Roman Catholic Diocese of Satriano e Campagna

The Diocese of Satriano e Campagna (Latin: Dioecesis Satrianensis et Campaniensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Satriano in the Province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy. In 1818, the diocese of Campagna was united with the Archdiocese of Conza to form the Archdiocese of Conza e Campagna.[1][2] The diocese of Satriano was completely suppressed, and its territory incorporated into the diocese of Campagna.

In 1968, the title of Bishop of Satriano, though not the diocese itself, was restored as the name of a titular see.[2]

Diocese of Campagna

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The city of Satriano, which was the seat of a bishop, was completely deserted.[3] At the request of the Emperor Charles V, in his capacity as King of Naples, Pope Clement VII erected the Diocese of Campagna on 20 May 1525, uniting it with the diocese of Satriano, aeque personaliter (two dioceses with one and the same bishop). Both were assigned to the metropolitanate of Salerno. The new bishop of Campagna was the Bishop of Satriano, Cherubino Caietani, who was installed as bishop of Campagna on 19 June 1525.[4] The city of Campagna belonged to the Marchesi Grimaldi.[5]

The Collegiate Church of S. Maria della Pace in Campagna, which had eight dignities and eighteen canons, was promoted into the cathedral church for the new diocese.[6] In 1770, there were seven dignities (the Archdeacon, the Archpriest, the Dean, the Cantor, the Primicerius, the Treasurer, and the Sacristan) and eighteen canons.[7]

After Napoleon

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Following the extinction of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the Congress of Vienna authorized the restoration of the Papal States and the Kingdom of Naples. Since the French occupation had seen the abolition of many Church institutions in the Kingdom, as well as the confiscation of most Church property and resources, it was imperative that Pope Pius VII and King Ferdinand IV reach agreement on restoration and restitution.

A concordat was signed on 16 February 1818, and ratified by Pius VII on 25 February 1818. Ferdinand issued the concordat as a law on 21 March 1818.[8] The right of the king to nominate the candidate for a vacant bishopric was recognized, as in the Concordat of 1741, subject to papal confirmation (preconisation).[9]

On 27 June 1818, Pius VII issued the bull De Ulteriore, in which he reestablished the metropolitan archbishopric of Conza. At the same time he abolished the diocese of Satriano, which had been united aeque principaliter with the diocese of Campagna, and incorporated the territory of Satriano into the diocese of Campagna. The diocese of Campagna was assigned to the archdiocese of Conza, in such a way that the archbishop of Conza was also the perpetual administrator of the diocese of Campagna.[10]

In 1885, the diocese of Campagna had ten parishes with 19,674 Catholics.[11]

By a decree of Pope Benedict XV on 30 September 1921, the diocese of Campagna became independent of the archdiocese of Conza.[12]

On 4 August 1973, the Archbishop of Salerno, Gaetano Pollio (1969-1984), was also named bishop of Campagna.[13] The three dioceses of Salerno, Acerno, and Campagna were held aeque principaliter.

Diocesan reorganization of 1986

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The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), in order to ensure that all Catholics received proper spiritual attention, decreed the reorganization of the diocesan structure of Italy and the consolidation of small and struggling dioceses. It also recommended the abolition of anomalous units such as exempt territorial prelatures.[14]

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, as was the case with Salerno and Acerno, was to be abolished. Instead, 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 dioceses of Salerno and Acerno, as well as the diocese of Campagna[15] (which had not been incorporated into the reorganized metropolitanate of Conza), be merged into one diocese with one bishop, with the Latin title Archidioecesis Salernitana-Campaniensis-Acernensis. The seat of the diocese was to be in Salerno, and the cathedral of S. Maria e S. Matteo in Salerno was to serve as the cathedral of the merged dioceses. The cathedral in Acerno and the cathedral in Campagna were to become co-cathedrals, and the cathedral Chapters of Acerno and of Campagna were each to be a Capitulum Concathedralis. There was to be only one diocesan Tribunal, in Salerno, 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 previous dioceses of Salerno, Acerna, and Campagna.[16]

