Diocese of Cefalù

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Diocese of Cefalù
Map of the Diocese of Cefalù
Basic data
Country Italy
Church region Sicily
Ecclesiastical province Palermo
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Palermo
Diocesan bishop Giuseppe Marciante
Emeritus diocesan bishop Vincenzo Manzella
founding 1131
surface 1,718 km²
Parishes 53 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 116,500 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 111,800 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 96%
Diocesan priest 70 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 18 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,270
Permanent deacons 8 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 21 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 64 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Italian
cathedral Santissimo Salvatore in Cefalù
Website www.diocesicefalu.org
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province of Palermo

The diocese of Cefalù ( Latin Dioecesis Cephaludensis , Italian Diocesi di Cefalù ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy , located in Sicily , with its seat in Cefalù .

It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Palermo in the ecclesiastical region of Sicily and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Palermo .

history

Santissimo Salvatore Cathedral

The diocese (ό Κεφαλουδίου) has been recorded in the Greek lists of bishops ( notitiae episcopatuum ) since the end of the 8th century . The only person known by name is Niketas, who took part in the Council in Constantinople in 869-70 . The diocese is likely to have perished under the Arab rule. A mosaic floor was found between the south tower and the corner of the portico of today's cathedral , which is assigned to a late antique-Byzantine (6th-8th century) single-nave basilica . It lies above a street from the time of Augustus and could have been the episcopal church. The marble door posts, which were reused under the Bema of the Roger Cathedral , probably also come from this building .

The canons of Cefalù were raised to the seat of the bishopric in 1131 by Anaklet II at the request of Rogers II . The first bishop was Iocelmus, previously prior of S. Maria di Bagnara (1131–1146), but from 1139 he was only referred to as Elekt . His successors Harduin (1150–1156) and Daniel (1157) also did not receive canonical consecration. Only Boso (1157–1172) was able to achieve full episcopal dignity. Until the end of 1166 he called himself Elekt, after being recognized by Alexander III. he called himself primus Cephaludi episcopus .

Cefalù was assigned to the Archdiocese of Messina together with Lipari-Patti as a suffragan. In 1844 it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Palermo as a suffragan.

Archival material

In 1857 a smaller part of the archive, which includes almost all older documents, was transferred to the Palermo State Archive ( Tabulario della Chiesa Vescovile di Cefalù ), the larger part is in the Archivio Capitolare in Cefalù. The copy book, the Rollus Rubeus , created between 1329 and 1330 , which also contains news about documents that have been lost today, is also in the Archivio di Stato.

See also

literature

  • Italia Pontificia sive Repertorium privilegiorum et litterarum a Romanis pontificibus ante annum MCLXXXXVIII Italiae ecclesiis, monasteriis, civitatibus singulisque personis concessorum , t. X: Calabria - Insulae, ed. Dieter Girgensohn , Zurich 1975, p. 362ff.
  • Eduard Winkelmann : Bishop Harduin of Cefalù and his trial. An episode from the life of Emperor Frederick II. In: MIÖG - supplementary volume 1 (1885), pp. 298–358.
  • Michele Granà, Il processo di Alduino II, vescovo di Cefalù (1223–1224). Palermo 1988.

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Cefalù  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amadeo Tullio, "Segni" della prima comunità cristiana di Cefalù . In: Amadeo Tullio, Cefalù. Ricerche archeologiche con la collaborazione di Santa Aloisio e Maria G. Montalbano. Palermo 2006. pp. 29-33, ISBN 978-88-7075-083-6
  2. ↑ Corrado Mirto, Rollus Rubeus. Privilegia ecclesie cephaleditane, a diversis regibus et imperatoribus concessa, recollecta et in hoc volumine scripta . Palermo 1972, ISBN 88-7401-017-6