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Roman Catholic Diocese of Sulmona-Valva

April 11, 2024

The Diocese of Sulmona-Valva (Latin: Dioecesis Sulmonensis-Valvensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in central Italy, in the Abruzzi region, approximately 120 km (75 mi) directly east of Rome. Corfinio (Valva) is 14 km north-northwest of Sulmona.

Diocese of Sulmona-Valva

Dioecesis Sulmonensis-Valvensis
Sulmona Cathedral
Location
CountryItaly
Ecclesiastical provinceL'Aquila
Statistics
Area1,814 km2 (700 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2020)
85,000 (est.)
83,000 (guess)
Parishes76
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established6th Century
CathedralBasilica Cattedrale di S. Panfilo Vescovo (Sulmona)
Co-cathedralConcattedrale di S. Pelino (Corfinio)
Patron saintSaint Pamphilus
Secular priests45 (diocesan)
22 (Religious Orders)
8 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopMichele Fusco
Bishops emeritusGiuseppe Di Falco
Map
Website
www.diocesisulmona-valva.it

The current configuration was created in 1986, through the union of the two dioceses into one. The combined single diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of L'Aquila. In 1818, the status of the Diocese of Sulmona and the Diocese of Valva was acknowledged, as two separate dioceses united in having one and the same person as bishop of both dioceses, aeque personaliter, an arrangement which stretched all the way back to the 13th century, and earlier.

History edit

In the Lombard period Sulmona was subject to the Duchy of Spoleto; later it belonged to the counts of Marsi. When the Normans conquered the Abruzzi, Sulmona increased in importance. In 1233, Emperor Frederick II made it the capital of the "Gran Giustizierato" of the Abruzzi.[1]

Fictional origins edit

Legend associates the evangelization of the district with the name of Saint Britius, Bishop of Spoleto, in the second century.[2] Local legend in Sulmona credits the evangelization with Saint Feliciano, Bishop of Foligno, in the middle of the third century. He is said to have reconsecrated the temple of Apollo and Vesta as the cathedral of S. Maria Regina de Caelo (Santa Maria in Bussi), which, at the beginning of the 9th century, had its name changed to S. Panfilo.[3] The claim, however, has no evidence to support it.[4]

Early bishops edit

The first known Bishop of Sulmona is Palladius (499); in 503. Pamphilus of Sulmona, Bishop of Valva, died about 706; he was buried in Sulmona Cathedral.

Four or five other bishops of Valva are known, but none of Sulmona until 1054, when Pope Leo IX named as Bishop of Valva, the Benedictine Domenico, and determined the limits of the Dioceses of San Pelino (Saint Pelinus) (i.e., Valva) and San Panfilo (Saint Pamphilus) (i.e., Sulmona), which were to have only one bishop, elected by the two chapters.[5] On 25 March 1138, Pope Innocent II wrote to Bishop Dodo, reconfirming his possessions and privileges, and mentioning in passing that the bishop had his throne at S. Pelini, in Corfinio (Valva): "Ecclesiam santi Pelini, ubi Episcopalis habetur sedes."[6] The body of S. Pelinus had been transferred to the church of S. Pelino in Corfinio (Valva) in 1124.[7]

Normans edit

In 1143 King Roger II of Sicily invaded Campania and seized the monastery of Montecassino, all of whose treasures he confiscated. The territory of the Marsi surrendered to him.[8] His sons occupied the territory of Marsi, which included not only the County of Marsi, but the County of Valva. Bishop Dodo was already dead, having died (according to Di Pietro) in 1142.[9] King Roger appointed[10] new bishops at Chieti and Valva.[11]

On 7 April 1168, the cathedral chapter of S, Pelino and the cathedral chapter of S. Panfilo entered into an agreement that both had the right to participate in the naming a bishop.[12]

On 16 October 1256, Bishop Giacomo di Penne, a former monk of Casa Nova, presided over a meeting of the canons of the two cathedrals, at which it was agreed that the two chapters should unite in electing a bishop, as frequent disputes had arisen when they acted separately.[13]

In the winter of 1336/1337, a group of armed men stationed themselves in the cathedral of S. Pamfilo in Sulmona, in order (they said) to prevent others from attacking or occupying it. In the especially cold winter weather, they tore up the flooring of the episcopal palace next door, took out the wooden beams, and made fires to keep warm. The palace was severely damaged.[14]

Other bishops were: Pompeo Zambeccari (1547–1571), nuncio in Portugal from March 1550 to July 1560;[15] Francesco Boccapaduli (1638); and Pietro Antonio Corsignani (1738), the historian of the Abruzzi.[16]

Earthquakes edit

In the earthquake of 5 December 1456, Sulmona was "for the most part destroyed".[17] On 3 November 1706, a major earthquake devastated Sulmona and Valva. The cathedral of S. Pamfilo in Sulmona was completely destroyed, along with its chapels, and the entire episcopal palace was levelled.[18] Approximately 1,000 people died.[19] Major earthquakes also occurred in 1915, 1933, 1984, and 2009.[20]

French occupation edit

The see remained vacant from 1800 till 1818. From 1809 to 1815, Pope Pius VII was a prisoner of Napoleon in France, and his policy was not to cooperate with the French in filling bishoprics.[21] When Napoleon did so on his own authority as King of Italy, it created havoc in one diocese after another.[22] The vacancy also saw the occupation of Sulmona by the French, beginning on 6 January 1799, and the suppression of all the religious orders in 1807.[23] When the Congress of Vienna restored the Papal States and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1815, disputes arose between the Holy See and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, involving matters of restoration of church property, and the issue of feudal submission of King Ferdinand to Pope Pius VII. Three years of negotiations were necessary. A concordat was finally 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.[24] The re-erection of the dioceses of the kingdom and the ecclesiastical provinces took more than three years. 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).[25]

On 27 June 1818, Pius VII issued the bull De Ulteriore, in which, in the cases of several dioceses, Sulmona and Valva among them, no change was made from the status quo ante.[26] On 25 September 1818, Pope Pius granted the cathedral of S. Pamfilo in Sulmona the honorary title of "minor basilica".[27]

Reorganization edit

Following the Second Vatican Council, and in accordance with the norms laid out in the council's decree, Christus Dominus chapter 40,[28] Pope Paul VI ordered a reorganization of the ecclesiastical provinces in southern Italy. On 15 August 1972, a new ecclesiastical province was created, with L'Aquila, which had previously been directly subject to the Holy See, as the new metropolitan archbishopric. The diocese of the Marsi (later renamed Avezzano) and the diocese of Valva e Sulmona were appointed suffragans.[29]

Diocesan unification edit

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 Sulmona and the diocese of Valva be merged into one diocese with one bishop, with the Latin title Dioecesis Sulmonensis-Valvensis. The seat of the diocese was to be in Sulmona, where the cathedral was to serve as the cathedral of the merged dioceses. The cathedral in Valva was to have the honorary title of "co-cathedral"; the Chapter of Valva was to be a Capitulum Concathedralis. There was to be only one diocesan Tribunal, in Sulmona, 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 dioceses of Sulmona and Valva. The new diocese was made a suffragan of the archdiocese of L'Aquila.[30]

Diocesan synods were held in 1572, 1590, 1603, 1620, 1629, and 1715. In 1572, the meeting was held at S. Pamfilo in Sulmona, but the canons of S. Pelino in Valva, though they attended, presented a memorial claiming precedence over the canons of S. Pamfilo.[31] A diocesan synod was held by Bishop Nicola Jezzoni (1906–1936) in 1929.[32]

A new diocesan seminary was opened Sulmona in 1953.[33]

List of bishops edit

Postnominal initials: Benedictine = OSB, Dominican = OP, Cistercian = OCist, Franciscan = OFM, Minorite = OFMC, Augustinian = OESA, Oratorian = CO, Olivetan = OSBOliv

to 1300 edit

  • Geruntius (mentioned in 494/495), bishop of Valva[34]
  • Palladius (mentioned in 499), bishop of Sulmona[35]
  • [Fortunatus (502)][36]
  • Pamphilus (682–700), bishop of Sulmona[37]
  • Gradescus (mentioned in 701), bishop of Sulmona
  • Vadpert (mentioned in 775)
  • Ravennus (mentioned in 840)
  • Arnulfus (mentioned in 843)[38]
  • Opitarmo (mentioned in 880)
  • Grimoald (attested 968, 983)[39]
  • ? Tidelfus[40]
  • ? Transeric[40]
  • ? Suavilius[40]
  • Dominicus OSB (1053–1073)[41]
  • Transmundus (1073–1080)[42]
...
  • Joannes (1092–1104)[43]
  • Gualterius (1104–1124)[44]
...
  • Dodo (1130–1140)[45]
  • Gerardus (Giraldus) (1143–1145?)[46]
  • Sciginulfus (attested c. 1146–1167)[47]
  • Oderisius of Raino (1172–1193)[48]
  • Guilelmus (1194–1205)[49]
  • Odo (1207 – before 6 May 1226)[50]
Sede vacante (1226–1227)
Berardus (1226–1227)[51]
  • Nicholas (1227–1247??)
Sede vacante (1235)[52]
Walter of Ocra (1247)[53]
  • ? Jacobus (I) OCist (1249–1251?)[54]
  • Jacobus (II) O.Cist. (10 April 1252 – 1263)[55]
  • Jacobus (III) of Orvieto OP (6 March 1263 – after 1273)[56]
  • Egidius de Leodio OFM (25 February 1279 – 1290)[57]
Guilelmus, OSB (28 August 1291 – 1294?) Administrator[58]
  • Pietro d'Aquila OSB (1294) Bishop-elect[59]

