Diocese of Lipari-Patti
The Diocese of Lipari-Patti is a former diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Sicily .
history
After the Arab domination , Roger I built the Benedictine Abbey of San Bartolomeo on Lipari in 1084 and the Benedictine monastery of Santissimo Salvatore in Patti in 1094 , which he assigned to San Bartolomeo. Pope Urban II. Had in 1091 the restoration of the already from the register of Gregory the Great known diocese Lipari rejected because of population poverty, but asked the abbey under papal protection. In this document, which has only survived in copy, the Pope refers to the Donation of Constantine . In 1095 the San Bartolomeo Abbey received the entire territory of the Assigned to Aeolian Islands .
At the request of King Roger II , Anaclet II raised the territory of the abbey to the Diocese of Lipari-Patti in 1131 and made it subject to the Archdiocese of Messina . The abbey church of San Bartolomeo in Lipari became the cathedral of the diocese. This establishment by the antipope was initially not recognized by Innocent II and his successors. It was not until Alexander III. 1166 took the official recognition, although the abbots with the title of since 1157 Elect are detectable.
The bishops by no means regularly carried the double title, often only the name episcopus pactensis (Bishop of Patti) is found. They are likely to have resided mainly in Patti, despite a privileged shipping connection to the island of Lipari, which was not very practical even in the Middle Ages when the weather conditions were poor. Bishops like Jacob and Philip had close ties to Frederick II and can often be found in his entourage.
In 1399 the diocese of Pope Boniface IX. divided into two suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Messina.
- The Diocese of Lipari , to which the territory of the Aeolian Islands was assigned, was incorporated into the Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela in 1986 .
- the diocese of Patti , to which the territory on the island of Sicily was assigned, remained a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Messina [-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela].
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Enzensberger , The Latin Church and the Founding of Dioceses in Sicily at the Beginning of Norman Rule , p. 29f. (Rassegna Storica online, 2, 2000) ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF, 152 kB
- ^ Italia Pontificia X, 359 No. 1
- ↑ In the Provinciale Romanum , the address book of the Roman Curia, both names are usually registered, but Patti comes first
