Diocese of Kefalonia

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The former Roman Catholic diocese of Kefalonia (also Diocese of Cefalonia , Latin Dioecesis Cephaloniensis ', Greek Λατινική Επισκοπή Κεφαλληνίας , Italian Episcopato Latino di Cefalonia ) was founded in 1207 as a split from the Patra, which was founded in 1205. With the decision of the Pope on March 12, 1222, the diocese of Zakynthos , founded in 1212, was attached to this. Thus the new diocese of Kefalonia encompassed the entire area of ​​the Palatinate Counties of Kefalonia and Zakynthos (this came into being after the Fourth Crusade as a dependent state of the Kingdom of Naples and later the Republic of Venice ). Benedictus became the first Roman Catholic bishop in 1207, while his Orthodox colleague at that time was Naupaktos.

Francis of Assisi founded a monastery on Kefalonia , which became Orthodox in the 16th century, but has only survived as a ruin since the earthquake of 1953 . After Francis' hometown it is called Sissia (Greek Μονή Σισσίων ).

The diocese was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Corfu . In 1866 it comprised 7,000–8,000 believers out of a total population of 100,000 and had its seat in a castle north of Lixouri . It existed for about 700 years before it was incorporated into the Archdiocese of Corfu on June 3, 1919, like the Diocese of Zante (Greek Zakynthos ). Today the Catholic Church of St. Nicholas on the pedestrian zone in Argostoli is still used regularly.

See also

literature

  • Θησεύς Στ. Τζαννετάτος (Ed.): Το πρακτικόν της Λατινικής Επισκοπής Κεφαλληνίας του 1264 και η επιτομή αυτού. sn, Athens 1965.
  • Giorgio Fedalto: La Chiesa Latina in Oriente. Vol.II. Hierarchia Latina Orientis , Mazziana, Verona, 1976, pp. 71–74 with a list of the bishops up to the end of Venetian rule in 1797.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Apostolos Kouroupakis, Christopher David Schabel: Bishop Benedetto of Cephalonia, 1207 – post 1239 . In: Mediterranean Historical Review . tape 32 , no. 2 , 2017, p. 139–152 , doi : 10.1080 / 09518967.2017.1396768 .
  2. ^ Nikos A. Bees: Byzantine-Neo-Greek yearbooks, international scientific organ. Volume 3, 1922, p. 165
  3. ^ Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la théologie catholique. P. 613 (available online at Google books)