Diocese of Ales-Terralba

Not to be confused with Roman Catholic Diocese of Alet.
Diocese of Ales-Terralba

Dioecesis Uxellensis-Terralbensis
Ales Cathedral
Location
CountryItaly
Ecclesiastical provinceOristano
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Oristano
Statistics
Area1,494 km2 (577 sq mi)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2023)
  • 88,868 Decrease
  • 88,413 Decrease
Parishes57
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
RiteRoman Rite
CathedralCattedrale di Ss. Pietro e Paolo (Ales)
Co-cathedralConcattedrale di S. Pietro Apostolo (Terralba)
Secular priests57 (diocesan) Decrease
7 (Religious Orders)
5 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
PopeLeo XIV
BishopRoberto Carboni, O.F.M. Conv.
Bishops emeritusGiovanni Dettori
Website
www.diocesialesterralba.va.it
Diocesan web site (in Italian)

The Diocese of Ales-Terralba (Latin: Dioecesis Uxellensis-Terralbensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in west-central Sardinia. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Oristano (Arborea).[1] Ales lies at a distance of 31 km from Oristano in a direct line.

History

It is claimed that Pope Gregory I[2] (590–604) alludes to the episcopal see of Ales (anciently Uselli), in his letter to Januarius of Cagliari in 591.[3] This assertion is now rejected.[4]

After this there is no reference to a diocese of Ales until 1147, when the name of Bishop Maurellu appears in a diploma.[5] The manuscript actually reads: Pelius Episcopus Dusselieanas.[6]

When the seat of the bishop was still in Usellus, the church of SS Giusta, Giustina and Enedina[7] When the seat moved to Ales, eight km to the southwest, the church of S. Pietro became the cathedral.[8] The cathedral was served and administered by a corporation called the Chapter, consisting of a Dean and eighteen Canons.[9]

The climate of Ales and Usellus was so inhospitable that the bishops would spend the summer and autumn in Cagliari.[10]

The diocese of Terralba has no memory of bishops before the 12th century.[11] The local traditions of Terralba record a Bishop Mariano, who erected the cathedral about 1144.[12] The diocese occurs in the Liber Censuum of the late 12th century.[13]

Union of dioceses

In the second half of the 15th century, several dioceses on the island of Sardinia were in difficulties due to financial shortages, as well as the movements of peoples. After extensive consultations had taken place between King Ferdinand of Aragon and Sardinia, Isabella I of Castile, and Pope Alexander VI, and after discussions with members of the College of Cardinals (including Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere) and other interested parties,[14] plans were advanced to consolidate the troubled dioceses. Alexander VI died, however, before the decisions were announced or implemented. After additional consultations, Pope Julius II, on 8 December 1503, in the bull "Aequum Reputamus," united the diocese of Ales and Terralba.[15]

Pope Clement VII granted the Emperor Charles V the privilege of nominating candiddates to vacant archbishoprics, bishoprics and cardinalatial monasteries in the kingdom of Sardinia in 1533. The grant was for the emperor's lifetime. Pope Sixtus V renewed the grant to Charles' son, King Philip II of Spain in 1586. Pope Paul V granted it to King Philip III of Spain and his successors in 1609.[16]

Bishop Francesco Masones y Nin (1693–1704) conducted a diocesan synod in 1696.[17]

Populations

The population of Ales in 1692 was around 1,000 persons.[18] In 1761, it was reckoned at around 2,000.[19] In 1820, the village of Ales had a population of 749, and the village of Terralba a population of 3,040.[20] In 1920, there were reported to be 59,530 Catholics in the entire diocese, organized into 42 parishes.[21] In 2017, the inhabitants of Ales were numbered at 1,410 by the National Institute of Statistics; the comune of Terralba had a population of 10,201.

