Diocese of Ravello

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Bell tower of the cathedral, woodcut from 1860

The diocese of Ravello was a Roman Catholic diocese in Ravello on the Sorrentine peninsula , which was established towards the end of the 11th century, united with the diocese of Scala in 1603 and abolished in 1818.

As a complementary measure in the dispute with the Ducat Amalfi , Duke Roger Borsa of Puglia reached out to Pope Viktor III. 1087 the appointment of a bishop in Ravello and thus the establishment of a diocese that was not subordinate to the nearby Archdiocese of Amalfi , but directly to the Holy See. In 1090 Urban II confirmed this legal status and also successors like Paschalis II. 1101, Hadrian IV. 1157, Lucius III. 1182 or Clemens III. 1188 saw no reason to change. Therefore, in the Liber censuum of the papal chamberlain Cencius , Ravello is among the dioceses directly subordinate to the Pope.

In the city there was a nunnery ( S. Trinitatis ) since the middle of the 10th century , around 1096 the male monastery of San Trifone was first recorded. The diocese also had free float, especially in Apulia , which was donated by merchants from Ravello. In the papal tithe survey 1308-1310, 66 gold ounces were recorded as income , for the servitient tax the papal chamber estimated 130 florins as income of the diocese.

The first bishops all came from the patriciate of the city. Bishop Peter (1231–1269) was consecrated at the imperial court in Melfi in the summer of 1231 , and from 1237 to 1239 he was a member of the Regency Council that ruled the Kingdom of Sicily during the absence of Frederick II . He also had a good relationship with Innocent IV and after the turnaround in 1255–56 he was one of Manfred's followers . Under Karl von Anjou he no longer emerged.

In 1969 it was revived as a titular bishopric .

literature

  • Paul Fridolin Kehr : Italia Pontificia VIII: Regnum Normannorum - Campania . Berlin 1935, pp. 401-405
  • Norbert Kamp , Church and Monarchy in the Staufer Kingdom of Sicily. I: Prosopographical foundation: Dioceses and bishops of the Kingdom 1194-1266 , Part I: Abruzzo and Campania [Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften, 10.I, 1], Munich 1973, pp. 88-96

Remarks

  1. ↑ Kamp, Church and Monarchy , pp. 93–96.