List of the Bishops of Bitonto

The following people were bishops of Bitonto ( Italy ):

Andreone or Andreano (around 743)
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Johannes / Johannocarus (1176 -1180?)
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Dominicus (1240–1252, probably in exile from 1243)
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Pancratius from Rocca di Papa, OP (1253–1258, in exile 1255–1258)
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Teodorico Borgognoni , OP (1262–1266, in exile), becomes Bishop of Cervia
Bernhard Caracciolo (1266-1280)
Pardus (1280)
Leucius Corasius (1283–?)
John of Ostuni (1317 -?)
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Stephen (1346, † 1348)
Robertus (1348)
Jacobus Falconieri (1348–1373), previously Bishop of Aquino
Blasius Dominici (1373-1380)
Avignon obedience:
- Petrus de Valle OESA (1380–1384), previously Bishop of Lavello, becomes Archbishop of Tire
- Nicolaus de Guiscardis (1384-1414?)
Roman obedience:
- Enrico Minutoli (1382-1383)
- Jacobus (1383)
- John (1391-1399)
- Antonius, OFM (1399–1423), was Bishop of Bitetto
Paulus Alfatati (1424-1457), was Bishop of Polignano
Antonio di Reggio, OP (1457-1472)
Andreas Poltroni (1472–1484) becomes Bishop of Sutri
Giovanni Battista Pontini (1484–1500) was Bishop of Sutri
- Giovanni Battista Orsini Senior (1500–1501) ( Apostolic Administrator )
Giovanni Battista Orsini Junior (1501–1517), nephew of the previous one
- Giulio de 'Medici (February to November 1517) (Apostolic Administrator)
Giacomo Orsini (1517-1530)
- Alessandro Farnese (1530–1532) (Apostolic Administrator)
Lopez Alarcón (1532-1537)
- Alessandro Farnese (1537–1538) (Apostolic Administrator)
Sebastiano Deli di Castel Durante (1538–1544)
- Alessandro Farnese (1544) (Apostolic Administrator)
Cornelio Musso , OFM Conv. (1544–1574)
Giovanni Pietro Fortiguerra (1574–1593)
Flaminio Parisio (1593–1603)
Girolamo Bernardino Pallantieri, OFM (1603–1619)
Giovanni Battista Stella (1619-1622)
Fabrizio Carafa (1622-1651)
Alessandro Crescenzi , CRS (1652–1668)
Tommaso Acquaviva d'Aragona, OP (1668–1672)
Francesco Antonio Gallo (1672–1685)
Filippo Massarenghi, CO (1686–1688)
Carlo de Ferrari (1689-1700)
Giovanni Battista Capano, CR (1700-1720)
Domenico Maria Cedronio, OP (1720–1722)
Luca Antonio della Gatta (1722–1737) (also Bishop of Melfi)
Giovanni Barba (1737–1749)
Nicola Ferri (1750–1770) (also Bishop of Ascoli Satriano)
Orazio Berarducci (1770–1801)
Sedis vacancy (1801-1819)
Vincenzo Maria Manieri, OFM Conv. (1819-1834)
Sedis vacancy (1834–1838)
Nicola Marone (1838-1853)
Vincenzo Materozzi (1853-1884)
Luigi Bruno (1884-1893)
Tommaso de Stefano (1893–1898) (also Archbishop of Trani and Barletta)
Pasquale Berardi (1898–1921) (also Archbishop of Gaeta)
Placido Ferniani (1922-1925)
Domenico Del Buono (1925-1929)
Andrea Taccone (1929-1949)
- Marcello Mimmi (1949–1950) (Apostolic Administrator)
Aurelio Marena (1950–1978)
- Salvatore Isgrò (1978–1981) (Apostolic Administrator)
- Aldo Garzia (1981–1982) (Apostolic Administrator)
Andrea Mariano Magrassi, OSB (1982–1986) (also Archbishop of Bari)

To be continued under List of Archbishops of Bari

literature

Norbert Kamp : Church and monarchy in the Staufer Kingdom of Sicily. I: Prosopographical foundation: Dioceses and bishops of the Kingdom 1194–1266 , Part II [Münstersche Medieval Writings, 10.I, 2], Munich 1975, pp. 608–618
Konrad Eubel : Hierarchia Catholica medii aevi I: from anno 1198 usque ad annum 1431 perducta . Editio altera. Münster 1913, pp. 142-143
Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia Catholica medii aevi II: from anno 1431 usque ad annum 1503 perducta . Editio altera. Münster 1913, p. 109
Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi , vol. III: Saeculum XVI from 1503 complectens , Editio altera quam curavit Ludovicus Schmitz-Kallenberg , Münster 1923, p. 138.
Konrad Eubel - Patrice Gauchat: Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi , vol. IV: a pontificatu Clementis pp. VIII (1592) usque ad pontificatum Alexandri pp. VII (1667) , Münster 1935, p. 114.

Remarks

↑ No evidence in the more recent scientific literature
↑ Bishops have been attested in the meantime, but no names are given
↑ At the time of his appointment he was prior of the Dominican convent in Anagni. This is noted in Eubel, in Kamp p. 610f. he is called frater Pancratius de Rocca Domini Papae , the original name Anagni was invented in the local tradition of the 18th century.
↑ From 1258 to 1266 an unidentified follower of Manfred resided in Bitonto, cf. Kamp: Church and Monarchy p. 612f.
↑ There are no Vatican sources for him
↑ In 1300 he is quoted by Boniface VIII. To the curia; Eubel, Hierarchia p. 142 with note 3

[1] No evidence in the more recent scientific literature

[2] Bishops have been attested in the meantime, but no names are given

[3] At the time of his appointment he was prior of the Dominican convent in Anagni. This is noted in Eubel, in Kamp p. 610f. he is called frater Pancratius de Rocca Domini Papae , the original name Anagni was invented in the local tradition of the 18th century.

[4] From 1258 to 1266 an unidentified follower of Manfred resided in Bitonto, cf. Kamp: Church and Monarchy p. 612f.

[5] There are no Vatican sources for him

[6] In 1300 he is quoted by Boniface VIII. To the curia; Eubel, Hierarchia p. 142 with note 3