List of the bishops of Venosa

The following people were bishops of Venosa (Basilicata, Italy ):
(Note: the first bishops are uncertain or controversial and are marked with a “?”.)

Filippo? (called 238)
Giovanni? (called 443)
Austero (Asterio)? (called 493)
Stefano (494/495-502)
...
Pietro I? (called 1014)
Giaquinto? (called 1053)
Morando (called 1059)
Ruggero (called 1069)
Costantino (Costanzo) (1071-1074)
Berengario (around 1093 -?)
Roberto? (called 1105)
Fulco (called 1113)
Pietro II (1177-1183)
NN † (named 1199, 1209, 1215 and 1222)
Bono (called 1223)
NN † (called 1233 and 1236)
NN (? - around November 1238 †)
Giacomo (called 1256)
NN (? - around 1269 †)
Filippo de Pistorio, OP (May 1271 - May 1281)
Santoro (1282/1283 - 1284)
Guido (1299-1302)
Pietro III † (July 12, 1331 - July 4, 1334) then Archbishop of Acerenza
Raimondo Agonti de Clareto, OCarm † (August 17, 1334 -?)
Pietro IV (August 13, 1360 -?)
Goffredo (? - 1363 †)
Tommaso (June 14, 1363-1367)
Lorenzo (called 1383)
Giannotto (Giovanni) (called 1385)
Francesco Veneraneri (December 1, 1386 -?)
- Stefano (? †) counter-bishop
- Salvatore Gerardo di Altomonte (June 13, 1387 -?) Counter-bishop
- Nicola Francesco Grassi (August 18, 1387 -?) Counter-bishop
Giovanni III (as Bishop from July 21, 1395 - 1400) then as Giovanni II. Bishop of Grosseto
Andrea Fusco (May 12, 1400--1419 †)
Domenico (Dionigi) da Monteleone OP (November 13, 1419 - 1431 †)
Roberto Procopii (May 23, 1431-1457 †)

Nicola Solimele ( 1457-1459 †)

Nicola Gerolamo Porfido (October 17, 1459 - 1469 †)

Sigismondo Pappacoda (December 3, 1492 - May 10, 1499) then Bishop of Tropea

Antonio Fabregas (Antonio Civalerio) (May 10, 1499--1501 †)

Bernardino Bongiovanni (June 14, 1501--1509 †)

Lamberto Arbaud (November 16, 1510 -?)

Tommaso da San Cipriano OP (1519 -?)

Guido de 'Medici (June 12, 1527 - January 3, 1528) then Archbishop of Chieti

Fernando de Gerona OSA (March 23, 1528-1542).

Alvaro Della Quadra (May 12, 1542 - 1551)

Simone Gattola (March 13, 1552 - April 1566 †)

Francesco Rusticucci (August 21, 1566 - January 31, 1567) then Bishop of Fano

Paolo Oberti OP (February 17, 1567 - September 13, 1567 †)

Giovanni Antonio Locatelli (December 12, 1567 - September 7, 1571 †)

Baldassarre Giustiniani (February 6, 1572 - March 13, 1584 †)

Giovanni Tommaso Sanfelice (May 4, 1584 - March 6, 1585 †)

Giovanni Gerolamo Mareri (March 20, 1585 - January 28, 1587 †)

Pietro Ridolfi , OFMConv † (February 18, 1587 - February 18, 1591) then Bishop of Senigallia

Vincenzo Calcio OP (February 18, 1591 - May 3, 1598 †)

Sigismondo Donati † (August 17, 1598 - January 7, 1605) then Bishop of Ascoli Piceno

Mario Moro (August 3, 1605 - 1610 †)

Andrea Pierbenedetto (March 14, 1611 - 1634 †)

Bartolomeo Frigerio (September 17, 1635 - November 13, 1636 †)

Gaspare Conturla (January 15, 1638 - April 1640 †)

Sallustio Pecolo (December 3, 1640 - March 13, 1648)

Antonio Pavonelli OFMConv (May 18, 1648 - July or September 23, 1653 †)

Giacinto Torisi OP (October 5, 1654 - March 25, 1674 †)

Giovanni Battista Desio (May 7, 1674 - August 1677 †)

Francesco Maria Neri (January 10, 1678 - late 1684 †)

Giovanni Francesco de Lorenzi (May 14, 1685 - October 1698 †)

Placido Stoppa , CR (April 11, 1699 - December 1710 †)

Vacancy (1710-1718)

Giovanni Michele Teroni B (January 10, 1718 - July 1726 †)

Felipe Itúrbide (Yturibe), OCarm (July 31, 1726 - March 13, 1727) then Archbishop of Dubrovnik

Pietro Antonio Corsignani (March 17, 1727 - July 22, 1738) then Bishop of Valva and Sulmona

Francesco Antonio Salomone (September 3, 1738 - May 17, 1743 †)

Giuseppe Giusti (Bishop) (May 20, 1743 - 1764 †)

Gaspare Barletta (December 17, 1764--1778 †)

Pietro Silvio De Gennaro (July 12, 1779 - around 1786 †)

Salvatore Gonnelli (June 18, 1792 - September 23, 1801 †)

Vacancy (1801-1818)

Nicola Caldora (June 26, 1818 - December 10, 1825)

Luigi Maria Canisio (April 9, 1827 - June 25, 1827) then Bishop of Gaeta

Federico Guarini OSB (June 23, 1828 - September 1837 †)

Michele de Gattis (October 2, 1837 - April 23, 1847 †)