1300 to 1600 edit

  • Federico Raimondo de Letto (1295 – 1307)[60]
  • Landulfus (4 June 1307 – 1319)
  • Andrea Capograssi (25 May 1319 – 1330)
  • Pietro di Anversa OFM (4 May 1330 – 1333)
  • Nicolò di Pietro Rainaldi (30 October 1333 – 1343)
  • Francesco di Sangro (12 February 1343 – 1348)
  • Landulf II (2 July 1348 – 1349)
  • Francesco de Silanis OFM (17 January 1350 – ????)
  • Martino de Martinis (14 April 1368 – 1379)
  • Roberto de Illice (18 April 1379 – 2 July 1382) Avignon Obedience[61]
  • Paolo da Letto (around 1379 – ????) Roman Obedience
  • Nicola de Cervario OFM (2 July 1382 – 4 June 1397) Avignon Obedience[62]
  • Bartolomeo Gaspare (1384–????) Roman Obedience[63]
  • Bartolomeo Petrini (1402–1419) Roman Obedience[64]
  • Lotto Sardi (6 March 1420 – 21 May 1427), became Archbishop of Spoleto
  • Benedetto Guidalotti (21 May 1427 – 29 October 1427), became Bishop of Teramo
  • Bartolomeo Vinci (29 October 1427 – December 1442)
  • Francesco de Oliveto OSB (12 August 1443 – 14 June 1447), became Bishop of Rapolla
  • Pietro d'Aristotile (14 June 1447 – 1448)
  • Donato Bottino OESA (4 September 1448 – 1463)
  • Bartolomeo Scala OP (3 October 1463 – 1491)
  • Giovanni Melini Gagliardi (7 November 1491 – 1499)
[Giovanni Acuti][65]
  • Prospero de Rusticis (1499 – 1514)[66]
  • Giovanni Battista Cavicchio (28 July 1514 – 1519)
Andrea della Valle (26 October 1519 – 1521) Administrator[67]
  • Cristóbal de los Ríos (18 June 1521 – 1523)[68]
  • Orazio della Valle (17 July 1523 – 1528)
  • Francisco de Lerma (14 August 1528 – ????)
  • Bernardo Cavalieri delle Milizie (3 September 1529 – 1532)
  • Bernardino Fumarelli (13 November 1532 – 5 June 1547)
  • Pompeo Zambeccari (1 July 1547 – 8 August 1571)[69]
  • Vincenzo de Doncelli OP (24 September 1571 – 1585)[70]
  • Francesco Carusi OFMC (13 March or 13 May 15 85 – 4 September 1593)

