Roman Catholic Diocese of Dragonara

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dragonara (Latin: Dioecesis Dragonariensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Torremaggiore in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was established as a diocese in 1039.^[1][2] On 21 February 1580, it was suppressed, and its territory and Catholic population were assigned to the Diocese of San Severo. In 1968 Dragonara was established as a titular See.^[2]

History

Bishops

to 1400

• Leo (Leone) (attested 1061)^[3]
• Campo (attested 1071, 1075)^[4]
• Berardo (attested 1100)^[5]
• Nicolo (attested 1179)^[6]
• Giovanni (ca. 1192)^[7]
• [unnamed] (1218)^[8]
• Giovanni (attested in 1236^[9]
• Benedictus (attested in 1283)^[10]
• R[--] (attested in 1298)^[11]
• Benedictus ^[12]
• Pietro (attested in 1318)^[13]
• Simone (attested in 1335)^[14]
• Pietro (1343-)^[15]
• Marinus (8 May 1345- )^[16]
• Bernardo
• Walterus de Copello, O.P. (9 January 1349- )
• Joannes (attested in 1350 in Avignon)^[17]
• Marchisano da Bologna (14 June 1364-1366)^[18]
• Gerardus de Montefusculo, O.Min. (8 November 1367- )^[19]
• Giovanni Pietro de Piperno (21 June 1372 - )^[20]
• Bartholomeus Petri, O.Min. (attested 1382)^[21]
• Jacobus (attested 1392)^[22]
• Francesco Bardi (28 January 1399- )^[23]

since 1400

• Nicolaus Tartagli, O.Cist. (1 Aug 1438 - ? )
• Bartolommeo Tesseri (1449–1452)^[24]
• Benedetto, O.S.A. (23 Jul 1451 Appointed - 1482 Died)

...

• Jacobus Brunus de Severo (20 May 1519 Appointed - 1551 Died)^[25]
• Alfonso de Valdecabras (21 Aug 1551 Appointed - 1554 Resigned)
• Luis Suárez (1 Oct 1554 Appointed - )^[26]

References

1. "Diocese of Dragonara" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
2. "Titular Episcopal See of Dragonara" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
3. Cappelletti, p. 337.
4. Cappelletti, p. 337.
5. Cappelletti, p. 337.
6. Niccolo was present at the Lateran Council of Pope Alexander III in 1179. J. D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio editio novissima Tomus XXII (Venice: Zatta 1778), p. 214. Cappelletti, p. 338.
7. Cappelletti, p. 338.
8. Assigned a mandate by Pope Honorius III. Cappelletti, p. 338.
9. Cappelletti, p. 338. Eubel, I, p. 226.
10. Cappelletti, p. 338. Eubel, I, p. 226.
11. Cappelletti, p. 338. Eubel, I, p. 226.
12. Eubel, I, p. 226.
13. Cappelletti, p. 33. Eubel, I, p. 226.
14. Simon was Chaplain and Councillor of King Robert of Sicily. Cappelletti, p. 338. Eubel, I, p. 226.
15. Pietro was previously Bishop of Monte Marano (1334-1343); he was in Avignon from 1223-1340. Cappelletti, p. 338. Eubel, I, p. 226.
16. Marinus had been Archdeacon of Bojano. Cappelletti, p. 338. Eubel, I, p. 226.
17. Eubel, I, p. 226.
18. Cappelletti, p. 339. Eubel, I, p. 226-227.
19. Eubel, I, p. 227.
20. Eubel, I, p. 226.
21. Eubel, I, p. 226.
22. Eubel, I, p. 226.
23. Bardi was a Florentine. Cappelletti, p. 339, Eubel, I, p. 226.
24. Gams, p. 923.
25. Bruno was Doctor in utroque iure (Civil Law and Canon Law). Eubel, III, p. 187.
26. "Bishop Luis Suárez" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016

Books

• Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1864). Le chiese d'Italia: dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Tomo decimonono (19). Venice: G. Antonelli. pp. 337–340.
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin)
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
• Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo (in Latin). Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz.
• Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06.