Gallipoli diocese

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Former Cathedral of Sant'Agata in Gallipoli

The diocese of Gallipoli ( Latin Dioecesis Gallipolitana , Italian Diocesi di Gallipoli ) was a Roman Catholic diocese in Italy with its seat in Gallipoli in Apulia , which existed until 1986.

history

The existence of the diocese of Gallipoli has been attested since the year 551, when Bishop Dominicus signed the condemnation of Bishop Theodore of Caesarea announced by Pope Vigilius . In 553 Dominicus took part in the Second Council of Constantinople . The next testimonies for bishops can be found in the Registrum epistolarum of Gregory the Great . Popular legend traces the foundation back to Saint Pancratius , a disciple of the Apostle Peter , who is said to have been bishop in Taormina first in Gallipoli and only afterwards .

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire , the area around Gallipoli was systematically settled by the Byzantine rulers by Greeks from Pontus at the end of the 9th century . They celebrated the liturgy according to the Byzantine rite , and so the two rites , the Greek and the Roman, competed with each other in Apulia. "Without the consent of Constantinople not a single Latin bishop of Apulia could climb his cathedra."

In the Byzantine Notitiae episcopatuum the diocese was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Santa Severina as a suffragan , when it was subordinated to Otranto , which had already become an archbishopric in Byzantine times , cannot be clearly determined. The first Latin Archbishop of Otranto, Hugo, has been documented since 1067, but suffragans are only recorded in the Liber censuum towards the end of the 12th century. In the majority of the manuscripts of the Liber censuum there is the note Graecus est (It is Greek) for Gallipoli . At the time of Norman rule , the territory of the diocese of Gallipoli is said to have been much larger than it was later, after it was reduced to an enclave in the then diocese of Nardò .

The Latin bishop Baldricus is attested to around 1115, but whether there were attempts to also introduce the Latin rite in Gallipoli can not be determined from the sources. In any case, his first documented successor, Bishop Theodosius , belonged to the Greek rite around 1172. Theodosius and his successor were involved in a long-standing tithe dispute with the monastery of Santa Maria di Nardò , which the pope-appointed delegate judge under the direction of Archbishop Bertrand von Trani investigated, and who were commissioned by King Wilhelm II to also investigate the case on his behalf to decide because the bishop had relied on forged summons by the royal curia in Palermo to delay the proceedings. Georgios von Gallipoli , author of Greek poetry and probably also an employee of the chancellery of Emperor Frederick II , was chartophylax of the chapter of Gallipoli. Georgios also has the only name of a bishop we know between Theodosius and the 14th century: Pantaleon, of whom we only know that he was in office under Emperor Friedrich II. Even if Latin prelates have been listed in the incomplete lists of bishops since the last third of the 14th century, initially a series of mendicants , the final and complete transition to the Roman rite in the diocese of Gallipoli did not take place until 1513.

In 1126 , a new cathedral was built in place of the old cathedral dedicated to St. John Chrysostom . This is dedicated to Sant'Agata , whose chest relic came to Gallipoli that year. The current church was built between 1629 and 1696, and in 1948 it was elevated to a minor basilica .

In 1759 the seminary was housed in an artistically richly decorated, monumental building that is now the seat of the Gallipoli department of the Diocesan Museum.

On September 30, 1986 the dioceses of Gallipoli and Nardò were united to form the diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli .

See also

literature

  • Walther Holtzmann : Italia Pontificia. Vol. 9: Samnium, Apulia, Lucania. Weidmann, Berlin 1962, pp. 429-432.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Walther Holtzmann: Italia Pontificia, IX: Samnium, Apulia, Lucania. Berlin 1962, p. 428.
  2. ^ Walther Holtzmann: Italia Pontificia, IX: Samnium, Apulia, Lucania. Berlin 1962, pp. 429-430 No. 1-4.
  3. ↑ Yury Georgij Avvakumov: The emergence of the idea of ​​union: The Latin theology of the high Middle Ages in dealing with the rite of the Eastern Church. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003715-6 , p. 57.
  4. ^ Walther Holtzmann: Italia Pontificia, IX: Samnium, Apulia, Lucania. Berlin 1962, p. 409.
  5. ^ Walther Holtzmann: Italia Pontificia, IX: Samnium, Apulia, Lucania. Berlin 1962, p. 428.
  6. ↑ Annick Peters-Custot: Les remaniements de la carte diocésaine de l'Italie grecque lors de la conquête normande . In: Philippe Rodriguez (ed.): Pouvoir et territoire I. (Antiquité-Moyen Âge) . Actes du colloque organisé par le CERHI (Saint-Étienne, 7 and 8 November 2005). tape I . Université de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne 2007, ISBN 978-2-86272-465-2 , pp. 57–78 , here p. 75 with note 76 (French, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 30, 2019]).
  7. ^ Horst Enzensberger : Il documento regio come strumento del potere. In: Potere, società e popolo nell'età dei due Guglielmi. Atti delle quarte Giornate normanno-sveve (Bari - Gioia del Colle, 8-10 October 1979). Bari 1981, pp. 103-138, here p. 107 with note 11, pp. 136-137 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Michael B. Wellas: Georgios of Gallipoli . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 4, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-8904-2 , Sp. 1285 f.
  9. ^ With Konrad Eubel : Hierarchia Catholica medii aevi I: from anno 1198 usque ad annum 1431 perducta. Editio altera. Münster 1913, p. 259, however, Pantaleon is still missing.
  10. ^ Norbert Kamp : Church and Monarchy in the Staufer Kingdom of Sicily. I: Prosopographical foundation: Dioceses and bishops of the Kingdom 1194-1266 , Part II, Munich 1975, p. 728.
  11. ↑ In addition to the volume already mentioned, cf. also Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia Catholica medii aevi II: from anno 1431 usque ad annum 1503 perducta . Editio altera. Münster 1913, p. 157; Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi , vol. III: Saeculum XVI from 1503 complectens , Editio altera quam curavit Ludovicus Schmitz-Kallenberg , Münster 1923, p. 201.
  12. ↑ Horst Enzensberger: Minorites on the bishopric of Apulia (13th – 15th centuries). In: Laurentianum 31, 1990, pp. 441-484, here: p. 467 ( online ).
  13. ^ Walther Holtzmann: Italia Pontificia, IX: Samnium, Apulia, Lucania. Berlin 1962, p. 428.