Resigned)[6][7]
  • Tommaso de Franchi (24 Aug 1671 – May 1696 Died)[7]
  • Francesco Antonio Triveri, O.F.M. Conv. (24 Sep 1696 – May 1697 Died)[7]
  • Antonio Spinelli, C.R. (2 Dec 1697 – Oct 1724 Died)[7]
  • Mondilio Orsini, C.O. (20 Nov 1724 – 8 Mar 1728 Appointed, Archbishop of Capua)[7]
  • Giovanni Saverio Lioni (22 Nov 1730 – 5 Mar 1735 Died)
  • Domenico Rossi (Rosso e Colonna), O.S.B. (26 Sep 1735 – 8 Jul 1737 Appointed, Archbishop of Palermo)
  • Luca Antonio della Gatta (8 Jul 1737 – 25 Sep 1747 Died)
  • Pasquale Teodoro Basta (29 Jan 1748 – 27 Dec 1765 Died)
  • Ferdinando de Vicariis, O.S.B. (14 Apr 1766 – 19 Jun 1780 Died)
  • Filippo d’Aprile (27 Feb 1792 – Apr 1811 Died)
  • Gioacchino de Gemmis (26 Jun 1818 – 12 Dec 1822 Died)
  • Vincenzo Ferrari, O.P. (3 May 1824 – 4 May 1828 Died)
  • Luigi Bovio, O.S.B. (18 May 1829 – 6 Nov 1847 Died)
  • Ignazio Maria Selitti (5 Nov 1849 – 1880 Resigned)
  • Giuseppe Camassa (4 Aug 1881 – 15 Apr 1912 Resigned)
  • Alberto Costa (4 Jan 1912 – 7 Dec 1928 Appointed, Bishop of Lecce)
  • Luigi dell’Aversana (Orabona) (29 Jul 1930 – 6 Nov 1934 Died)
  • Domenico Petroni (1 Apr 1935 – 5 Oct 1966 Retired)
  • Giuseppe Vairo (5 Mar 1973 – 25 Oct 1976 Appointed, Bishop of Tricarico)
  • Armando Franco (25 Oct 1976 – 12 Sep 1981 Appointed, Bishop of Oria)
  • Vincenzo Cozzi (12 Sep 1981 – 13 Dec 2002 Retired)

Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa[]

Latin Name: Dioecesis Melphiensis-Rapollensis-Venusinus
United: 30 September 1986 with Diocese of Venosa

  • , P.O.C.R. (13 Dec 2002 – 21 Apr 2017 Resigned)
  • Ciro Fanelli (4 Aug 2017 –)

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 29, 2016
  2. ^ "Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 29, 2016
  3. ^ MELFI - Online Information article about MELFI
  4. ^  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Melfi and Rapolla". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  5. ^ "Bishop Gaspare Cenci" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 238. |volume= has extra text (help) (in Latin)
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. V. Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. pp. 264–265. |volume= has extra text (help) (in Latin)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Melfi and Rapolla". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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