Roman Catholic Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias

Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias Dioecesis Templensis-Ampuriensis
Tempio Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Sassari
Statistics
Area	2,695 km2 (1,041 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2010) 154,737 144,980 (93.7%)
Parishes	47
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1506
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Pietro Apostolo (Tempio)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale di S. Antonio Abate (Castelsardo)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop

Co-cathedral in Ampurias

The Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias (Latin: Dioecesis Templensis-Ampuriensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Sardinia, Italy. Until 1986 it was known as Diocese of Ampurias e Tempio. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sassari

It had borne that name since 1506, when it was combined with the diocese of Tempio, previously being simply the diocese of Ampurias.^[1]

History[]

Ampurias was erected in 1113; the diocese of Cività, now Tempio, in 304 by . Cività was united to Ampurias by Pope Julius II in 1506.

Later the see was transferred to Terranuova. Pope Gregory XVI suppressed the cathedral there by the Bull Quamvis aqua, 26 August 1839, and raised the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, in Tempio, to a cathedral, uniting Tempio and Ampurias, so that one bishop should govern both.

The see was vacant from 1854 to 1871. was appointed bishop of Ogliastra, 26 September 1882, and transferred to this diocese, 16 January 1893.

Bishops[]

• (1457–1472 Appointed, Bishop of Ottana)
• (1493–1511 Died)
• , O.F.M. (1513–1538 Died)
• (1538–1545 Died)
• , O.S.A. (1545–1557 Died)
• (1558–1572 Died)
• (1572–1574 Appointed, Archbishop of Oristano)
• (1575–1578 Appointed, Archbishop of Cagliari)
• , O. Cist. (1579–1586 Died)
• (1586–1607 Died)
• (1608–1613 Died)
• (1613–1622 Appointed, Archbishop of Sassari)
• Giovanni de La Bronda (1622–1633 Died)
• (1633–13 Jul 1644 Appointed, Archbishop of Sassari)
• (1644–1652 Died)
• (1652–1656 Confirmed, Archbishop of Sassari)
• (1656–1669 Died)
• (1669–1672 Appointed, Archbishop of Oristano)
• , O. de M. (1672–1673 Confirmed, Bishop of Segorbe)
• , O. Carm. (1673–1678 Died)
• (1679–1685 Appointed, Archbishop of Oristano)
• (1685–1688 Died)
• (1688–1700 Died)
• Diego Serafino Posulo (Pozuli), O.P. (1702–1718 Died)
• Angelo Galzerin, O.F.M. Conv. (1727– 1735 Died)
• Giovanni Leonardo Sanna (1736– 1737 Confirmed, Bishop of Bosa)
• Vincenzo Giovanni Vico Torrellas (1737–1741 Confirmed, Archbishop of Oristano)
• Salvator Angelo Cadello (1741–1764 Died)
• Pietro Paolo Carta (1764–1771 Died)
• Francesco Ignazio Guiso (1772–1778 Died)
• Giovanni Antonio Arras Minutili (1779– 1784 Died)
• Michele Pes (1785–1804 Died)
• Giuseppe Stanislao Paradiso (1807–1819 Confirmed, Bishop of Ales e Terralba)
• Stanislao Mossa (1823–1825 Died)
• Diego Capece (1833–1855 Died)
• Filippo Campus Chessa (1871–1887 Died)
• Paolo Pinna (1887–1892 Died)
• Antonio Maria Contini (1893–1907 Resigned)
• Giovanni Maria Sanna, O.F.M. Conv. (1914–1922 Appointed, Bishop of Gravina e Irsina)
• Albino Morera (1922–1950 Retired)
• Carlo Re, I.M.C. (1951–1961 Resigned)
• Mario Ghiga (1961–1963 Died)
• Giovanni Melis Fois (1963–1970 Appointed, Bishop of Nuoro)
• Carlo Urru (1971–1982 Appointed, Bishop of Città di Castello)
• Pietro Meloni (1983–1992 Appointed, Bishop of Nuoro)
• Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, O.F.M. Conv. (1993–2004 Appointed, Archbishop of Sassari)
• Sebastiano Sanguinetti (2006–)

Notes[]

References[]

• Battandier, Ann. pont. cath. (1906)
• Gams, Series episc. Ecclesiœ cathol. (Ratisbon, 1873)
• Martini, Storia eccles. della Sardinia (Cagliari, 1839), IV, 349

External links[]

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