Since 1600 edit

  • Cesare del Pezzo (1593 – 1621)[71]
  • Francesco Cavalieri (21 July 1621 – 4 September 1637)[72]
  • Francesco Boccapaduli (1638 – 1647)[73]
  • Alessandro Masi (27 May 1647 – 12 September 1648)[74]
  • Francesco Carducci (22 March 1649 – 5 November 1654).[75]
  • Gregorio Carducci (14 June 1655 – 15 January 1701)
  • Bonaventura Martinelli (21 November 1701–August 1715)[76]
  • Francesco Onofrio Odierna (1717 – 1727)[77]
  • Matteo Odierna, OSBOliv (1727 – 1738)[78]
  • Pietro Antonio Corsignani (1738 – 1751)[79]
  • Carlo De Ciocchis (24 January 1752 – 10 September 1762)[80]
  • Filippo Paini (22 November 1762 – 1799)[81]
    • Sede vacante (1799–1818)
  • Francesco Felice Tiberi, CO (1818 – 1829)[82]
  • Giuseppe Maria De Letto (1829 – 1839)[83]
  • Mario Mirone (1840 – 1853)[84]
  • Giovanni Sabatini (27 June 1853 – 10 March 1861)
    • Sede vacante (1861–1871)
  • Tobia Patroni (22 December 1871 – 20 August 1906)
  • Nicola Jezzoni (6 December 1906 – 18 July 1936), retired
  • Luciano Marcante (14 March 1937 – 29 January 1972), retired
  • Francesco Amadio (29 January 1972 – 14 May 1980), became Bishop of Rieti
  • Salvatore Delogu (8 January 1981 – 25 May 1985), resigned
  • Giuseppe Di Falco (25 May 1985 – 3 April 2007), retired
  • Angelo Spina (3 April 2007 – 2017)[85]
  • Michele Fusco (30 November 2017 - )[86]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Stuart Rossiter, Litellus Russell Muirhead (1964), Rome and Central Italy (E. Benn, 1964), pp. 443, 446. Roy Palmer Domenico, The Regions of Italy: A Reference Guide to History and Culture (London: Greenwood Press 2002), p. 6.
  2. ^ Umberto Benigni (1912). "Dioceses of Valva and Sulmona." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. Retrieved: 5 January 2023. Lanzoni, pp. 427-429; 442-443: "Se il titolare del monastero spoletino di S. Brizio è il vescovo di Tours, come si è detto, Britius resta automaticamente espunto dai cataloghi episcopali di Bettona e di Foligno, e da quello di Spoleto ove venne collocato e duplicato."
  3. ^ Ignazio di Pietro (1804), pp. 56-57.
  4. ^ Piccirilli (1901), p. 337, quotes the unpublished treatise of Canon Donato Strozzi, "Ma se questo è facile ad asserisi, è impossibibile a dimostrarsi con appoggio istorico di quei tempi. Di fatto nessuno scrittore dell'età vicina a S. Feliciano ne ha giammai fatto parola veruna.... Gli autori sulmonesi citati dal Di Pietro non possono meritare la credenza di una saggia cricita...." Christianity was still an illegal cult in the 3rd century, and did not have the right to own property. Its meetings, if they began before dawn, were considered illegal assembly. It was not until after the Edict of Milan that public worship became possible.
  5. ^ Ughelli I, p. 1361. Kehr IV, p. 253, no. 3.
  6. ^ Kehr IV, p. 255, no. 8. Orsini, p. 9. Kehr IV, p. 252: "Ecclesia cathedralis s. Pelini in comitatu Yalvensi in loco, ubi olim Corfinium surgebat, adhuc exstat penes oppidum Pentima."
  7. ^ Schwartz, p. 297.
  8. ^ Anonymous "Annales Casinenses," (ed. G.H. Pertz), under 1143, in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptorum Tomus XIX (Hannover: Hahn 1866), p. 310: "Rex iterum ad hunc locum venit, Terra Marsorum se ei tradidit. Thesaurum huius loci omnem cum tabula ante altare tollit, praeter crucem maiorem cum cyburio et tribus tabulis altaris."
  9. ^ Di Pietro (1804), pp. 125-126.
  10. ^ King Roger claimed that he, and his predecessors back to Robert Guiscard, had enjoyed the right to appoint bishops in their realms. Hubert Houben, Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West, (Cambridge University Press 2002), pp. 90-91.
  11. ^ Donald Matthew, The Norman Kingdom of Sicily (Cambridge University Press 1992), pp. 54-55. Pope Innocent II had died on 24 September 1143, and Pope Celestine II reigned only from 26 September 1143 to 8 March 1144. The next pope, Lucius II, reigned only from 12 March 1144 to 15 February 1145.
  12. ^ Orsini, p. 9.
  13. ^ Ughelli I, pp. 1377-1378: "Considerantes bonum statum Ecclesiae S. Pelini et S. Pamphili, ut pax inter praedictas Ecclesias praeserveturm unionem factam inter Capitula praedictarum Ecclesiarum super electione et nominatione et postulatione Valvensis epsicopi, et distinctione parochiarum praedictarum Ecclesiarum, confirmamus et ratificamus...."
  14. ^ Orsini, pp. 10-11.
  15. ^ Henry Biaudet, Les nonciatures apostoliques permanentes, jusqu' en 1648 (Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedakatemie 1910), pp. 118, 203.
  16. ^ M. Buonocore & G. Morelli (1987), Pietro Antonio Corsignani nel terzo centenario della nascita (1686-1986) . Atti del Convegno di studio (Celano , 8-9 novembre 1986), (in Italian), L'Aquila: L.U. Japadre 1987). Pietro Antonio Corsignani, De viris illustribus Marsorum liber singularis, (in Latin), Rome , 1712. Pietro Antonio Corsignani, Reggia Marsicana , ovvero memorie topographico-storiche di varie Colonie, e Città antiche e moderne, Napoli 1738.
  17. ^ M. Baratta, I terremoti d'Italia (Torino: Bocca 1901), p. 72: "nella massima parte ruinata."
  18. ^ Orsini, p. 14: "... per gl’infrangenti del terremoto, succeduto à 3 novembre del passato anno 1706, ... cadde tutta la nostra cattedrale nella sua lamia, e Cappelle nuovamente erette, assieme con tutto il palazzo vescovile...."
  19. ^ M. Baratta, I terremoti d'Italia (Torino: Bocca 1901), p. 201.
  20. ^ F. Galadini & R. Carrozzo (2014), "I terremoti a Sulmona: sismologia storica per la microzonazione sismica," in: Quaderni di Geofisica, No. 118, Marzo 2014, ISSN no.1590-2595 pp. 4-30, at p. 13.
  21. ^ J.N.D. Kelly & M. Walsh, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, second edition (Oxford University Press 2010), pp. 307-308,
  22. ^ Umberto Benigni (1912). "Dioceses of Valva and Sulmona." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. Retrieved: 5 January 2023.
  23. ^ Orsini, p. 22.
  24. ^ F. Torelli (1848), La chiave del concordato dell'anno 1818 I, second edition (Naples: Fibreno 1848), pp. 1-19.
  25. ^ Torelli I, p. 9.
  26. ^ Bulliarii Romani Continuatio Tomus 25 (Rome 1853), p. 57, § 30: "Episcopales autem ecclesiae Aversasa, Militensis , Valvensis, et Sulmonensis, Pennensis et Atriensis, Melphiensis et Rappollensis invicem respecti ve unitae, Trojana, Neritonensis, Triventina, ac Marsorum seu Marsicana in eo quo ad praesens reperiuntur statu etiam in posterum permanebunt....." The bull of 1818 does not say that Sulmona and Vulva were united as a single diocese.
  27. ^ Bulliarii Romani Continuatio Tomus 25 (Rome 1853), pp. 118-119, no. DCCCXV.
  28. ^ Christus Dominus 40. Therefore, in order to accomplish these aims this sacred synod decrees as follows: 1) The boundaries of ecclesiastical provinces are to be submitted to an early review and the rights and privileges of metropolitans are to be defined by new and suitable norms. 2) As a general rule all dioceses and other territorial divisions that are by law equivalent to dioceses should be attached to an ecclesiastical province. Therefore dioceses which are now directly subject to the Apostolic See and which are not united to any other are either to be brought together to form a new ecclesiastical province, if that be possible, or else attached to that province which is nearer or more convenient. They are to be made subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the bishop, in keeping with the norms of the common law. 3) Wherever advantageous, ecclesiastical provinces should be grouped into ecclesiastical regions for the structure of which juridical provision is to be made.
  29. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (in Latin) 64 (Città del Vaticano 1972), pp. 665-666: "novam condimus provinciam ecclesiasticam, quae coalescet Ecclesia ipsa Aquilana, dioecesibus Marsorum, Valvensi et Sulmonensi, prae oculis videlicet habita norma decreti Concilii Vaticani II « Christus Dominus », n. 40. Item Sacrum Aquilanum Antistitem dignitate Metropolitae perpetuo insignimus."
  30. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis 79 (Città del Vaticano 1987), pp. 820-822.
  31. ^ Alberto Tanturri, "I primi sinodi postridentini nella diocesi di Valva e Sulmona," in: Campania Sacra 33 (2002), p. 111-112.
  32. ^ Sinodo diocesano di Valva e Sulmona..., (in Italian), Sulmona, Stabilimento tipografico Angeletti 1929. Orsini, p. 117.
  33. ^ Per l’inaugurazione della nuova ala del Seminario Diocesano in Sulmona, (in Italian), Pescara, Tip. Istituto Artigianelli Abruzzesi 1953. Orsini, p. 165.
  34. ^ Gerontius: Lanzoni, p. 373. Kehr IV, p. 253, no. 1, note, questions whether Geruntius was actually bishop of Valva. There is a contemporaneous bishop: "Ad eundeni Geruntium Gelasius I aliam epistolam circa Aufidianae eccl. episcopum inisit JK. 649. Praeterea Geruntius ep. quidam in Gelasii epistolis JK. 663. 705. 707.723. 739 occurrit, sed est Ficuclensis sive Cerviensis ep. certe intelligendus, qui Symmachi synodo Romanae a. 501 subscripsit (Mon. Germ. Auct. antiq. XII 433). Itaque, Ewaldii argumeiitis minime convictus, quaestionem, an Geruntius ep. Valvensis fuerit, in medio relinquo."
  35. ^ Palladius: Lanzoni, p. 373.
  36. ^ According to Francesco Lanzoni, p. 373, none of the three bishops named Fortunatus who took part in the council of Rome in 502 was a bishop of Valva: "i tre vescovi di nome Fortunatus, convenuti a Roma nel 502, appartennero rispettivamente a Sessa, a Foligno e ad Anagni, non a Corfìnium."
  37. ^ Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1931). Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo (in Latin). Vol. 2. K.W. Hiersemann. p. 928.
  38. ^ Gams. p. 928, col. 2. Kehr IV, p. 253, no. 2. In September 876, Pope John VIII (872–882) ordered the people of Valva to obey their bishop, Arnulfus.
  39. ^ Grimoaldus: Schwartz, p. 295. Cf. Kehr IV, p. 253, no. 3: "...sed iuxta quod Otto imp. Grimualdo ep. per praeceptum edixit..."
  40. ^ a b c Ughelli I, p. 1364. The names Tidelfus, Transaricus, and Suavilius are found only in a marginal notation in a Vatican manuscript of the "Vita S. Pelini". Their source and authority is unknown. Their dates are completely conjectural. Schwartz, p. 296, lists them as bishops. Lanzoni, p. 372, states concerning the "Vita S. Pelini" that it is a falsification and without historical value: "Una Passio Pelini o Peligni {BHL,6620-1), composta nell'xi secolo da un falsario... è destituita di ogni storico fondamento, e zeppa di anacronismi."
  41. ^ Dominicus had been abbot of the monastery of S. Clemente in Casauria. He was named a bishop by Pope Leo IX. On 21 December 1053, his privileges and properties were confirmed. Bishop Dominicus died on 11 March 1073. Schwartz, p. 296.
  42. ^ Trasmundus was the son of Count Oderisius of Marsi, and brother of the future Abbot Oderisius of Montecassino (1087–1105). He was consecrated by Pope Gregory VII in the first year of his pontificate (1073). In 1080, he left his diocese without permission, and was therefore forbidden by Pope Gregory to go back toote it; instead he was ordered to go to Montecassino, until some decision could be taken as to what to do with him ('donee cum ipso praefati loci abbate aliisque religiosis et prudentibus viris consilium capiat, quid de illo et illius ecclesia sit faciendum." Trasmundus paid no attention to the pope's command, but returned to Valva. Pope Gregory therefore wrote to people living in the diocese of Valva, ordering them to treat him like an invader ("sicut invasorem eum habeant et res ecclesiae, ne distrahere valeat a potestate ipsius, defendant"). Ughelli I, pp. 1363-1364. Kehr IV, p. 254, nos. 5 and 6. Schwartz, p. 296.
  43. ^ Schwartz, p. 297, posits two bishops Joannes. According to the "Chronicon of Carpineto", the first Bishop Joannes served for 2 years, 5 months, and 24 days, and was buried on 5 August (apparently in 1097). The second Bishop Joannes is attested in 1102 and 104.
  44. ^ On 26 March 1112, Pope Paschal II confirmed the boundaries and possessions of Bishop Gualterius' diocese. An inscription indicates that, as of January 1124, Bishop Gualterius had served for 20 years. Ughelli I, p. 1365. Kehr IV, p. 254, no. 7. Schwartz, p. 297.
  45. ^ The bishop is called Dodo by: Federigo Faraglia, Codice diplomatico Sulmonese (Lanciano 1888), p. 43, no. 33. Kehr IV, p. 255, no. 8. On 25 March 1138, Pope Innocent II confirmed the boundaries and possessions of the diocese of Valva. BIshop Dodo consecrated the altar of S. Benedict at the monastery of S. Clemente Casaurense, apparently in the 1140s. "Chronicon Casauriense", in: Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores II. 2 (Milan 1726), p. 893.
