Diocese of Andria
The Diocese of Andria is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Apulia, seated at Andria Cathedral which is built over a church dedicated to St. Peter, about ten miles southwest of Trani. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto. The diocese has 39 parishes, with one priest for every 1,573 Catholics.
History
Tradition assigns the Christian origin of Andria to an Englishman, St. Richard, chosen as bishop by Pope Gelasius I, about 492 AD. The story has been dismissed as fable by some scholars. A Bishop Christopher of Andria is reported at the II Council of Nicaea in 787, but inspection shows that he was Christopher Bishop of Saint Cyriacus.The diocese dates probably back to the time of Gelasius II, elected Pope in 1118. The earliest known bishop of Andria, whose name is not preserved, took part in the translation of the body of Saint Nicholas the Pilgrim in Trani in 1143. Bishop Richard of Andria was present at the Eleventh Ecumenical Council held under Pope Alexander III.
It was united with the diocese of Montepeloso, from 1452 to 1479.
Bishops
Diocese of Andria
Erected: 11th CenturyLatin Name: Andriensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Trani
- Richard
- Mathaeus
- frater Joannes
- Placidus
- Joannes
- Dominicus
- Joannes de Alexandria, O.E.S.A.
- Andreas, O.E.S.A.
- Joannes
- Marcus
- Lucidus de Nursia, O.E.S.A.
- Franciscus
- Milillus Sabanicae, O.E.S.A.
- Franciscus de Nigris
- Joannes Donadei
Diocese of Andria-Montepeloso
Latin Name: Andriensis-Montis Pelusii
- Antonellus, O.Min.
- Matthaeus Antonius
- Franciscus de Bertinis
- Martin Sotomayor, O.Carm.
- Angelus Florus
Diocese of Andria
1479 to 1800
Split: 1479 into the Diocese of Andria and the Diocese of MontepelosoLatin Name: Andriensis
- Angelus Florus
- Geronimo Porcari
- Antonio de Roccamoro, O.F.M.
- Andrea Pastore
- Simone de Nor
- Niccolò Fieschi
- Giovanni Francesco Fieschi
- Luca Fieschi
- Luca Antonio Resta
- Vincenzo Bassi
- Antonio de Franchis, C.R.
- Vincenzo Caputo
- Alessandro Strozzi
- Felice Franceschini, O.F.M. Conv.
- Ascanio Cassiani
- Alessandro Egizio
- Pietro Vecchia, O.S.B.
- Francesco Antonio Triveri, O.F.M. Conv.
- Andrea Ariani
- Nicola Adinolfi
- Giovanni Paolo Torti Rogadei, O.S.B.
- Cherubino Tommaso Nobilione, O.P.
- Domenico Anelli
- Francesco Ferrante
- Saverio Palica, O.S.B.
- Salvatore Maria Lombardi
since 1818
- Giovanni Battista Bolognese
- Giuseppe Cosenza
- Giovanni Giuseppe Longobardi
- Federico Maria Galdi
- Giuseppe Staiti di Brancaleone
- Eugenio Tosi, O.Ss.C.A.
- Alessandro Macchi
- Ferdinando Bernardi
- Paolo Rostagno
- Giuseppe Di Donna, O.SS.T.
- Luigi Pirelli
- Francesco Brustia
- Giuseppe Lanave
- Raffaele Calabro
- Luigi Mansi
Books
Studies
- Kamp, Norbert. Kirche und Monarchie im staufischen Königreich Sizilien: München: Wilhelm Fink 1975.
- Kehr, Paulus Fridolin. Italia pontificia. Regesta pontificum Romanorum. . Berlin: Weidmann., pp. 307–308.
- Loconte, R.. I vescovi di Andria.
Acknowledgment