Bishops of Satriano e Campagna

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  • Cherubino Caietano, O.P. (1525 - 1544)[17]
  • Camillo Mantuato (1544 - 1560)[18]
  • Marco Lauro, O.P. (1560 - 1571)[19]
  • Girolamo Scarampi (1571 - 1583)[20]
  • Flaminio Roverella (1584 - 1589 resigned)[21]
  • Giulio Cesare Guarnieri (1591 - 1607)[22]
  • Barzellino de' Barzellini (1607 - 1618)[23]
  • Alessandro Scappi (1618 -1627)[24]
  • Costantino Testi, O.P. (1628 - 1637)[25]
  • Alessandro Liparuli (1637 - 1644)[26]
Gaspare Simeonibus (1644) bishop-elect[27]
  • Francesco Carducci (1644 -1649)[28]
  • Giuseppe Maria Avila, O.P. (1649 - 1656)[29]
  • Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, O.Cist. (1657 -1673)[30]
  • Domenico Tafuri, O.SS.T. (1673 - 1679)[31]
  • Girolamo Prignano (1680 - 1697)[32]
  • Giuseppe Bondola, O.F.M.Conv. (1697 - 1713)[33]
  • Francesco Saverio Fontana (1714 - 1736)[34]
  • Giovanni Angelo Anzani (1736 - 1770)[35]
  • Nicola Ferri (1770 - 1773)[36]
  • Marco De Leone (1773 - 1793)[37]
Sede vacante (1793-1818)[38]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Diocese of Satriano e Campagna" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved August 25, 2016
  2. ^ a b "Titular Episcopal See of Satriano" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved August 25, 2016
  3. ^ Cappelletti XX, p. 541: "...sede Episcopali et civitate diu devastata...."
  4. ^ Cappelletti XX, pp. 540-546.
  5. ^ G. Moroni (ed.), Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica Vol. III (Venice: Emiliana 1841), p. 97. Cappelletti XX, p. 536.
  6. ^ Cappelletti XX, p. 541-542. The dignity of the Provostship, however, was not retained.
  7. ^ Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 144, note 1.
  8. ^ F. Torelli (1848), La chiave del concordato dell'anno 1818 I, second edition (Naples: Fibreno 1848), pp. 1-19.
  9. ^ Torelli I, p. 9.
  10. ^ Bulliarii Romani Continuatio Tomus 25 (Rome 1853), p. 57, § 10: "Archiepiscopalis ecclesia Compsana habebit suffraganeas ecclesias episcopales sancti Angeli Lombardorum, Laquedoniensem, et Muranam: supprimentes vero ecclesiam Satrianensem, alteri episcopali ecclesiae Campaniensi usque adhuc aeque principaliter unita m , moderno et prò tempore existenti metropolitanae ecclesiae Compsanae antistiti administrationem praedictae episcopalis ecclesiae Campaniensis cum integro etiam Satrianensi territorio dioecesano perpetuo tribuimus; ita ut Compsanus archiepiscopus, et Campaniénsis episcopalis ecclesiae administrator debeat inposterum nuncupari....."
  11. ^ Giuseppe Bertolotti (1885), Statistica ecclesiastica d'Italia Savona: A. Ricci 1885), pp. 573-575.
  12. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis 14 (Città del Vaticano 1922), pp. 190-192
  13. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis 65 (1973), p. 502: "Cathedrali Ecclesiae Campaniensi Exc. P. D. Caietanum Pollio, Archiepiscopum Salernitanum."
  14. ^ In its decree Christus Dominus, section 22, it stated: "Concerning diocesan boundaries, therefore, this sacred synod decrees that, to the extent required by the good of souls, a fitting revision of diocesan boundaries be undertaken prudently and as soon as possible. This can be done by dividing dismembering or uniting them, or by changing their boundaries, or by determining a better place for the episcopal see or, finally, especially in the case of dioceses having larger cities, by providing them with a new internal organization.... At the same time the natural population units of people, together with the civil jurisdictions and social institutions that compose their organic structure, should be preserved as far as possible as units. For this reason, obviously, the territory of each diocese should be continuous."