  46. ^ Di Pietro (1804), p. 126, quotes "un antica pergamena" stating that Gerardus, a canon of S. Pelini, was elected by the two Chapters, but was never consecrated; after three years he resigned the election due to "aegritudinem"; this was in the time of King Roger. Ughelli I, pp. 1365-1366: "Gerardus, vir venerabilis, electus de episcopio S. Pelini et S. Pamphili."
  47. ^ Pope Eugenius III ordered Bishop Sciginulfus to appear before him to answer charges laid by monks of the abbey of Farfa. On 20 December 1156, Pope Adrian IV again confirmed the boundaries and possessions of the diocese of Valva. On 13 January of either 1166 or 1167, Pope Alexander III confirmed the judgment of Pope Adrian IV in favor of Bishop Siginulfus against the monks of the monasteries of S. Maria de Mammonaco and of S. Peregrinus. Ughelli I, pp. 1366-1367. Kehr IV, p. 255-256, nos. 9–16.
  48. ^ Oderisius: Ughelli I, pp. 1368-1369. Kehr IV, p. 256-257, no. 17-26.
  49. ^ Guilelmus: Eubel I, p. 513, note 1.
  50. ^ Oddo: Ughelli I, pp. 1370-1372. Eubel I, p. 513 with note 2.
  51. ^ Berardus was Provost of S. Pamfili in Sulmona. He was elected but rejected by Pope Honorius III as inappropriate (minus idoneus). The pope ordered the Chapter of Valva to summon the Chapter of S. Pamfili in Sulmona and others who ought to be called to an election, to assemble and choose a suitable candidate. They evidently failed to do so, for, on 26 February 1227, Pope Honorius ordered the two Chapters to assemble within a month and elect a bishop; otherwise, three of them should appear before the pope, who would appoint a bishop for them. P. Pressutti, Regesta Honorii III papa, Vol. II (Roma: Typographia Vaticana 1895), p. 419, no. 5916 (5 May 1226); p. 483, no. 6261 (26 February 1227). Eubel I, p. 513, note 2.
  52. ^ On 18 July 1235, Pope Gregory IX addressed himself to the abbot of Casa Nova (diocese of Penne), ordering him, in considration of the legal squabble between the Chapter of S. Pelini of Valva and the Chapter of S. Pamfili of Sulmona which was delaying the election of a new bishop, to see to it that the temporal and spiritual condition of the diocese should suffer no harm; he should fix a definite day by which the two Chapters should carry out an election or request the papacy to appoint a bishop. Lucien Auvray, Les registres de Gregoire IX, Tome II (Paris: Fontemoing 1899), pp. 116-117, no. 2682. Eubel I, p. 513, note 3.
  53. ^ On 3 October 1247, Pope Innocent IV ordered Cardinal Stephanus de Normandis, to have Walterus de Ocra removed from the bishopric, since he was elected in an uncanonical election; the cardinal is ordered to appoint the archpriest of S. Lucia in Rome or some other suitable person as bishop. Élie Berger, Les registres d'Innocent IV Tome I (Paris:E. Thorin 1884), p. 493, no. 3278. Eubel I, p. 513, note 3.
  54. ^ Eubel I, p. 513, note 3. He recognizes a Jacobus, O.P. between 10 April 1252 and 1263
  55. ^ On 10 April 1252, Pope Innocent IV wrote to the Chapter of the cathedral of Valva, that he had provided (appointed) the Cistercian monk Jacobus of the monastery of Casa Nova as bishop of Valva. He had consecrated Jacobus with his own hands. Élie Berger, Les registres d'Innocent IV Tome III (Paris: Fontemoing 1897), p. 36, no. 5624. According to Pius Bonifacius Gams, p. 928, column 2, there were two bishops named Jacobus, a Cistercian and then a Dominican; and a total of four bishops named Jacobus.
  56. ^ The Chapters, convents, and colleges in the Kingdom of Sicily had been prohibited by the pope from proceeding to an election upon a vacancy in their church. Jacobus de ordine Praedicatorum of Orvieto was therefore provided (appointed) bishop of Valva by Pope Urban IV on 6 March 1263. Jean Guiraud, Les registres d'Urbain IV Tome I (Paris: Fontemoing 1901), p. 95, no. 218. Ughelli I, p. 1378, no. 31. Eubel I, p. 513.
  57. ^ In the election for a new bishop of Valva, a divided body of electors proposed two candidates, both abbots. Instead, Pope Nicholas III appointed Giles of Liège. On 28 August 1290, Pope Nicholas IV ratified the resignation which Bishop Egidius had submitted to Cardinal Gerard, Bishop of Sabina, the papal legate in the Kingdom of Sicily. Ughelli I, p. 1378. Jules Gay, Les registres de Nicolas III Tome 1 (Paris: Fontemoing 1898), pp. 161-162, no. 425. Eubel I, p. 513 with note 4.
  58. ^ On 28 August 1291, Pope Nicholas IV appointed Abbot Guilelmus of the monastery of Manayacensis ((diocese of Montisregalis) to be apostolic administrator of the diocese of Valva. Ughelli I, p. 1378. Ernest Langlois, Les Registres de Nicolas IV Tome II (Paris: Fontemoing 1905), pp. 791-792, no. 5862. Eubel I, p. 513.
  59. ^ Bishop-elect Pietro, a councillor of King Charles II of Sicily, was named a cardinal by Pope Celestine V on 18 September 1294. His successor was appointed on 30 March 1295. Ughelli I, pp. 1378-1379. Eubel I, pp. 12, no. 5; 513-514.
  60. ^ Federico Raimondo of Chieti was appointed bishop of Valva by Pope Boniface VIII on 30 March 1295. He died in 1307. Ughelli I, p. 1379. Di Pietro (1804), pp. 197-200 (who places the death in 1306). Eubel I, p. 514.
  61. ^ Roberto had been Provost of the collegiate church of S. Martino de Illice (diocese of Penne). He was named bishop of Sulmona by Pope Clement VII on 18 April 1379. He was appointed Archbishop of Salerno by Pope Clement on 2 July 1382. Eubel I, p. 430, says he was still bishop-elect. Eubel I, p. 514.
  62. ^ Bishop Nicola was appointed Bishop of Digne by Pope Clement VII on 4 June 1397). Eubel I, pp. 514.
  63. ^ Eubel I, pp. 514.
  64. ^ Bartolomeo of Tocco was esteemed for his learning by Pope Innocent VII, who gave him his own mitre. In 1404, he was serving as papal treasurer in Bologna and Faenza. He died in 1419. Eubel I, pp. 514 with note 12.
  65. ^ Ughelli I, p. 1382, no. 54, states that Acuti was from Sulmona and was appointed in 1499; he offers no evidence. Di Pietro (1804, p. 300, repeats Ughelli, and offers no evidence. Gams, p. 929, offering no evidence. Cf. Eubel III, p. 262, note 4.
  66. ^ According to Eubel II, p. 262, who does not list Giovanni Acuti, Prospero was confirmed in the papal consistory of 25 October 1499. He resigned in 1514, and was succeeded by Giovanni Battista Cavicchio on 28 July 1514. Eubel III, p. 326, with note 2.
  67. ^ Cardinal della Valle was appointed Apostolic Administrator by Pope Leo X on 26 October 1519. The cardinal administered the diocese through a Vicar General, Canon Ascanio de' Matteis. Cardinal Alessandro Farnese had been granted the right of succession (an expectation?), but he did not exercise it, in favor of Cristóbal de los Ríos. Di Pietro (1804), p. 308. Eubel III, p. 326.
  68. ^ Di Pietro (1804), p. 316, knows nothing of Farnese, De los Rios, Orazio della Valle or De Lerma. He makes Cardinal della Valle's administratorship last for ten years, until the appointment of Bernardo Cavalieri. This is copied by Gams, p. 929, column 1.
  69. ^ Born in Bologna in 1518, Zambeccari was the son of Count Giacomo d'Assero, senator of Bologna. Pompeo held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure. He had a natural son, Lepido, whose own son Girolamo Maria Zambeccari, was chamberlain of the grand duke of Tuscany. Pompeo was papal nuncio in Portugal from 1550 to 1560. Armando Pepe (2017), Le relazioni “ad limina” dei vescovi della diocesi di Alife (1590–1659) (Tricase: Youcanprint Self-Publishing), p. 45. Maria Celeste Cola (2012), Palazzo Valentini a Roma: La committenza Zambeccari, Boncompagni, Bonelli tra Cinquecento e Settecento, (Roma: Gangemi Editore 2012), pp. 43-46.
  70. ^ "Bishop Vincenzo de Doncelli (Donzelli), O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
  71. ^ A native of Salerno, Del Pezzo was appointed bishop of Sulmona e Valva on 24 November 1593, by Pope Clement VIII. He held a diocesan synod on 6 April 1603. He died on 23 April (ix Kal.Maii) 1621. Di Pietro (1804), p. 335-338, 341. Eubel III, p. 326. Gauchat Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 358 with note 2.
  72. ^ Cavalieri: Gauchat IV, p. 358 with note 3.
  73. ^ Boccapaduli was appointed bishop of Sulmona e Valva on 13 September 1638, by Pope Urban VIII. He was named Bishop of Città di Castello on 6 May 1647, by Pope Innocent X.. On 12 September 1652, he was named papal nuncio to Switzerland, then Venice. He died in Rome in 1580. Di Pietro (1804), p. 344. Gauchat IV, pp. 152 with note 8; 358 with note 4.
  74. ^ Masi: Gauchat IV, p. 358 with note 5.
  75. ^ Carducci: Gauchat IV, p. 358 with note 6.
  76. ^ Martinelli: Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 404 with note 3.
  77. ^ Odierna was a doctor of theology (1666) and Doctor in utroque iure (University of Naples). had been a canon with prebend of the cathedral of Naples. He was bishop of Bitetto from 1684 to 1717. He was named bishop of Valva on 4 January 1717. Bishop Odierna resigned from the diocese of Valva on 6 March 1727, in favor of his nephew, and, on 17 March 1727, was appointed titular archbishop of Beirut (Lebanon, Ottoman Empire). He died in 1735. Ritzler & Sefrin V, pp. 119 with note 7; 120 with note 5; 404 with note 4. "Bishop Francesco Onofrio Hodierna" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved August 21, 2016.[self-published source]. "Bishop Francesco Onofrio Odierna" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016[self-published source]. Chiaverini, Antonino (1980). La diocesi di Valva e Sulmona. Vol. 8. Sulmona. pp. 97–129.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  78. ^ Born in Naples in 1680, Matteo Odierna was appointed bishop of Valva on 17 March 1727. He was consecrated a bishop in Rome by Cardinal Vincenzo Petra on 25 April 1727. He died in Naples in June 1738. Di Pietro (1804), pp. 362-363 (stating that Odierna died in July 1738). Ritzler & Sefrin V, p. 404 with note 5.
  79. ^ Born in Celano in 1688, Corsignani had been Provost of the collegiate church of Celano (diocese of Marsi). He held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure (Rome: Sapienza 1707). Corsignani had been Bishop of Venosa from 1727 to 1738. He was transferred to Valva e Sulmona by Pope Clement XII on 23 July 1738. He died in Celano on 17 October 1751. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 410 with note 9; VI, pp. 431 with note 2.
  80. ^ De Ciocchis resigned on 10 September 1762. Ritzler & Sefrin VI, pp. 431 with note 3.
  81. ^ Paini: Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 431 with note 4.
  82. ^ A priest of the Oratory of S. Philip Neri, Tiberi was appointed bishop of Sulmona e Valva by Pope Pius VII on 6 April 1818. He died on 22 April 1829. He was the author of: Manuale pontificum pro functionibus persolvendis candelarum, cinerum, majoris hebdomadae, ac vigiliae Pentecostes episcopo celebrante, vel assistente ab ill. et rev. domino d. Francisco Felice ex comitibus Tiberii episcopo Valven et Sulmonen ad usum sacrosantae cathedralis basilicae Sulmonen et omnium ecclesiarum cathedralium exaratum, (in Latin), Neapoli: ex porcelliano typographeo, 1823. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia Catholica VII, p. 388.
  83. ^ Deletto (or De Letto) was a native of Sulmona. He held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure, and was a canon of the cathedral of Valva e Sulmona, and Vicar Capitular. On 4 May 1829, Deletto was nominated bishop of Valva e Sulmona by Francis I of the Two Sicilies. He was appointed by Pope Pius VIII on 27 July 1829. He died on 10 November 1839. Diario di Roma Numero 60, Anno 1829 (Roma: Cracas 1829), p. 1. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia Catholica VII, p. 388.
  84. ^ Born in 1789 in Catania (Sicily), Mirone was a canon of the collegiate church of S. Maria detta dell ' Elemosina di Catania. He was nominated bishop of Valva e Sulmone on 10 January 1840 by Ferdinand II, and approved by Pope Gregory XVI on 27 April 1840. On 26 May 1853, Mirone was nominated bishop of Noto by Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. On 27 June 1853, Bishop Mirone was transferred to the diocese of Noto by Pope Pius IX. Almanacco reale del Regno delle Due Sicilie: per l'anno .... 1841, Napoli: Stamperia Reale, 1841, p. 195. Ritzler & Sefrin VII, p. 388; VIII, p. 410.
  85. ^ On 14 July 2017, Spina was appointed Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo by Pope Francis. Arcidiocesi di Ancona-Osimo, "Arcivescovo. Mons. Angelo Spina;" (in Italian); retrieved: 10 January 2023.
  86. ^ Fusco was born on 6 December 1963 in Piano di Sorrento (NA). He was ordained a priest on 25 June 1988. He was appointed Bishop of Sulmona-Valva on 30 November 2017, by Pope Francis, and received episcopal ordination on 4 January 2018. He took possession of the diocese on 4 February 2018. Diocesi di Sulmona-Valva, "Vescovo. S.E. Mons. MICHELE FUSCO", (in Italian); retrieved: 10 January 2023.