Antonio Michele Vaglio (December 22, 1848 - July 28, 1865 †)

Vacancy (1865-1871)

Nicola De Martino (December 22, 1871 - July 15, 1878)

Girolamo Volpe (July 15, 1878 - February 27, 1880) then Bishop of Alife

Francesco Maria Imparati OFM (February 27, 1880 - June 23, 1890) then Bishop of Acerenza and Matera

Lorenzo Antonelli (June 1, 1891 - July 13, 1905 †)

Felice Del Sordo (August 12, 1907 - October 12, 1911) then Bishop of Alife

Giovanni Battista Niola (October 1912 - November 1912)

Angelo Petrelli (May 20, 1913 - September 11, 1923 †)

Alberto Costa (April 30, 1924 - December 7, 1928) then Bishop of Lecce

Luigi Orabona dell'Aversana (January 14, 1931 - November 6, 1934 †)

Domenico Petroni (April 1, 1935 - October 5, 1966)

Vacancy (1966-1973)

Giuseppe Vairo (March 5, 1973 - October 25, 1976)

Armando Franco (October 25, 1976 - September 12, 1981) then Bishop of Oria

Vincenzo Cozzi (September 12, 1981 - September 30, 1986) then first Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa

Web links

Entry on Diocese of Venosa on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on June 17, 2019.

Individual evidence

^ The first three bishops after Ferdinando Ughelli , Italia sacra , vol. VII, col. 168; on the other hand Lanzoni, op. cit. , Pp. 298-299. Also: Paul Kehr, Italia pontificia , IX, Berlino 1962, pp. 488f; Ada Campione, Cristianizzazione e nuclei agiografici della Basilicata in epoca tardoantica , in Siris 12 (2012), p. 95.
↑ according to P. Kehr, Pietro I is identical to Pietro II. See also: G. Fortunato, La badia di Monticchio ; Trani 1904, p. 343. G. Montano, Brevi note su poche iscrizioni antiche , Potenza, 1900, pp. 13-25.
↑ to be struck off the list according to P. Kehr, because the certificate is forged.
^ Kehr, Italia pontificia , IX, pp. 489, 490 (No. 4).
↑ according to P. Kehr also to be deleted, since it is not certain that he was a bishop.
^ Kehr, Italia pontificia , IX, p. 489.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Norbert Kamp , Church and Monarchy in the Staufer Kingdom of Sicily , Volume 2, Prosopographical Foundation: Dioceses and Bishops of the Kingdom 1194 - 1266; Apulien und Kalabrien, Munich 1975, pp. 804-808.
↑ according to P. Kamp, Church and Monarchy ... , p. 805, annotation. 17, the identification of this bishop is uncertain. F. Ughelli, Italia sacra , vol. VII, col. 172. made the first.
↑ according to P. Kamp, Kirche und Monarchie… , p. 806, due to a lack of documents it cannot be said with certainty that the bishop who died in 1269 is the Giacomo mentioned in 1256. The diocese is vacant from June 1269 to August 1270. .
↑ according to Eubel, "Nicola Solimele" and "Nicola Gerolamo Porfido" are identical; after Gams there are two bishops.
↑ Rafael Lazcano, Episcopologio Agustiniano . Agustiniana. Guadarrama (Madrid) 2014, vol. I, pp. 546-547.
↑ Titular Archbishop of on March 17, 1727 Side appointed

[1] The first three bishops after Ferdinando Ughelli , Italia sacra , vol. VII, col. 168; on the other hand Lanzoni, op. cit. , Pp. 298-299. Also: Paul Kehr, Italia pontificia , IX, Berlino 1962, pp. 488f; Ada Campione, Cristianizzazione e nuclei agiografici della Basilicata in epoca tardoantica , in Siris 12 (2012), p. 95.

[2] rding to P. Kehr, Pietro I is identical to Pietro II. See also: G. Fortunato, La badia di Monticchio ; Trani 1904, p. 343. G. Montano, Brevi note su poche iscrizioni antiche , Potenza, 1900, pp. 13-25.

[3] to be struck off the list according to P. Kehr, because the certificate is forged.

[4] Kehr, Italia pontificia , IX, pp. 489, 490 (No. 4).

[5] rding to P. Kehr also to be deleted, since it is not certain that he was a bishop.

[6] Kehr, Italia pontificia , IX, p. 489.

[Kamp1-7] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Norbert Kamp , Church and Monarchy in the Staufer Kingdom of Sicily , Volume 2, Prosopographical Foundation: Dioceses and Bishops of the Kingdom 1194 - 1266; Apulien und Kalabrien, Munich 1975, pp. 804-808.

[8] rding to P. Kamp, Church and Monarchy ... , p. 805, annotation. 17, the identification of this bishop is uncertain. F. Ughelli, Italia sacra , vol. VII, col. 172. made the first.

[9] rding to P. Kamp, Kirche und Monarchie… , p. 806, due to a lack of documents it cannot be said with certainty that the bishop who died in 1269 is the Giacomo mentioned in 1256. The diocese is vacant from June 1269 to August 1270. .

[10] rding to Eubel, "Nicola Solimele" and "Nicola Gerolamo Porfido" are identical; after Gams there are two bishops.

[11] Rafael Lazcano, Episcopologio Agustiniano . Agustiniana. Guadarrama (Madrid) 2014, vol. I, pp. 546-547.

[12] Titular Archbishop of on March 17, 1727 Side appointed