Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino

Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino
Basic data
Country	Italy
Church region	Apulia
Ecclesiastical province	Foggia-Bovino
Diocesan bishop	Vincenzo Pelvi
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Giuseppe Casale Francesco Pio Tamburrino OSB
Vicar General	Filippo Tardio
founding	September 30, 1986
surface	1,666 km²
Parishes	54 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents	212,470 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics	211,800 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of	99.7%
Diocesan priest	84 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest	62 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest	1,451
Permanent deacons	10 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars	65 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters	129 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Italian
cathedral	Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta in Cielo in Foggia
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta in Bovino
Website	www.diocesifoggiabovino.it
Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Cerignola-Ascoli Satriano Diocese of Lucera-Troia Archdiocese of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo Diocese of San Severo

Development of membership numbers

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino ( lat. : Archidioecesis Fodiana-Bovinensis , ital. : Arcidiocesi di Foggia-Bovino ) is in Italy situated Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Foggia .

history

On June 25, 1855 by Pope Pius IX. the Diocese of Foggia was established from cessions of territory from the Diocese of Troy and placed directly under the Holy See . On September 29, 1933 the Diocese of Foggia was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Benevento as a suffragan by the Consistorial Congregation with the decree Iam pridem .

On April 30, 1979, the Diocese of Foggia was raised to an archdiocese by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Sacrorum Antistites . On September 30, 1986, the Bovino diocese was attached to the Archdiocese of Foggia .

Ordinaries

Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Cielo in Foggia

Santa Maria Assunta co- cathedral in Bovino

Bishops of Foggia

• Bernardino Maria Frascolla , 1856–1869
• Geremia Cosenza OFM , 1872-1882
• Domenico Marinangeli , 1882–1893, then Archbishop of Trani and Barletta
• Carlo Mola CO , 1893-1909
• Salvatore Bella , 1909–1920, then Bishop of Acireale
• Pietro Pomares y de Morant , 1921–1924, then Archbishop of Bari
• Fortunato Maria Farina , 1924–1954
• Giuseppe Amici , 1954–1955, then Bishop of Cesena
• Paolo Carta , 1955–1962, then Archbishop of Sassari
• Giuseppe Lenotti , 1962–1979

Archbishops of Foggia

• Giuseppe Lenotti, 1979-1981
• Salvatore De Giorgi , 1981-1986

Archbishops of Foggia-Bovino

• Salvatore De Giorgi, 1986–1987, then Archbishop of Taranto
• Giuseppe Casale , 1988-1999
• Domenico Umberto D'Ambrosio , 1999–2003, then Archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo
• Francesco Pio Tamburrino OSB , 2003-2014
• Vincenzo Pelvi , since October 11, 2014

See also

• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses
• Roman Catholic Church in Italy

Web links

Commons : Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Homepage of the Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino (Italian)
• Entry on Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sacra Congregatio Consistorialis: Decretum Iam pridem , AAS 25 (1933), n. 16, p. 466f.
2. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Sacrorum Antistites , AAS 71 (1979), n.8, p. 563f.