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Episcopal lists edit

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Studies edit

  • Amadio, Francesco, and others (1980). La Cattedrale di San Panfilo a Sulmona (in Italian). Cinisello Balsamo (Milano): Silvana, 1980.
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  • Lanzoni, Francesco (1927). Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604). Faenza: F. Lega. (in Italian) pp.  372-373.
  • Orsini, Pasquale (2005). Archivio storico della Curia diocesana di Sulmona: Inventario. (in Italian and Latin). Sulmona: Diocesi di Sulmona–Valva 2005.
  • Piccirilli, P. (1901), "Notizie su la primitiva cattedrale sulmonese e un'antica iscrizione creduta smarrita," in: Rivista abruzzese di scienze, lettere ed arti, VOl. 17 (1901), pp. 336-339.
  • Schwartz, Gerhard (1907). Die Besetzung der Bistümer Reichsitaliens unter den sächsischen und salischen Kaisern: mit den Listen der Bischöfe, 951-1122. (in German) Leipzig: B.G. Teubner. pp. 295-296.
  • Tanturri, Alberto (2002), "I primi sinodi postridentini nella diocesi di Valva e Sulmona," (in Italian), in: Campania Sacra 33 (2002), pp. 109 - 138.
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The Diocese of Sulmona Valva Latin Dioecesis Sulmonensis Valvensis is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in central Italy in the Abruzzi region approximately 120 km 75 mi directly east of Rome Corfinio Valva is 14 km north northwest of Sulmona Diocese of Sulmona ValvaDioecesis Sulmonensis ValvensisSulmona CathedralLocationCountryItalyEcclesiastical provinceL AquilaStatisticsArea1 814 km2 700 sq mi Population Total Catholics as of 2020 85 000 est 83 000 guess Parishes76InformationDenominationCatholic ChurchRiteRoman RiteEstablished6th CenturyCathedralBasilica Cattedrale di S Panfilo Vescovo Sulmona Co cathedralConcattedrale di S Pelino Corfinio Patron saintSaint PamphilusSecular priests45 diocesan 22 Religious Orders 8 Permanent DeaconsCurrent leadershipPopeFrancisBishopMichele FuscoBishops emeritusGiuseppe Di FalcoMapWebsitewww diocesisulmona valva itThe current configuration was created in 1986 through the union of the two dioceses into one The combined single diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of L Aquila In 1818 the status of the Diocese of Sulmona and the Diocese of Valva was acknowledged as two separate dioceses united in having one and the same person as bishop of both dioceses aeque personaliter an arrangement which stretched all the way back to the 13th century and earlier Contents 1 History 1 1 Fictional origins 1 2 Early bishops 1 3 Normans 1 4 Earthquakes 1 5 French occupation 1 6 Reorganization 1 7 Diocesan unification 2 List of bishops 2 1 to 1300 2 2 1300 to 1600 2 3 Since 1600 3 See also 4 Notes 5 Bibliography 5 1 Episcopal lists 5 2 Studies 5 2 1 External linksHistory editIn the Lombard period Sulmona was subject to the Duchy of Spoleto later it belonged to the counts of Marsi When the Normans conquered the Abruzzi Sulmona increased in importance In 1233 Emperor Frederick II made it the capital of the Gran Giustizierato of the Abruzzi 1 Fictional origins edit Legend associates the evangelization of the district with the name of Saint Britius Bishop of Spoleto in the second century 2 Local legend in Sulmona credits the evangelization with Saint Feliciano Bishop of Foligno in the middle of the third century He is said to have reconsecrated the temple of Apollo and Vesta as the cathedral of S Maria Regina de Caelo Santa Maria in Bussi which at the beginning of the 9th century had its name changed to S Panfilo 3 The claim however has no evidence to support it 4 Early bishops edit The first known Bishop of Sulmona is Palladius 499 in 503 Pamphilus of Sulmona Bishop of Valva died about 706 he was buried in Sulmona Cathedral Four or five other bishops of Valva are known but none of Sulmona until 1054 when Pope Leo IX named as Bishop of Valva the Benedictine Domenico and determined the limits of the Dioceses of San Pelino Saint Pelinus i e Valva and San Panfilo Saint Pamphilus i e Sulmona which were to have only one bishop elected by the two chapters 5 On 25 March 1138 Pope Innocent II wrote to Bishop Dodo reconfirming his possessions and privileges and mentioning in passing that the bishop had his throne at S Pelini in Corfinio Valva Ecclesiam santi Pelini ubi Episcopalis habetur sedes 6 The body of S Pelinus had been transferred to the church of S Pelino in Corfinio Valva in 1124 7 Normans edit In 1143 King Roger II of Sicily invaded Campania and seized the monastery of Montecassino all of whose treasures he confiscated The territory of the Marsi surrendered to him 8 His sons occupied the territory of Marsi which included not only the County of Marsi but the County of Valva Bishop Dodo was already dead having died according to Di Pietro in 1142 9 King Roger appointed 10 new bishops at Chieti and Valva 11 On 7 April 1168 the cathedral chapter of S Pelino and the cathedral chapter of S Panfilo entered into an agreement that both had the right to participate in the naming a bishop 12 On 16 October 1256 Bishop Giacomo di Penne a former monk of Casa Nova presided over a meeting of the canons of the two cathedrals at which it was agreed that the two chapters should unite in electing a bishop as frequent disputes had arisen when they acted separately 13 In the winter of 1336 1337 a group of armed men stationed themselves in the cathedral of S Pamfilo in Sulmona in order they said to prevent others from attacking or occupying it In the especially cold winter weather they tore up the flooring of the episcopal palace next door took out the wooden beams and made fires to keep warm The palace was severely damaged 14 Other bishops were Pompeo Zambeccari 1547 1571 nuncio in Portugal from March 1550 to July 1560 15 Francesco Boccapaduli 1638 and Pietro Antonio Corsignani 1738 the historian of the Abruzzi 16 Earthquakes edit In the earthquake of 5 December 1456 Sulmona was for the most part destroyed 17 On 3 November 1706 a major earthquake devastated Sulmona and Valva The cathedral of S Pamfilo in Sulmona was completely destroyed along with its chapels and the entire episcopal palace was levelled 18 Approximately 1 000 people died 19 Major earthquakes also occurred in 1915 1933 1984 and 2009 20 French occupation edit The see remained vacant from 1800 till 1818 From 1809 to 1815 Pope Pius VII was a prisoner of Napoleon in France and his policy was not to cooperate with the French in filling bishoprics 21 When Napoleon did so on his own authority as King of Italy it created havoc in one diocese after another 22 The vacancy also saw the occupation of Sulmona by the French beginning on 6 January 1799 and the suppression of all the religious orders in 1807 23 When the Congress of Vienna restored the Papal States and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1815 disputes arose between the Holy See and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies involving matters of restoration of church property and the issue of feudal submission of King Ferdinand to Pope Pius VII Three years of negotiations were necessary A concordat was finally 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 24 The re erection of the dioceses of the kingdom and the ecclesiastical provinces took more than three years 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 25 On 27 June 1818 Pius VII issued the bull De Ulteriore in which in the cases of several dioceses Sulmona and Valva among them no change was made from the status quo ante 26 On 25 September 1818 Pope Pius granted the cathedral of S Pamfilo in Sulmona the honorary title of minor basilica 27 Reorganization edit Following the Second Vatican Council and in accordance with the norms laid out in the council s decree Christus Dominus chapter 40 28 Pope Paul VI ordered a reorganization of the ecclesiastical provinces in southern Italy On 15 August 1972 a new ecclesiastical province was created with L Aquila which had previously been directly subject to the Holy See as the new metropolitan archbishopric The diocese of the Marsi later renamed Avezzano and the diocese of Valva e Sulmona were appointed suffragans 29 Diocesan unification edit 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 Sulmona and the diocese of Valva be merged into one diocese with one bishop with the Latin title Dioecesis Sulmonensis Valvensis The seat of the diocese was to be in Sulmona where the cathedral was to serve as the cathedral of the merged dioceses The cathedral in Valva was to have the honorary title of co cathedral the Chapter of Valva was to be a Capitulum Concathedralis There was to be only one diocesan Tribunal in Sulmona 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 dioceses of Sulmona and Valva The new diocese was made a suffragan of the archdiocese of L Aquila 30 Diocesan synods were held in 1572 1590 1603 1620 1629 and 1715 In 1572 the meeting was held at S Pamfilo in Sulmona but the canons of S Pelino in Valva though they attended presented a memorial claiming precedence over the canons of S Pamfilo 31 A diocesan synod was held by Bishop Nicola Jezzoni 1906 1936 in 1929 32 A new diocesan seminary was opened Sulmona in 1953 33 List of bishops editPostnominal initials Benedictine OSB Dominican OP Cistercian OCist Franciscan OFM Minorite OFMC Augustinian OESA Oratorian CO Olivetan OSBOliv to 1300 edit Geruntius mentioned in 494 495 bishop of Valva 34 Palladius mentioned in 499 bishop of Sulmona 