Contemporary arrangement

The Bishop of Ales-Terralba, Roberto Carboni, O.F.M. Conv., was promoted on 4 May 2019 to be Archbishop of Oristano and on the same date was appointed Apostolic Administrator of his former diocese of Ales-Terralba.[22] However, on 3 July 2021, without losing his position as Archbishop of Oristano, he was reappointed Bishop of Ales-Terralba. The announcement specifies that this act unifies the two dioceses in persona Episcopi ('in the person of the Bishop').[23]

Bishops

Diocese of Ales

...
  • (c. 1147) : Maurellu[24]
  • (c. 1182) : Comita Pais[25]
...
  • (c. 1234–1237) : Joannes Marras[26]
  • (c. 1312–1320) : Robertus Drago, O.P.
  • ( ? – ? ) : Joannes
  • (1330–1367) : Joannes de Vieri[27]
  • (1367–1373) : Jacobus[28]
  • (c. 1396) : Christophorus, Roman Obedience
  • ( ? – ? ) : Gometius, Roman Obedience
  • (1396–1402) : Antonius, Roman Obedience
  • (1402–1403) : Jacobus, Roman Obedience
  • (1412–1413) : Petrus, Avignon Obedience
  • (1413–1418) : Petrus Spinola, O.S.B., Pisan Obedience
  • (1418–1421) : Bernardus Rubei, O.F.M.
  • (1421–1425) : Joannes de Campo(longo), O.Carm.
  • (1425–1439) : Jacobus de Villanova, O.F.M.
  • (1439–1444) : Joannes Garsiae, O.P.
  • (1444–1454) : Bernardus Michaelis, O.P.
  • (1454–1463) : Antonius de Bich
  • (1463–1484) : Joannes de la Bona
  • (1484–1490) : Pedro Garcia[29]
  • (1493–1506) : Juan Crespo, O.S.A.[30]

Diocese of Terralba

  • (c. 1144) : Marianus[31]
  • (c. 1146) : Ildebrandinus[32]
  • (c. 1182–1206) Marianus Zorrachi
  • (c. 1210–1224) : Torgodorius de Muro[33]
  • (c. 1228–1248) : Guantinus de Scuro[34]
  • (c. 1299/1300) : Furatus[35]
  • (1300–1302) : Oddo Sala, O.P.[36]
  • (1302–1329) : Robertus Vacca, O.Min.[37]
  • (1329–1332) : Martinus, O.E.S.A.[38]
  • (1332–1356) : Joannes Rubei, O.Carm.[39]
  • (1356–1364) : Guglielmo d'Aragona[40]
  • (1364–1389) : Joannes[41]
(1378– ? ) : Francesco Passarino, Roman Obedience
(c. 1386) : Fennis, Roman Obedience
(1409–1411?) Francesco, Roman Obedience
(1411–1412) : Francesco di Roma, O.E.S.A.,
     Pisan-Roman Obedience[42]
  • (1389–1412) : Pietro Ferrari, O.F.M., Avignon Obedience
  • (1412–1419) : Guglielmo, Avignon Obedience
  • (1419–1425) : Matteo Serra, O.P.
  • (1425–1436) : Dominicus Joannis, O.P.
  • (1436–1443) : Jacobus Fortesa
  • (1443–1444) : Joannes de Aranda, O.E.S.A.
  • (1475–1484) : Joannes Pellis
  • (1484–1503) : Joannes Orient, O.F.M.
(1503–1507) : Sede vacante

Diocese of Ales e Terralba

Diocese of Ales united with Diocese of Terralba: 8 December 1503

From 1507 to 1704

From 1704 to present

  • (1704–1724) : Isidoro Masones y Nin[57]
  • (1727–1728) : Salvatore Ruyu[58]
  • (1728–1736) : Giovanni Battista Sanna[59]
  • (1736–1760) : Antonio Giuseppe Carcassona[60]
  • (1761–1786) : Giuseppe Maria Pilo, O. Carm.[61]
  • (1788–1806) : Michele Antonio Aymerich de Villamar[62]
  • (1819–1822) : Giuseppe Stanislao Paradiso[63]
  • (1828–1837) : Antonio Raimondo Tore[64]
  • (1842–1866) : Pietro Vargiù (22 Jul 1842 – 3 Aug 1866)
  • (1867–1893) : Francesco Zunnui Casula[65]
  • (1893–1906) :Palmerio Garau (12 Jun 1893 – 27 Mar 1906)
(1906–1910) : Sede vacante[66]

