Bisignano diocese

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The diocese Bisignano ( Latin Bisinianensis ) was a Roman Catholic diocese in Italy with a bishopric in Bisignano in Calabria . As an immediates diocese, it was directly subordinate to the Holy See . The episcopal church was today's co-cathedral Santa Maria Assunta in Bisignano.

history

Bisignano, in antiquity Besidias or Besidianum , became the seat of a Norman count in the 11th century and later became the property of the Orsini .

A bishop is first recorded in Bisignano in the 10th century, when a certain Uluttus is mentioned in a biography of Saint Uilo von Rossano . A bishop Federico (Fridericus), who officiated since 1331, was killed in 1339. In 1354 Johannes Marignola was Bishop of Bisignano.

When Albanian religious refugees settled in Italy at the end of the 15th century , they also founded several settlements in the area of ​​the Diocese of Bisignano. They spoke Albanian and followed the Byzantine rite ; The Arbëresh ethnic group and the Italo-Albanian Church emerged from this settlement movement .

The Diocese of Bisignano was abolished on June 27, 1818 by Pope Pius VII with the Bull De utiliori and its territory was combined with the Diocese of San Marco Argentano to form the immediate diocese of "San Marco and Bisignano". At the beginning of the 20th century included 64 parishes with 256 priests and 110,000 inhabitants, several monasteries of men and a nun - Convention .

On April 4, 1979 the territory of the Diocese of Bisignano was united with that of the Archdiocese of Cosenza and renamed "Archdiocese of Cosenza and Bisignano". Since September 30, 1986, the diocese has been called " Archdiocese of Cosenza-Bisignano ".

See also

literature

  • Vincenzio d'Avino: Cenni storici sulle chiese arcivescovili, vescovili e prelatizie (nullius) del Regno delle Due Sicilie. Naples 1848, pp. 65-72 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Umberto Benigni:  San Marco and Bisignano . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 13, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1912.
  2. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams : Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae. Regensburg 1873–1886, reprint Graz 1957, p. 858 ( online )
  3. ↑ Horst Enzensberger : Mendicanti nelle sedi vescovili della Calabria (fino alla morte di Martino V 1431) . In: Archivio Storico per la Calabria e la Lucania 84, 2018, pp. 57–93, here p. 60 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Entry on Diocese of Bisignano on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on June 19, 2020.