  15. ^ Campagna was only 29 km or 18 mi in a straight line from Salerno, by road the distance is around 47 km or 29 miles. In 1980, the diocese of Campagna had (nominally) 52,000 members, and 31 priests.
  16. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis 79 (Città del Vaticano 1987), pp. 778-780.
  17. ^ Caietano: Cappelletti XX, p. 546. Eubel II, p. 231; III, p. 293 with note 3.
  18. ^ Mentuato was a priest of Piacenza. He was appointed bishop of Satriano & Campagna on 14 November 1544. He served as papal pro-legate in Bologna (under Cardinal Girolamo Morone, 1544–1547, who resided in Rome); and Rector of the Marches (1557). In 1558, he was sent as Papal Nuncio to Poland by Pope Paul IV. He died in 1560. Ughelli VII, p. 457, no. 2. Cappelletti XX, p. 546. Otto Braunsberger, Petrus Canisius: ein Lebensbild (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder 1917), pp. 95-96. Eubel III, p. 293.
  19. ^ A native of Tropea, and the brother of the diplomat and later cardinal Vincenzo Lauro, Fra Marco had been Provincial of the Dominican province of Calabria, Prior of the Dominican convent of Cosenza, and Bishop of Santorini (Cyclades Is.) from 1555 to 1560. He was a theologian at the Council of Trent. He was named Bishop of Campagna on 26 January 1560. He died in 1571. Giovanni Michele Piò, Delle Vite de gli huomini illustri di S. Domenico. Parte prima (Bologna: Bellagamba 1617), p. 245. Cappelletti XX, p. 546. Rivelli (1894), p. 140. Eubel III, pp. 291, 293.
  20. ^ Scarampi was a native of Casale, and held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure. He held the office of Provost of Carmagnola, and was Vicar General of the archbishop of Turin. He was appointed Bishop of Satriano & Campagna on 16 July 1571, by Pope Pius V. He was Apostolic Visitor to Turin in 1583. He died in August 1583. Ughelli VII, p. 458 no. 4. Cappelletti XX, p. 547. Rivelli, p. 27. Eubel III, p. 293.
  21. ^ Roverella was born at Cesena, of a noble Ferrarese family. He was the nephew of Cardinal Prospero Santacroce. He retired in 1591 to the town of Gubrivolo near Cesena. Eubel III, p. 293 with note 6.
  22. ^ Guarnieri was born in Campagna, and held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure. He was Archdeacon of the cathedral Chapter of Campagna, which he resigned in favor of his brother Ambrogio. He was named bishop on 19 July 1591, and consecrated in Rome. He named his brother his Vicar General. He held a diocesan synod. In 1594, he began the construction of the monastery of the Conception, and consecrated the church of S. Martino, which had been under construction since 1575. He died in 1607, before 14 May. Cappelletti XX, p. 547. Rivelli, pp. 27-32. Eubel III, p. 293.
  23. ^ Barzellino had been a Referendary of the Two Signatures in the papal administration. He served as Vicar General of the archbishop of Siena. He was named Bishop of Campagna on 14 May 1607. He died in 1618. Cappelletti XX, p. 547. Rivelli, p. 220. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 131 with note 2.
  24. ^ Scappi was appointed on 14 February 1618. On 17 May 1627 Bishop Scappi was named Bishop of Piacenza. Rivelli, pp. 220-221. Gauchat IV, p. 131 with note 3; 281 with note 4.
  25. ^ Testi was a native of Modena or Ferrara, and brother of the lyric poet Cavaliere Fulvio Testi. He was personal theologian of Cardinal Desiderio Scaglia of Cremona, a Commissary of the Holy Inquisition. He was appointed Bishop of Campagna by Pope Urban VIII on 24 January 1628. He conducted a diocesan visitation in the autumn of 1636. He died in February 1637. Rivelli, pp. 221-223. Gauchat IV, p. 131 with note 4.
  26. ^ Liparoli was a Neapolitan, and held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure. He was a Referendary of the Tribunal of the Two Signatures in the papal curia, and had been Bishop of Guardialfiera (1624–1637). He was appointed Bishop of Campagna on 14 December 1637 by Pope Urban VIII. He died in 1644. Rivelli, pp. 224-225. Gauchat IV, p. 132 with note 5; 199 with note 4.