References and notes

  1. ^ Catholic Hierarchy: "Diocese of Ales-Terralba" retrieved January 30, 2016
  2. ^ In a letter of August 591 (Regestum I, 77) to Bishop Martinus in Corsica, Pope Gregory mentions a long-vacant see called "ecclesiam Alirensem", and another called "ecclesia Tainatis." Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Epistolae Vol. 1 (Berlin: Weidmann 1891), pp. 96-97.
  3. ^ Mattei, p. 266, records the rejection of a "Cassianus," who was actually bishop of Usalensis in Byzacena (Africa proconsularis). He conjectures two other names, however: Vincentius and Agatho.
  4. ^ e.g. by Gams, p. 831; Lanzoni (per silentium); Kehr, p. 458. Enciclopedia della Sardegna I, p. 100.
  5. ^ Kehr, p. 458: "Episcopi Usellenses inde a saec. XII med. inveniuntur; primus, quem novimus, Murrellu sive Maurellus ep. ecclesiae s. Mariae de Bonarcatu consecrationi interfuit."
  6. ^ Mattei, p. 267, col. 1. Giovanni Benedetto Mittarelli & Anselmo Costadoni, Annales Camaldulenses ordinis Sancti Benedicti, (in Latin) Volume 3 (Venice: Pasquali 1758), p. 299, no xxxii: "Testes hujus donationis fuere Comes de Laccone archiepiscopus Oristanensis, Paucapelea episcopus sanctæ Justæ, Ildibrandinus episcopus Terralbæ, Relius episcopus Duffelitanus, Ajus archiepscopus Turritanus, Marianus Telle episcopus Gisarchensis, qui etiam interfuere dedicationi præfatæ ecclesiæ ."
  7. ^ Francesco Lanzoni (1927). Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604) (in Italian). Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. pp. 672-673. served as the cathedral.
  8. ^ Cappelletti, p. 251.
  9. ^ Mattei, p. 265, column 2.
  10. ^ Cappelletti, p. 251.
  11. ^ Kehr, p. 457: "Huius ecclesiae praesules non prius quam saec. XII med. occurrunt."
  12. ^ Mattei, p. 260.
  13. ^ Kehr, p. 457. Paul Fabre, Le Liber Censuum de l' Eglise romaine (in Latin and French), Paris: E. Thorin 1889), p. 237.
  14. ^ Julius II, "Aequum Reputamus" (p. 168, col. 2: "volens charissimi in Christo filii nostri, tunc sui, Ferdinandi regis et clarissimae in christo filiae nostrae, tunc suae, Elisabethae Regum Hispaniarum, et Sardiniae illustrium , id summopere, prout eidem Praedecessori nostro per eorum litteras significaverunt, desiderantium, votis annuere; habita super iis cum eisdem Fratribus suis deliberatione matura, et de ipsorum consilio...."
  15. ^ Pasquale Tola, Codex diplomaticus Sardiniae (in Latin) Vol. 2 (Turin: e regio typographeo 1868) [Historiae patriae monvmenta, Volume 17], pp. 168-170, with note 3: "...Calaritanae Dolien., et Turritanae Sorren., et Plovacen., necnon Arborensi Sanctae Justae, et Othanensi Bisarquien., et Castren., nec non Usellensi Terralben. Ecclesias, ac eisdem de Alguer, et Ampuriensi de Castel Genoves Parrocchiales, ac Monasteria, nec non Sulcitanen. Ecclesiis Canonicatus ac Praebendas hujusmodi cum annexis, et omnibus juribus et pertinentiis suis authoritate Apostolica sub datum videlicet pridie Idus aprilis, Pontificatus sui anno decimo, perpetuo univit, annexit, et incorporavit." Martini, Storia ecclesiaastica di Sardegna II (1840), pp. 219-220. Buonaiutti, p. p. 283.
  16. ^ Martini II, p. 245.
  17. ^ Ibba, pp. 71-72.
  18. ^ Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 401, note 1.
  19. ^ Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 428, note 1.
  20. ^ Ibba, p. 95, Tavola 9.
  21. ^ Buonaiutti, p. p. 283.
  22. ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 04.05.2019" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 4 May 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  23. ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 03.07.2021" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 Oct 2021.
  24. ^ Maurellus (Pellus): Mattei III, pp. 266-267.
  25. ^ Mattei, p. 267. Cappelletti, p. 252.
  26. ^ Cappelletti, p. 252. Gams, p. 831, col. 1. Eubel I, p. 510.