35 Fortunatus 502 36 Pamphilus 682 700 bishop of Sulmona 37 Gradescus mentioned in 701 bishop of Sulmona Vadpert mentioned in 775 Ravennus mentioned in 840 Arnulfus mentioned in 843 38 Opitarmo mentioned in 880 Grimoald attested 968 983 39 Tidelfus 40 Transeric 40 Suavilius 40 Dominicus OSB 1053 1073 41 Transmundus 1073 1080 42 Joannes 1092 1104 43 Gualterius 1104 1124 44 Dodo 1130 1140 45 Gerardus Giraldus 1143 1145 46 Sciginulfus attested c 1146 1167 47 Oderisius of Raino 1172 1193 48 Guilelmus 1194 1205 49 Odo 1207 before 6 May 1226 50 Sede vacante 1226 1227 Berardus 1226 1227 51 dd Nicholas 1227 1247 Sede vacante 1235 52 Walter of Ocra 1247 53 Jacobus I OCist 1249 1251 54 Jacobus II O Cist 10 April 1252 1263 55 Jacobus III of Orvieto OP 6 March 1263 after 1273 56 Egidius de Leodio OFM 25 February 1279 1290 57 Guilelmus OSB 28 August 1291 1294 Administrator 58 Pietro d Aquila OSB 1294 Bishop elect 59 1300 to 1600 edit Federico Raimondo de Letto 1295 1307 60 Landulfus 4 June 1307 1319 Andrea Capograssi 25 May 1319 1330 Pietro di Anversa OFM 4 May 1330 1333 Nicolo di Pietro Rainaldi 30 October 1333 1343 Francesco di Sangro 12 February 1343 1348 Landulf II 2 July 1348 1349 Francesco de Silanis OFM 17 January 1350 Martino de Martinis 14 April 1368 1379 Roberto de Illice 18 April 1379 2 July 1382 Avignon Obedience 61 Paolo da Letto around 1379 Roman Obedience Nicola de Cervario OFM 2 July 1382 4 June 1397 Avignon Obedience 62 Bartolomeo Gaspare 1384 Roman Obedience 63 Bartolomeo Petrini 1402 1419 Roman Obedience 64 Lotto Sardi 6 March 1420 21 May 1427 became Archbishop of Spoleto Benedetto Guidalotti 21 May 1427 29 October 1427 became Bishop of Teramo Bartolomeo Vinci 29 October 1427 December 1442 Francesco de Oliveto OSB 12 August 1443 14 June 1447 became Bishop of Rapolla Pietro d Aristotile 14 June 1447 1448 Donato Bottino OESA 4 September 1448 1463 Bartolomeo Scala OP 3 October 1463 1491 Giovanni Melini Gagliardi 7 November 1491 1499 Giovanni Acuti 65 Prospero de Rusticis 1499 1514 66 Giovanni Battista Cavicchio 28 July 1514 1519 Andrea della Valle 26 October 1519 1521 Administrator 67 Cristobal de los Rios 18 June 1521 1523 68 Orazio della Valle 17 July 1523 1528 Francisco de Lerma 14 August 1528 Bernardo Cavalieri delle Milizie 3 September 1529 1532 Bernardino Fumarelli 13 November 1532 5 June 1547 Pompeo Zambeccari 1 July 1547 8 August 1571 69 Vincenzo de Doncelli OP 24 September 1571 1585 70 Francesco Carusi OFMC 13 March or 13 May 15 85 4 September 1593 Since 1600 edit Cesare del Pezzo 1593 1621 71 Francesco Cavalieri 21 July 1621 4 September 1637 72 Francesco Boccapaduli 1638 1647 73 Alessandro Masi 27 May 1647 12 September 1648 74 Francesco Carducci 22 March 1649 5 November 1654 75 Gregorio Carducci 14 June 1655 15 January 1701 Bonaventura Martinelli 21 November 1701 August 1715 76 Francesco Onofrio Odierna 1717 1727 77 Matteo Odierna OSBOliv 1727 1738 78 Pietro Antonio Corsignani 1738 1751 79 Carlo De Ciocchis 24 January 1752 10 September 1762 80 Filippo Paini 22 November 1762 1799 81 Sede vacante 1799 1818 Francesco Felice Tiberi CO 1818 1829 82 Giuseppe Maria De Letto 1829 1839 83 Mario Mirone 1840 1853 84 Giovanni Sabatini 27 June 1853 10 March 1861 Sede vacante 1861 1871 Tobia Patroni 22 December 1871 20 August 1906 Nicola Jezzoni 6 December 1906 18 July 1936 retired Luciano Marcante 14 March 1937 29 January 1972 retired Francesco Amadio 29 January 1972 14 May 1980 became Bishop of Rieti Salvatore Delogu 8 January 1981 25 May 1985 resigned Giuseppe Di Falco 25 May 1985 3 April 2007 retired Angelo Spina 3 April 2007 2017 85 Michele Fusco 30 November 2017 86 See also editCorfinio Valva Roman Catholic Diocese of Avezzano Marsi Roman Catholic Archdiocese of L Aquila metropolitan List of Catholic dioceses in ItalyNotes edit Stuart Rossiter Litellus Russell Muirhead 1964 Rome and Central Italy E Benn 1964 pp 443 446 Roy Palmer Domenico The Regions of Italy A Reference Guide to History and Culture London Greenwood Press 2002 p 6 Umberto Benigni 1912 Dioceses of Valva and Sulmona The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol 15 New York Robert Appleton Company 1912 Retrieved 5 January 2023 Lanzoni pp 427 429 442 443 Se il titolare del monastero spoletino di S Brizio e il vescovo di Tours come si e detto Britius resta automaticamente espunto dai cataloghi episcopali di Bettona e di Foligno e da quello di Spoleto ove venne collocato e duplicato Ignazio di Pietro 1804 pp 56 57 Piccirilli 1901 p 337 quotes the unpublished treatise of Canon Donato Strozzi Ma se questo e facile ad asserisi e impossibibile a dimostrarsi con appoggio istorico di quei tempi Di fatto nessuno scrittore dell eta vicina a S Feliciano ne ha giammai fatto parola veruna Gli autori sulmonesi citati dal Di Pietro non possono meritare la credenza di una saggia cricita Christianity was still an illegal cult in the 3rd century and did not have the right to own property Its meetings if they began before dawn were considered illegal assembly It was not until after the Edict of Milan that public worship became possible Ughelli I p 1361 Kehr IV p 253 no 3 Kehr IV p 255 no 8 Orsini p 9 Kehr IV p 252 Ecclesia cathedralis s Pelini in comitatu Yalvensi in loco ubi olim Corfinium surgebat adhuc exstat penes oppidum Pentima Schwartz p 297 Anonymous Annales Casinenses ed G H Pertz under 1143 in Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptorum Tomus XIX Hannover Hahn 1866 p 310 Rex iterum ad hunc locum venit Terra Marsorum se ei tradidit Thesaurum huius loci omnem cum tabula ante altare tollit praeter crucem maiorem cum cyburio et tribus tabulis altaris Di Pietro 1804 pp 125 126 King Roger claimed that he and his predecessors back to Robert Guiscard had enjoyed the right to appoint bishops in their realms Hubert Houben Roger II of Sicily A Ruler between East and West Cambridge University Press 2002 pp 90 91 Donald Matthew The Norman Kingdom of Sicily Cambridge University Press 1992 pp 54 55 Pope Innocent II had died on 24 September 1143 and Pope Celestine II reigned only from 26 September 1143 to 8 March 1144 The next pope Lucius II reigned only from 12 March 1144 to 15 February 1145 Orsini p 9 Ughelli I pp 1377 1378 Considerantes bonum statum Ecclesiae S Pelini et S Pamphili ut pax inter praedictas Ecclesias praeserveturm unionem factam inter Capitula praedictarum Ecclesiarum super electione et nominatione et postulatione Valvensis epsicopi et distinctione parochiarum praedictarum Ecclesiarum confirmamus et ratificamus Orsini pp 10 11 Henry Biaudet Les nonciatures apostoliques permanentes jusqu en 1648 Helsinki Suomalainen Tiedakatemie 1910 pp 118 203 M Buonocore amp G Morelli 1987 Pietro Antonio Corsignani nel terzo centenario della nascita 1686 1986 Atti del Convegno di studio Celano 8 9 novembre 1986 in Italian L Aquila L U Japadre 1987 Pietro Antonio Corsignani De viris illustribus Marsorum liber singularis in Latin Rome 1712 Pietro Antonio Corsignani Reggia Marsicana ovvero memorie topographico storiche di varie Colonie e Citta antiche e moderne Napoli 1738 M Baratta I terremoti d Italia Torino Bocca 1901 p 72 nella massima parte ruinata Orsini p 14 per gl infrangenti del terremoto succeduto a 3 novembre del passato anno 1706 cadde tutta la nostra cattedrale nella sua lamia e Cappelle nuovamente erette assieme con tutto il palazzo vescovile M Baratta I terremoti d Italia Torino Bocca 1901 p 201 F Galadini amp R Carrozzo 2014 I terremoti a Sulmona sismologia storica per la microzonazione sismica in Quaderni di Geofisica No 118 Marzo 2014 ISSN no 1590 2595 pp 4 30 at p 13 J N D Kelly amp M Walsh Oxford Dictionary of Popes second edition Oxford University Press 2010 pp 307 308 Umberto Benigni 1912 Dioceses of Valva and Sulmona The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol 15 New York Robert Appleton Company 1912 Retrieved 5 January 2023 Orsini p 22 F Torelli 1848 La chiave del concordato dell anno 1818 I second edition Naples Fibreno 1848 pp 1 19 Torelli I p 9 Bulliarii Romani Continuatio Tomus 25 Rome 1853 p 57 30 Episcopales autem ecclesiae Aversasa Militensis Valvensis et Sulmonensis Pennensis et Atriensis Melphiensis et Rappollensis invicem respecti ve unitae Trojana Neritonensis Triventina ac Marsorum seu Marsicana in eo quo ad praesens reperiuntur statu etiam in posterum permanebunt The bull of 1818 does not say that Sulmona and Vulva were united as a single diocese Bulliarii Romani Continuatio Tomus 25 Rome 1853 pp 118 119 no DCCCXV Christus Dominus 40 Therefore in order to accomplish these aims this sacred synod decrees as follows 1 The boundaries of ecclesiastical provinces are to be submitted to an early review and the rights and privileges of metropolitans are to be defined by new and suitable norms 2 As a general rule all dioceses and other territorial divisions that are by law equivalent to dioceses should be attached to an ecclesiastical province Therefore dioceses which are now directly subject to the Apostolic See and which are not united to any other are either to be brought together to form a new ecclesiastical province if that be possible or else attached to that province which is nearer or more convenient They are to be made subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the bishop in keeping with the norms of the common law 3 Wherever advantageous ecclesiastical provinces should be grouped into ecclesiastical regions for the structure of which juridical provision is to be made Acta Apostolicae Sedis in Latin 64 Citta del Vaticano 1972 pp 665 666 novam condimus