Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova

Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova Archidioecesis Rheginensis-Bovensis
Reggio Calabria Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Reggio Calabria-Bova
Statistics
Area	1,004 km^2 (388 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 282,240 278,500 (98.7%)
Parishes	119
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1st century
Cathedral	Basilica Cattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta in Cielo (Reggio Calabria)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale della Presentazione della Beata Vergine Maria (Bova)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Sede vacante
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The Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova (Latin: Archidioecesis Rheginensis-Bovensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Calabria, southern Italy.^[1] It was created in 1986, when historic Archdiocese of Reggio was combined with the Diocese of Bova.^[2][3]

History

Through a misinterpretation of Acts 27:13, St. Paul was said to have preached the Gospel at Reggio Calabria, and to have consecrated his companion, St. Stephen, bishop. The first bishop known is Mark, legate of Pope Sylvester at the Council of Nicaea (325).

When all Southern Italy was united to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Reggio became a metropolitan see with thirteen suffragans, and followed the Greek Rite, which was changed to the Gallican Rite after the Norman Conquest; Archbishop Ricciulli adopted the Roman Rite in 1580. The Greek Rite, however, remained in force in the church of Santissima Maria della Cattolica, built by King Roger, and governed by a protopope with a numerous Greek clergy. Questions of jurisdiction caused frequent controversies with the archbishop. About 1600 Archbishop Annibale degli Afflitti suppressed the Greek Rite in that church, and the entire diocese now follows the Roman Rite.

List of bishops

• St. Sisinnius (536), mentioned in the Acts of St. Placidus;
• John, legate of Pope Agathus at the Sixth Council (680);
• St. Cyrillus (749);
• Leontius, follower of Photius (869);
• St. Eusebius (d. 916).
• Rangerio (1192);
• Fra Gentile (1279), Franciscan;
• Pietro Filomarino (1404);
• Matteo Ricci (1453), restorer of the cathedral;
• Gerolamo Centelles (1529), reformer of ecclesiastical discipline;
• Gaspare Ricciulli (1560), at the Council of Trent, rebuilt the cathedral which had been destroyed by the Turks;
• Mariano Ricciardi (1855–71), exiled after the annexation of the Kingdom of Naples;
• Cardinal Gennaro Portanova (1888).^[2]
• Carmelo Pujia (1927-1937)

Bishops

• Bonifatius (593–)

...

• Vernaccio (1252–)

...

• Pierre, O.S.A. (1321–1328 Died)

...

• Pietro Filomarini (1404–1420 Died)
• Bartolomeo Gattola (1421–1426 Appointed, Archbishop of Messina)
• Gaspare Colonna (1426–1429 Appointed, Archbishop of Benevento)
• Paolo di Segni (1429–1437 Resigned)
• Guglielmo Logoteta (1440–1449 Died)
• Angelo de Grassis (1449–1453 Died)
• Matteo Ricci (archbishop) (1453–1488 Died)

...

• Marco Miroldi, O.P. (1491–1495 Died)
• Pietro Isvales (1497–24 Jul 1506 Resigned)
• Francesco Isvales (1506–1512 Died)
• Roberto Latino Orsini (1512–1520 Resigned)
• Agostino Trivulzio (1520–1520 Resigned)
• Pietro Trivulzio (1520–1523 Died)
• Agostino Trivulzio (1523–1529 Resigned)
• Girolamo Centelles (1529–1535 Resigned)
• Agostino Gonzaga (1537–1557 Died)
• Gaspare Ricciullo del Fosso, O.M. (1560–1592 Died)^[4][5]
• Annibale D'Afflitto (1593–1638 Died)
• Gaspar de Creales Arce (1644–1658 Died)
• Matteo di Génnaro (1660–1674 Died)
• Martín Ibáñez y Villanueva, O.SS.T. (1675–1695 Died)
• Giovanni Andrea Monreale (1696–1726 Died)
• Domingo (Damiano) Polou (1727–1756 Died)
• Domenico Zicari (1757–1760 Died)
• Matteo Gennaro Testa Piccolomini (1761–1766 Resigned)
• Alberto Maria (Leonardo Antonio Pasquale) Capobianco, O.P. (1767–1792 Resigned)
• Giuseppe Maria Cenicela, O.F.M. Disc. (1797–1814 Died)
• Alessandro Tommasini (1818–1826 Died)
• Emanuele Maria Bellorado, O.P. (1828–1829 Confirmed, Bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti)
• Leone Ciampa, O.F.M. Disc. (1829–1836 Confirmed, Archbishop of Conza e Campagna)
• Pietro di Benedetto (1836–1855 Died)
• Mariano Ricciardi (1855–1871 Appointed, Archbishop of Sorrento)
• Francesco Saverio Basile (1871–1871 Died)
• Francesco Converti, O.F.M. (1872–1888 Resigned)
• Gennaro Portanova (1888–1908 Died)
• Rinaldo Camillo Rousset, O.C.D. (1909–1926 Died)
• Carmelo Pujia (1927–1937 Died)
• Enrico Montalbetti, Obs. S.C. (1938–1943 Died)
• Antonio Lanza (1943–1950 Died)
• Giovanni Ferro, C.R.S. (1950–1977 Retired)
• Aureliano Sorrentino (1977–1990 Retired)
• Vittorio Luigi Mondello (1990–2013 Retired)
• Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, O.M. (2013–)

References

1. Reggio di Calabria - Catholic Encyclopedia article
2. "Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 7, 2016
3. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria–Bova" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved October 7, 2016
4. "Archbishop Gaspare Ricciullo del Fosso, O.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 17, 2016
5. "Archbishop Gaspare Ricciullo Del Fosso, O.M." GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved October 7, 2016

Bibliography

Reference works

• Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. p. 926-917. (Use with caution; obsolete)
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 418. (in Latin)
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 222.
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. pp. 284.
• Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 294.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 332.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 356.

acknowledgments

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "^{article name needed}". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.

External links

• Metropolitan Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova

Coordinates: 38°06′29″N 15°38′40″E / 38.10806°N 15.64444°E