Archdiocese of Otranto
| Archdiocese of Otranto | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Italy |
| Church region | Apulia |
| Ecclesiastical province | Lecce |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Lecce |
| Diocesan bishop | Donato Negro |
| Vicar General | Quintino Gianfreda |
| Episcopal Vicar | Vincenzo Giannachi Marcello Mangia Giuseppe Mengoli |
| surface | 800 km² |
| Parishes | 80 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 193,700 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 191,700 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 99% |
| Diocesan priest | 105 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 22 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,509 |
| Permanent deacons | 5 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 23 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 124 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Italian |
| cathedral | Cattedrale di Maria Santissima Annunziata |
| Website | www.diocesiotranto.it |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Otranto ( lat. : Archidioecesis Hydruntina , ital. : Arcidiocesi di Otranto ) is in Italy situated Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Otranto .
history
According to tradition, the apostle Peter already worked in Otranto, so that a Christian community emerged here in Roman times. The Archdiocese of Otranto was established as the Diocese of Otranto in the 7th century . Pope Constantine I stayed in Otranto for several months on his trip to Constantinople in 709 . In the 11th century the diocese of Otranto was raised to an archdiocese. The dioceses of Castro di Puglia , Ugento , Alessano , Gallipoli and Lecce were subordinated to the Archdiocese of Otranto as suffragan dioceses . In August 1480, then Archbishop Stefano Pendinelli (1451–1480) was killed during the Ottoman Otranto campaign , 800 men who refused to renounce Christianity were executed in the same year.
On June 27, 1818, the Archdiocese of Otranto became the diocese of Castro di Puglia. The Archdiocese of Otranto lost its status as a metropolitan diocese on October 20, 1980 through the Apostolic Constitution Conferentia Episcopalis Apuliae and was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Lecce as a suffragan.
See also
literature
- Walther Holtzmann : Italia Pontificia IX: Samnium - Apulia - Lucania . Berlin 1962, pp. 408-412.
Web links
- Homepage of the Archdiocese of Otranto (Italian)
- Entry on the Archdiocese of Otranto on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ L'Arcidiocesi di Otranto. In: Cenni Storici. Archdiocese of Otranto, accessed on February 24, 2020 (Italian, historical information on the Archdiocese's website).
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II : Const. Apost. Conferentia Episcopalis Apuliae , AAS 72 (1980), n.8, pp. 1076f.