provinciam ecclesiasticam quae coalescet Ecclesia ipsa Aquilana dioecesibus Marsorum Valvensi et Sulmonensi prae oculis videlicet habita norma decreti Concilii Vaticani II Christus Dominus n 40 Item Sacrum Aquilanum Antistitem dignitate Metropolitae perpetuo insignimus Acta Apostolicae Sedis 79 Citta del Vaticano 1987 pp 820 822 Alberto Tanturri I primi sinodi postridentini nella diocesi di Valva e Sulmona in Campania Sacra 33 2002 p 111 112 Sinodo diocesano di Valva e Sulmona in Italian Sulmona Stabilimento tipografico Angeletti 1929 Orsini p 117 Per l inaugurazione della nuova ala del Seminario Diocesano in Sulmona in Italian Pescara Tip Istituto Artigianelli Abruzzesi 1953 Orsini p 165 Gerontius Lanzoni p 373 Kehr IV p 253 no 1 note questions whether Geruntius was actually bishop of Valva There is a contemporaneous bishop Ad eundeni Geruntium Gelasius I aliam epistolam circa Aufidianae eccl episcopum inisit JK 649 Praeterea Geruntius ep quidam in Gelasii epistolis JK 663 705 707 723 739 occurrit sed est Ficuclensis sive Cerviensis ep certe intelligendus qui Symmachi synodo Romanae a 501 subscripsit Mon Germ Auct antiq XII 433 Itaque Ewaldii argumeiitis minime convictus quaestionem an Geruntius ep Valvensis fuerit in medio relinquo Palladius Lanzoni p 373 According to Francesco Lanzoni p 373 none of the three bishops named Fortunatus who took part in the council of Rome in 502 was a bishop of Valva i tre vescovi di nome Fortunatus convenuti a Roma nel 502 appartennero rispettivamente a Sessa a Foligno e ad Anagni non a Corfinium Gams Pius Bonifatius 1931 Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo in Latin Vol 2 K W Hiersemann p 928 Gams p 928 col 2 Kehr IV p 253 no 2 In September 876 Pope John VIII 872 882 ordered the people of Valva to obey their bishop Arnulfus Grimoaldus Schwartz p 295 Cf Kehr IV p 253 no 3 sed iuxta quod Otto imp Grimualdo ep per praeceptum edixit a b c Ughelli I p 1364 The names Tidelfus Transaricus and Suavilius are found only in a marginal notation in a Vatican manuscript of the Vita S Pelini Their source and authority is unknown Their dates are completely conjectural Schwartz p 296 lists them as bishops Lanzoni p 372 states concerning the Vita S Pelini that it is a falsification and without historical value Una Passio Pelini o Peligni BHL 6620 1 composta nell xi secolo da un falsario e destituita di ogni storico fondamento e zeppa di anacronismi Dominicus had been abbot of the monastery of S Clemente in Casauria He was named a bishop by Pope Leo IX On 21 December 1053 his privileges and properties were confirmed Bishop Dominicus died on 11 March 1073 Schwartz p 296 Trasmundus was the son of Count Oderisius of Marsi and brother of the future Abbot Oderisius of Montecassino 1087 1105 He was consecrated by Pope Gregory VII in the first year of his pontificate 1073 In 1080 he left his diocese without permission and was therefore forbidden by Pope Gregory to go back toote it instead he was ordered to go to Montecassino until some decision could be taken as to what to do with him donee cum ipso praefati loci abbate aliisque religiosis et prudentibus viris consilium capiat quid de illo et illius ecclesia sit faciendum Trasmundus paid no attention to the pope s command but returned to Valva Pope Gregory therefore wrote to people living in the diocese of Valva ordering them to treat him like an invader sicut invasorem eum habeant et res ecclesiae ne distrahere valeat a potestate ipsius defendant Ughelli I pp 1363 1364 Kehr IV p 254 nos 5 and 6 Schwartz p 296 Schwartz p 297 posits two bishops Joannes According to the Chronicon of Carpineto the first Bishop Joannes served for 2 years 5 months and 24 days and was buried on 5 August apparently in 1097 The second Bishop Joannes is attested in 1102 and 104 On 26 March 1112 Pope Paschal II confirmed the boundaries and possessions of Bishop Gualterius diocese An inscription indicates that as of January 1124 Bishop Gualterius had served for 20 years Ughelli I p 1365 Kehr IV p 254 no 7 Schwartz p 297 The bishop is called Dodo by Federigo Faraglia Codice diplomatico Sulmonese Lanciano 1888 p 43 no 33 Kehr IV p 255 no 8 On 25 March 1138 Pope Innocent II confirmed the boundaries and possessions of the diocese of Valva BIshop Dodo consecrated the altar of S Benedict at the monastery of S Clemente Casaurense apparently in the 1140s Chronicon Casauriense in Ludovico Antonio Muratori Rerum Italicarum Scriptores II 2 Milan 1726 p 893 Di Pietro 1804 p 126 quotes un antica pergamena stating that Gerardus a canon of S Pelini was elected by the two Chapters but was never consecrated after three years he resigned the election due to aegritudinem this was in the time of King Roger Ughelli I pp 1365 1366 Gerardus vir venerabilis electus de episcopio S Pelini et S Pamphili Pope Eugenius III ordered Bishop Sciginulfus to appear before him to answer charges laid by monks of the abbey of Farfa On 20 December 1156 Pope Adrian IV again confirmed the boundaries and possessions of the diocese of Valva On 13 January of either 1166 or 1167 Pope Alexander III confirmed the judgment of Pope Adrian IV in favor of Bishop Siginulfus against the monks of the monasteries of S Maria de Mammonaco and of S Peregrinus Ughelli I pp 1366 1367 Kehr IV p 255 256 nos 9 16 Oderisius Ughelli I pp 1368 1369 Kehr IV p 256 257 no 17 26 Guilelmus Eubel I p 513 note 1 Oddo Ughelli I pp 1370 1372 Eubel I p 513 with note 2 Berardus was Provost of S Pamfili in Sulmona He was elected but rejected by Pope Honorius III as inappropriate minus idoneus The pope ordered the Chapter of Valva to summon the Chapter of S Pamfili in Sulmona and others who ought to be called to an election to assemble and choose a suitable candidate They evidently failed to do so for on 26 February 1227 Pope Honorius ordered the two Chapters to assemble within a month and elect a bishop otherwise three of them should appear before the pope who would appoint a bishop for them P Pressutti Regesta Honorii III papa Vol II Roma Typographia Vaticana 1895 p 419 no 5916 5 May 1226 p 483 no 6261 26 February 1227 Eubel I p 513 note 2 On 18 July 1235 Pope Gregory IX addressed himself to the abbot of Casa Nova diocese of Penne ordering him in considration of the legal squabble between the Chapter of S Pelini of Valva and the Chapter of S Pamfili of Sulmona which was delaying the election of a new bishop to see to it that the temporal and spiritual condition of the diocese should suffer no harm he should fix a definite day by which the two Chapters should carry out an election or request the papacy to appoint a bishop Lucien Auvray Les registres de Gregoire IX Tome II Paris Fontemoing 1899 pp 116 117 no 2682 Eubel I p 513 note 3 On 3 October 1247 Pope Innocent IV ordered Cardinal Stephanus de Normandis to have Walterus de Ocra removed from the bishopric since he was elected in an uncanonical election the cardinal is ordered to appoint the archpriest of S Lucia in Rome or some other suitable person as bishop Elie Berger Les registres d Innocent IV Tome I Paris E Thorin 1884 p 493 no 3278 Eubel I p 513 note 3 Eubel I p 513 note 3 He recognizes a Jacobus O P between 10 April 1252 and 1263 On 10 April 1252 Pope Innocent IV wrote to the Chapter of the cathedral of Valva that he had provided appointed the Cistercian monk Jacobus of the monastery of Casa Nova as bishop of Valva He had consecrated Jacobus with his own hands Elie Berger Les registres d Innocent IV Tome III Paris Fontemoing 1897 p 36 no 5624 According to Pius Bonifacius Gams p 928 column 2 there were two bishops named Jacobus a Cistercian and then a Dominican and a total of four bishops named Jacobus The Chapters convents and colleges in the Kingdom of Sicily had been prohibited by the pope from proceeding to an election upon a vacancy in their church Jacobus de ordine Praedicatorum of Orvieto was therefore provided appointed bishop of Valva by Pope Urban IV on 6 March 1263 Jean Guiraud Les registres d Urbain IV Tome I Paris Fontemoing 1901 p 95 no 218 Ughelli I p 1378 no 31 Eubel I p 513 In the election for a new bishop of Valva a divided body of electors proposed two candidates both abbots Instead Pope Nicholas III appointed Giles of Liege On 28 August 1290 Pope Nicholas IV ratified the resignation which Bishop Egidius had submitted to Cardinal Gerard Bishop of Sabina the papal legate in the Kingdom of Sicily Ughelli I p 1378 Jules Gay Les registres de Nicolas III Tome 1 Paris Fontemoing 1898 pp 161 162 no 425 Eubel I p 513 with note 4 On 28 August 1291 Pope Nicholas IV appointed Abbot Guilelmus of the monastery of Manayacensis diocese of Montisregalis to be apostolic administrator of the diocese of Valva Ughelli I p 1378 Ernest Langlois Les Registres de Nicolas IV Tome II Paris Fontemoing 1905 pp 791 792 no 5862 Eubel I p 513 Bishop elect Pietro a councillor of King Charles II of Sicily was named a cardinal by Pope Celestine V on 18 September 1294 His successor was appointed on 30 March 1295 Ughelli I pp 1378 1379 Eubel I pp 12 no 5 513 514 Federico Raimondo of Chieti was appointed bishop of Valva by Pope Boniface VIII on 30 March 1295 He died in 1307 Ughelli I p 1379 Di Pietro 1804 pp 197 200 who places the death in 1306 Eubel I p 514 Roberto had been Provost of the collegiate church of S Martino de Illice diocese of Penne He was named bishop of Sulmona by Pope Clement VII on 18 April 1379 He was appointed Archbishop of Salerno by Pope Clement on 2 July 1382 Eubel I p 430 says he was still bishop elect Eubel I p 514 Bishop Nicola was