List of the bishops of Bova
The diocese of Bova is mentioned in the 11th and 12th centuries in the Notitiae episcopatuum together with Oppido and Tres Tabernae (later Catanzaro ) as a suffragan of Reggio Calabria . Bova belonged to the Greek rite until 1573, so the bishops were usually members of the Greek language group.
The following people were bishops of Bova ( Italy ):
- 1094-1125? Luke , presumably also responsible as bishop for the Greek faithful of the Archdiocese of Reggio
- 1222 Stephen
- 1227 Arsenius
- 1269 A.?
- 1291-1298 Cyprianus
- 1305 Luke II.
- 1341 Blasius
- 1342 Nicholas
- 1343 Andrew
- 1357 Nicodemus
- 1364 Basilios
- 1364 Erasmus
- 1372 Wilhelm
- 1405 Stephan
- 1410-1414 Walter
- 1414–1424 Peter von Bova
- 1424–1425 Matteo della Scaglia from Agrigento OESA
- 1425-1435 Filippo Castelfario
- 1435 Agostino Campello OESA
- 1435–1441 Sancius, Bishop of Minervino
- 1441–1483 Jacob from Seminara
- 1483-1523 Proculo Correale
- 1523 Cardinal Francesco Orsini
- 1524 Donato Correale
- 1546–1570 Achille Branda
- 1571–1577 Giulio Stauriano OP
- 1577–1586 Marcelle Franco
- 1587–1592 Tolomeo Corsini
- 1592-1622 Giovanni Camerota
- 1627–1646 Fabio Olivadisio
- 1646–1656 Martino Megale di S. Severina
- 1657–1669 Bernardino Aragona
- 1669–1699 Marcantonio Contestabile
- 1699-1714 Antonio Gaudiosi di S. Marco
- 1778–1729 Paolo Stabile
- 1729–1731 Giuseppe Barone
- 1731-1735 Tommaso Mellina
- 1735–1752 Domenico Marzano
- 1752–1764 Stefano Morabito
- 1764–1791 Antonio Spedalieri
- 1792–1802 Giuseppe Martini
- 1818–1824 Nicola Maria Laudisio
- 1824–1830 Giovanni Cordone
- 1832–1834 Giuseppe Maria Giove
- 1835–1849 Vincenzo Rozzolino
- 1849-1850 Pasquale Taccone
- 1851-1856 Raffaele Ferrigno Napolitano
- 1856–1870 Dalmazio D'Andrea dei
- 1871–1877 Antonio Piterà
- 1877-1895 Nicola De Simone
- 1895–1899 Raffaele Rossi
- 1900–1914 Domenico Pugliatti
- 1915–1921 Paolo Albera
- 1922–1929 Andrea Taccone (also Bishop of Ruvo and Bitonto)
- 1929-1933 Carmelo Pujia
- 1933-1939 Giuseppe Cognata, SDB
- 1940–1943 Enrico Montalbetti
- 1943–1950 Antonio Lanza
- 1950-1960 Giovanni Ferro , CRS
- 1960–1962 Giuseppe Lenotti (also Bishop of Foggia)
- 1962–1966 Aurelio Sorrentino (also Bishop of Potenza)
- 1973–1977 Giovanni Ferro, CRS one more time
- 1977–1986 Aurelio Sorrentino (also Archbishop of Reggio Calabria)
Continuation under List of Archbishops of Reggio Calabria
literature
- Italia Pontificia sive Repertorium privilegiorum et litterarum a Romanis pontificibus ante annum MCLXXXXVIII Italiae ecclesiis, monasteriis, civitatibus singulisque personis concessorum, t. X: Calabria - Insulae , ed. Dieter Girgensohn , Zurich 1975, pp. 49-50
- 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. 937–938.