  27. ^ De Simeone was nominated by Pope Urban VIII, who died, on 29 July 1644, before the bulls were signed. The new pope, Pope Innocent X, made De Simeone his Secretary for Papal Briefs instead. Rivelli, p. 225.
  28. ^ On 22 March 1649, Bishop Carducci was named bishop of Sulmona e Valva. He died in Rome on 5 November 1654. Rivelli, pp. 225-227. Gauchat IV, p. 132 with note 6; 358 with note 6.
  29. ^ Born in Rome, Avila was a nephew of Cardinal Domenico Cecchini, the papal Datary. He was a Dominican friar at the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, and noted for his expertise in Hebrew. He was appointed Bishop of Campagna on 12 April 1649, by Pope Innocent X. He died on 24 September 1656. Ughelli VII, pp. 459-460. Gauchat IV, p. 132 with note 7. He was the author of Theologicae veritates ex magni Thomae Aquinatis doctrina depromptae (Rome: The Minerva 1635).
  30. ^ Caramuel was born in Madrid in 1606, son of the Bohemian Lorenzo Caramuel y Lobkowitz. He studied in Alcalà. On 9 July 1657, he was named Bishop of Campagna by Pope Alexander VII. On 25 September 1673, he was transferred to the diocese of Vigevano by Pope Clement X. He died on 8 September 1682. David Fernández Diéguez Juan Caramuel, matematico Español del siglo XVII, (in Spanish) (Madrid 1919). Ughelli VII, pp. 461-462. Gauchat IV, p. 132 with note 8. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, pp. 139, note 2; 415 with note 4.
  31. ^ Tafuri: Ritzler & Sefrin V, p. 139 with note 3.
  32. ^ Prignano: Ritzler & Sefrin V, p. 139 with note 4.
  33. ^ Ritzler & Sefrin V, p. 140 with note 5.
  34. ^ A relative of the architect Domenico Fontana, Francesco Fontana was born in the village of Iovia (Gioja, Bari) in 1667, and held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure (Rome, Sapienza 1700). He was appointed bishop of Campagna on 17 September 1714 by Pope Clement XI. He built the seminary building, and restored the church of S. Maria Nova and the abbey church of Santa Maddalena; he restored the episcopal residences in Satriano and Campagna. He died in September 1736. Cappelletti XX, pp. 548-549. D. V. Giordani, in: Pietro Pianton (ed.), Enciclopedia ecclesiastica Volume 6 (Venezia: G. Tasso 1860), p. 823. Ritzler & Sefrin V, p. 140 with note 6.
  35. ^ Anzani: Gabriele de Rosa, Tempo religioso e tempo storico. Saggi e note di storia sociale e religiosa dal Medioevo all'età contemporanea, Vol.III (Roma: Ed. di storia e letteratura 1998), pp. 153-170. Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 144 with note 2.
  36. ^ Ferri: Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 144 with note 3.
  37. ^ De Leone: Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 144 with note 4.
  38. ^ Gams, p. 865, column 1. Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 144, note 4.

Bibliography

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Episcopal lists

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  • Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. II (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
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  • Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo (in Latin). Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp. 852–853.
  • Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana.
  • Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi (in Latin). Vol. V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio.
  • Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi (in Latin). Vol. VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio.

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