  27. ^ A reservation on the appointment of a successor to Bishop John had been placed by Pope John XXII. Joannes de Vieri had been a priest of the diocese of Galtelli. He was appointed bishop of Ales by Pope John XXII on 27 June 1330. G. Mollat, Jean XXII: Lewttres communes (in Latin) Vol. 10 (Paris: E. de Boccard 1929), p. 387, no. 50382. Eubel I, p. 510.
  28. ^ Jacobus had been archpriest of Arborea (Oristano). Eubel I, p. 510.
  29. ^ Garcia was appointed on 21 July 1484. On 14 June 1490, he was appointed, Bishop of Barcelona Catholic Hierarchy: "Bishop Pedro Garcia" retrieved January 30, 2016
  30. ^ (2 Oct 1493–1506)
  31. ^ Marianus: Cappelletti, p. 257.
  32. ^ Mittarelli & Costadoni, Annales Camaldulenses ordinis Sancti Benedicti, Volume 3, p. 299, no xxxii: "Testes hujus donationis fuere Comes de Laccone archiepiscopus Oristanensis, Paucapelea episcopus sanctæ Justæ, Ildibrandinus episcopus Terralbæ, Relius episcopus Duffelitanus, Ajus archiepscopus Turritanus, Marianus Telle episcopus Gisarchensis, qui etiam interfuere dedicationi præfatæ ecclesiæ ."
  33. ^ Torgodorius was named archbishop of Arborea (Oristano) on 30 October 1224. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, pp. 101, 479.
  34. ^ Constantinus: Mattei, pp. 260-261.
  35. ^ Furatus is mentioned as the deceased bishop of Terralba in the appointment bull of Bishop Oddo Sala. Following his death, the Chapter appointed a committee to exercise the Way of Compromise. The committee chose Canon Mariano de Ruo of Arborea, but he was rejected by the pope. Georges Digard, Les registres de Boniface VIII (in Latin) Vol. 2 (Paris: Ernest Thorin 1890), p. 647, no. 3486.
  36. ^ Oddo was appointed by Pope Boniface VIII on 14 March 1300. He was transferred to the mainland diocese of Pola (Istria) on 7 February 1302. He became archbishop of Arborea (Oristano, Sardinia) on 30 March 1308, and archbishop of Pisa on 10 May 1312. Cappelletti, p. 258. Eubel I, pp. 101, 400, 404, 479. Georges Digard, Les registres de Boniface VIII (in Latin) Vol. 2 (Paris: Ernest Thorin 1890), p. 647, no. 3486.
  37. ^ Robertus died at the papal court in Avignon in 1329. Mattei, p. 261. Cappelletti, p. 258. Georges Digard, Les registres de Boniface VIII (in Latin) Parts 9-13 (Paris: A. Fontemoing 1907), p. 541, no. 4781. Eubel I, p. 479.
  38. ^ Martinus had been Prior of the Priory of S. Luca (Iglesias, Diocese of Sulci Sardinia). He was appointed bishop of Terralba on 20 October 1329, by Pope John XXII, because of the reservation caused by the death of Bishop Robert at the papal court. Georges Mollat, Jean XXII. Lettres communes (in Latin) Vol. 9 (Paris: E. de Boccard 1929), p. 55, no.47034.
  39. ^ Pope John XXII had placed a reservation on the appointment of the next bishop of Terralba. Following the death of Bishop Martin, Giovanni Rossi, who held the degree of master of theology, was appointed by Pope John XXII on 6 April 1332. Mattei, pp. 261-262. G. Mollat, Jean XXII: Lettres communes Vol. 11 (Paris: E. de Boccard), p. 168, no. 56831. Eubel I, p. 479.
  40. ^ Mattei, p. 262.
  41. ^ Joannes had been Bishop of Bisaccia. He was transferred to Terralba by Pope Urban V on 13 September 1364. He appears to have chosen against Urban VI in the Western Schism, following the king of Aragon and Sardinia. Urban attempted to replace Joannes with Francesco Pasarino on 25 October 1378. Eubel I, p. 479.
  42. ^ Franciscus de Roma was appointed by John XXIII on 5 October 1411. Mattei, p. 262. Eubel I, p. 479.
  43. ^ Sanna was appointed by Pope Julius II on 27 January 1507. He did not attend the Fifth Lateran Council, but was represented by his procurator, Canon Andrea Sanna of Ales. He was transferred to the archdiocese of Torres (sassari) on 23 January 1516, but allowed to retain Ales e Terralba until May 1521. in May 1521. Mattei, pp. 270-271. Cappelletti, pp. 254-255. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica III, p. 324.
