Diocese of Bova
The Diocese of Bova was a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Bova, Calabria, Italy[1] from the seventh century until 1986.[2][3]
Ordinaries
Diocese of Bova
Erected: 7th Century
Latin name: Bovensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria
- Giovanni Dominici (1412–1419 Died)
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- Sante (1435–1441 Resigned)
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- Marcello Franci (1577–)
- Bartolomeo Corsini (1587–1590 Died)
- Giovanni Camerota (1592–1622 Died)[4]
- Nicola Maria Madaffari (2 May 1622 – 1627 Died)[4]
- Fabio Olivadisi (1627–1646 Appointed, Bishop of Catanzaro)[4]
- Martino Megali (1646–1656 Died)[4]
- Bernardino d'Aragona (1657–1669 Died)[4]
- Marco Antonio Contestabile (1669–1699 Died)
- Francesco Antonio Gaudiosi (1699–1714 Died)
- Paolo Stabile (1718–1729 Died)
- Giuseppe Barone (1729–1731 Appointed, Bishop of Marsi)
- Tommaso Giosafat Melina 1731–1735 Died)
- Domenico de Marzano (1735–1752 Died)
- Stefano Moràbito (1752–1764 Resigned)
- Antonio Spedalieri (1764–1791 Died)
- Giuseppe Martini (1792–1802 Died)
- Nicola-Maria Laudisio (1819–1824 Confirmed, Bishop of Policastro)
- Giovanni Corcione (1824–1830 Died)
- Giuseppe Maria Giove (1832–1834 Confirmed, Bishop of Gallipoli)
- Vincenzo Rozzolino (1835–1849 Confirmed, Bishop of Caserta)
- Pasquale Taccone (1849–1850 Confirmed, Bishop of Teramo)
- Raffaele Ferrigno (1851–1856 Confirmed, Archbishop of Brindisi)
- Dalmazio d'Andrea (1856–1870 Died)
- Antonio Piterà (1871–1876 Resigned)
- Nicola de Simone (1877–1895 Died)
- Raffaele Rossi (1895–1899 Appointed, Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera)
- Domenico Pugliatti (1900–1914 Died)
- Paolo Albera (1915–1921 Resigned)
- Andrea Taccone (1923–1929 Appointed, Bishop of Ruvo e Bitonto)
- Giuseppe Cognata (1933–1940 Resigned)
- Enrico Montalbetti (1941–1943 Died)
- Antonio Lanza (1943–1950 Died)
- Giovanni Ferro (1950–1960 Resigned)
- Giuseppe Lenotti (1960–1962 Appointed, Bishop of Foggia)
- Aureliano Sorrentino (1962–1966 Appointed, Bishop of Potenza e Marsico Nuovo)
- Giovanni Ferro (1973–1977 Retired)
- Aureliano Sorrentino (1977–1986 Appointed, Archbishop of Reggio Calabria-Bova)
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Diocese of Bova.
Situated in the civil province of Reggio, in Calabria, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Reggio. Luminosus, who attended the Lateran Council (649), under Pope Martin I, is believed by some to have been the firt Bishop of Bova; in reality he was Bishop of Bologna. The city of Bova (and consequently the see) is of much later origin than the pontificate of Martin I; it was peopled about 1477 by Albanian refugees fleeting from the Turkish invasions that followed upon the death of Scanderbeg. In their new home these Albanians retained the Greek rite, which remained in use until the reign of Pope Gregory XIII. One of the most distinguished Bishops of Bova was Achille Brancia (1549), a member of the council of Trent. The diocese contains about 20,000 souls, 14 parishes, 34 churches and chapels, 34 secular priests, and 25 seminarians.
CAPELLETTI, Le chiese d'Italia (Venice, 1844), XXI; BATTANDIER, Ann. Pont. Cth. (Paris, 1907).
References
- Back to citation Bova - Catholic Encyclopedia article
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