appointed Bishop of Digne by Pope Clement VII on 4 June 1397 Eubel I pp 514 Eubel I pp 514 Bartolomeo of Tocco was esteemed for his learning by Pope Innocent VII who gave him his own mitre In 1404 he was serving as papal treasurer in Bologna and Faenza He died in 1419 Eubel I pp 514 with note 12 Ughelli I p 1382 no 54 states that Acuti was from Sulmona and was appointed in 1499 he offers no evidence Di Pietro 1804 p 300 repeats Ughelli and offers no evidence Gams p 929 offering no evidence Cf Eubel III p 262 note 4 According to Eubel II p 262 who does not list Giovanni Acuti Prospero was confirmed in the papal consistory of 25 October 1499 He resigned in 1514 and was succeeded by Giovanni Battista Cavicchio on 28 July 1514 Eubel III p 326 with note 2 Cardinal della Valle was appointed Apostolic Administrator by Pope Leo X on 26 October 1519 The cardinal administered the diocese through a Vicar General Canon Ascanio de Matteis Cardinal Alessandro Farnese had been granted the right of succession an expectation but he did not exercise it in favor of Cristobal de los Rios Di Pietro 1804 p 308 Eubel III p 326 Di Pietro 1804 p 316 knows nothing of Farnese De los Rios Orazio della Valle or De Lerma He makes Cardinal della Valle s administratorship last for ten years until the appointment of Bernardo Cavalieri This is copied by Gams p 929 column 1 Born in Bologna in 1518 Zambeccari was the son of Count Giacomo d Assero senator of Bologna Pompeo held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure He had a natural son Lepido whose own son Girolamo Maria Zambeccari was chamberlain of the grand duke of Tuscany Pompeo was papal nuncio in Portugal from 1550 to 1560 Armando Pepe 2017 Le relazioni ad limina dei vescovi della diocesi di Alife 1590 1659 Tricase Youcanprint Self Publishing p 45 Maria Celeste Cola 2012 Palazzo Valentini a Roma La committenza Zambeccari Boncompagni Bonelli tra Cinquecento e Settecento Roma Gangemi Editore 2012 pp 43 46 Bishop Vincenzo de Doncelli Donzelli O P Catholic Hierarchy org David M Cheney Retrieved March 21 2016 A native of Salerno Del Pezzo was appointed bishop of Sulmona e Valva on 24 November 1593 by Pope Clement VIII He held a diocesan synod on 6 April 1603 He died on 23 April ix Kal Maii 1621 Di Pietro 1804 p 335 338 341 Eubel III p 326 Gauchat Hierarchia catholica IV p 358 with note 2 Cavalieri Gauchat IV p 358 with note 3 Boccapaduli was appointed bishop of Sulmona e Valva on 13 September 1638 by Pope Urban VIII He was named Bishop of Citta di Castello on 6 May 1647 by Pope Innocent X On 12 September 1652 he was named papal nuncio to Switzerland then Venice He died in Rome in 1580 Di Pietro 1804 p 344 Gauchat IV pp 152 with note 8 358 with note 4 Masi Gauchat IV p 358 with note 5 Carducci Gauchat IV p 358 with note 6 Martinelli Ritzler amp Sefrin Hierarchia catholica V p 404 with note 3 Odierna was a doctor of theology 1666 and Doctor in utroque iure University of Naples had been a canon with prebend of the cathedral of Naples He was bishop of Bitetto from 1684 to 1717 He was named bishop of Valva on 4 January 1717 Bishop Odierna resigned from the diocese of Valva on 6 March 1727 in favor of his nephew and on 17 March 1727 was appointed titular archbishop of Beirut Lebanon Ottoman Empire He died in 1735 Ritzler amp Sefrin V pp 119 with note 7 120 with note 5 404 with note 4 Bishop Francesco Onofrio Hodierna Catholic Hierarchy org David M Cheney Retrieved August 21 2016 self published source Bishop Francesco Onofrio Odierna GCatholic org Gabriel Chow Retrieved February 29 2016 self published source Chiaverini Antonino 1980 La diocesi di Valva e Sulmona Vol 8 Sulmona pp 97 129 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Born in Naples in 1680 Matteo Odierna was appointed bishop of Valva on 17 March 1727 He was consecrated a bishop in Rome by Cardinal Vincenzo Petra on 25 April 1727 He died in Naples in June 1738 Di Pietro 1804 pp 362 363 stating that Odierna died in July 1738 Ritzler amp Sefrin V p 404 with note 5 Born in Celano in 1688 Corsignani had been Provost of the collegiate church of Celano diocese of Marsi He held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure Rome Sapienza 1707 Corsignani had been Bishop of Venosa from 1727 to 1738 He was transferred to Valva e Sulmona by Pope Clement XII on 23 July 1738 He died in Celano on 17 October 1751 Ritzler amp Sefrin Hierarchia catholica V p 410 with note 9 VI pp 431 with note 2 De Ciocchis resigned on 10 September 1762 Ritzler amp Sefrin VI pp 431 with note 3 Paini Ritzler amp Sefrin VI p 431 with note 4 A priest of the Oratory of S Philip Neri Tiberi was appointed bishop of Sulmona e Valva by Pope Pius VII on 6 April 1818 He died on 22 April 1829 He was the author of Manuale pontificum pro functionibus persolvendis candelarum cinerum majoris hebdomadae ac vigiliae Pentecostes episcopo celebrante vel assistente ab ill et rev domino d Francisco Felice ex comitibus Tiberii episcopo Valven et Sulmonen ad usum sacrosantae cathedralis basilicae Sulmonen et omnium ecclesiarum cathedralium exaratum in Latin Neapoli ex porcelliano typographeo 1823 Ritzler amp Sefrin Hierarchia Catholica VII p 388 Deletto or De Letto was a native of Sulmona He held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure and was a canon of the cathedral of Valva e Sulmona and Vicar Capitular On 4 May 1829 Deletto was nominated bishop of Valva e Sulmona by Francis I of the Two Sicilies He was appointed by Pope Pius VIII on 27 July 1829 He died on 10 November 1839 Diario di Roma Numero 60 Anno 1829 Roma Cracas 1829 p 1 Ritzler amp Sefrin Hierarchia Catholica VII p 388 Born in 1789 in Catania Sicily Mirone was a canon of the collegiate church of S Maria detta dell Elemosina di Catania He was nominated bishop of Valva e Sulmone on 10 January 1840 by Ferdinand II and approved by Pope Gregory XVI on 27 April 1840 On 26 May 1853 Mirone was nominated bishop of Noto by Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies On 27 June 1853 Bishop Mirone was transferred to the diocese of Noto by Pope Pius IX Almanacco reale del Regno delle Due Sicilie per l anno 1841 Napoli Stamperia Reale 1841 p 195 Ritzler amp Sefrin VII p 388 VIII p 410 On 14 July 2017 Spina was appointed Archbishop of Ancona Osimo by Pope Francis Arcidiocesi di Ancona Osimo Arcivescovo Mons Angelo Spina in Italian retrieved 10 January 2023 Fusco was born on 6 December 1963 in Piano di Sorrento NA He was ordained a priest on 25 June 1988 He was appointed Bishop of Sulmona Valva on 30 November 2017 by Pope Francis and received episcopal ordination on 4 January 2018 He took possession of the diocese on 4 February 2018 Diocesi di Sulmona Valva Vescovo S E Mons MICHELE FUSCO in 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Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi in Latin Vol VII 1800 1846 Monasterii Libreria Regensburgiana Remigius Ritzler Pirminus Sefrin 1978 Hierarchia catholica Medii et recentioris aevi in Latin Vol VIII 1846 1903 Il Messaggero di S Antonio Pieta Zenon 2002 Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi in Latin Vol IX 1903 1922 Padua Messagero di San Antonio ISBN 978 88 250 1000 8 Studies edit Amadio Francesco and others 1980 La Cattedrale di San Panfilo a Sulmona in Italian Cinisello Balsamo Milano Silvana 1980 Cappelletti Giuseppe 1870 Le chiese d Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni in Italian Vol vigesimoprimo 21 Venezia Antonelli pp 440 443 D Avino Vincenzio 1848 Cenni storici sulle chiese arcivescovili vescovili e prelatizie nullius del regno delle due Sicilie in Italian Naples dalle stampe di Ranucci pp 735 744 Di Pietro Ignazio 1804 Memorie storiche della citta di Solmona in Italian Napoli stamp di A Raimondi 1804 Di Pietro Ignazio 1806 Memorie storiche degli uomini illustri della citta di Solmona raccolte dal P D Ignazio di Pietro con breve serie de vescovi solmonesi e valvesi in Italian Aquila nella stamperia Grossiana 1806 Kehr Paul Fridolin 1908 Italia pontificia vol IV Berlin 1909 pp 252 266 in Latin Lanzoni Francesco 1927 Le diocesi d Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII an 604 Faenza F Lega in Italian pp 372 373 Orsini Pasquale 2005 Archivio storico della Curia diocesana di Sulmona Inventario in Italian and Latin Sulmona Diocesi di Sulmona Valva 2005 Piccirilli P 1901 Notizie su la primitiva cattedrale sulmonese e un antica iscrizione creduta smarrita in Rivista abruzzese di scienze lettere ed arti VOl 17 1901 pp 336 339 Schwartz Gerhard 1907 Die Besetzung der Bistumer Reichsitaliens unter den sachsischen und salischen Kaisern mit den Listen der Bischofe 951 1122 in German Leipzig B G Teubner pp 295 296 Tanturri Alberto 2002 I primi sinodi postridentini nella diocesi di Valva e Sulmona in Italian in Campania Sacra 33 2002 pp 109 138 Ughelli Ferdinando Coleti Niccolo 1717 Italia sacra sive De Episcopis Italiae et insularum adjacentium in Latin Vol Tomus primus 1 editio secunda aucta et emendata ed Venice apud Sebastianum Coleti pp 1358 1386 External links edit Diocese of Sulmona Valva Catholic Hierarchy org David M Cheney Retrieved February 29 2016 self published source Diocese of Sulmona Valva GCatholic org Gabriel Chow Retrieved February 29 2016 self published source 42 02 53 N 13 55 34 E 42 048025 N 13 926198 E 42 048025 13 926198 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Roman Catholic Diocese of Sulmona Valva amp oldid 1216503546, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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