  44. ^ Andrea was appointed on 10 May 1521, by Pope Leo X (Medici). He was transferred to the archdiocese of Arborea (Oristano) on 3 August 1554, by Pope Julius III, on the nomination of the Emperor Charles V. He died in 1556. Eubel III, pp. 115, 324.
  45. ^ Frago: (6 Nov 1562 – 20 Dec 1566 Appointed, Bishop of Alghero)
  46. ^ Clement (23 Jan 1585 – 1601). A native of Lisbon, Petrus Clemens had been Vicar-general of the Carmelites in Sardinia. He was nominated by King Philip II of Spain and Sardinia, and approved by Pope Gregory XIII on 23 January 1585. He died in 1601. Mattei, p. 273. Eubel III, p. 234.
  47. ^ Antonio Surredu (13 Aug 1601 – Aug 1605): Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 355 with note 2.
  48. ^ Nieto was nnominated bishop by King Philip III of Spain and Sardinia, and appointed by Pope Paul V on 17 April 1606. He was transferred to the diocese of Alghero on 12 August 1613. Gauchat, pp. 78; 355 with note 3.
  49. ^ Borja (26 Aug 1613 – 1616): Gauchat, p. 355 with note 4.
  50. ^ Manconi (30 May 1616 – 1634): Gauchat, p. 355 with note 5.
  51. ^ Pirella: (7 May 1635 – 1638). Gauchat, p. 355 with note 6.
  52. ^ Gauchat, p. 355 with note 8.
  53. ^ Brunengo: (13 Aug 1663 – Nov 1679). Gauchat, p. 355 with note 9.
  54. ^ Esquiro (15 Jul 1680 – 1681): Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 401 with note 3.
  55. ^ Cugia (10 Apr 1684 – 1693): Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 401 with note 4.
  56. ^ Masones y Nin (1693–1704): (2 Jan 1693 – 15 Sep 1704 Appointed Archbishop of Oristano. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 401 with note 5.
  57. ^ Isidoro Masones y Nin: (15 Dec 1704 – Jan 1724). Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 401 with note 6.
  58. ^ Ruyu: (17 Mar 1727–Jan 1728 Died). Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 401 with note 7.
  59. ^ Sanna: (14 Jun 1728–Jan 1736 Died). Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 401 with note 8.
  60. ^ Carcassona: (26 Sep 1736–1 May 1760 Died) Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 428 with note 2
  61. ^ Pilo ws born in Sassari in 1717. In 1730, he entered religious life, first with the Jesuits and then the Carmelites. In 1745 he became a master of theology, and Pope Benedict XIV named him superior of the Carmelites in Sardinia. In 1758, he visited Turin and impressed King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, who nominated him bishop of Ales e Terralba on 11 February 1761, a choice which was confirmed by Pope Clement XIII on 25 May 1761. He was ill for the last two years of his life, usually confined to bed; he died at his country residence at Villacidro on 1 January 1786. Ritzler & Sefrin Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 429 with note 3. Ibba, pp. 74-80.
  62. ^ Villamar (15 Sep 1788 – 23 Jul 1806): Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 429 with note 4.
  63. ^ (29 Mar 1819 – 4 Sep 1822)
  64. ^ (28 Jan 1828 – On 2 Oct 1837, Tore was confirmed by Pope Gregory XVI as Archbishop of Cagliari.
  65. ^ Casula:22 Feb 1867. On 16 January 1893, he was appointed Archbishop of Oristano.
  66. ^ Buonaiutti, p. p. 283.
  67. ^ (29 Aug 1910 – 10 Oct 1947) Born in Andagno, Emanuelli had been rector of the seminary of Cagliari. Buonaiutti, p. p. 283.
  68. ^ (23 Mar 1983 – On 11 July 1989, Bishop Gilbertini was appointed Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla.
  69. ^ Carboni was appointed on 10 Feb 2016, by Pope Francis. On 4 May 2019 Appointed Archbishop of Oristano) and, additionally, since 2021, Bishop of Ales-Terralba. Diocesi di Ales-Terralba, "S.E.Rev.ma Mons. Roberto Carboni, O.F.M. Conv.;" (in Italian): retrieved: 21 January 2026. David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, "Roberto Carboni, prelate"; accessed 1 March 2024.[self-published source]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ales and Terralba". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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