Diocese of Tursi-Lagonegro


The Diocese of Tursi-Lagonegro is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Basilicata, southern Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo.
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History

The diocese of Tursi is first attested as a Greek diocese. In the privilege granted by Polyeuktos, the Patriarch of Constantinople to the Metropolitan of Otranto in 968, the Metropolitan is granted the right to consecrate the bishops of Acerenza, Tursi, Gravina, Matera, and Tricarico.
The first bishop to call himself Bishop of Anglona was Petrus. Simeon, a bishop of Anglona, was present at the ceremony of donation of some fields, made by Hugo di Chiaromonte and his wife Ginarga to the Basilian monastery of Sts. Elias and Anastasius.
On 16 June 1102, Pope Paschal II confirmed the privileges of the metropolitan archbishop of Acerenza, which included the suffragan dioceses of Venosa, Gravina, Tricarico, Tursi, and Potenza. The privilege was repeated by Pope Eugenius III on 1 April 1151; by Pope Alexander III on 7 September 1179; and by Pope Innocent III on 10 December 1201. In October 1167, King William II of Sicily granted the castle of Nucara to Bishop Guilelmus of Anglona, for the good of his soul. In July 1181, Bishop Roboan of Anglona relinquished his rights over the abbey of Ss. Elias and Anastasius of Carbone to the archbishop of Monreale.
Following the death of the Emperor Frederick II in 1250, the struggle for the succession between Conrad and Manfred involved not only the papacy, but also most of the vassals of the Empire in south Italy. Pope Innocent IV excommunicated Manfred in July 1254. One of the leaders of the opposition to Manfred, and a papal supporter, was Borello, the lord of Anglona. In October 1254, five months after the death of Conrad, Manfred killed Borello. Manfred fled to Lucera where he was favorably received, and assumed control over the town and fortress.
Anglona was destroyed in the days of Queen Johanna of Naples.
The name of the diocese was officially changed from Diocese of Anglona to Diocese of Anglona-Tursi in 1545 or 1546, Tursi being a town in the diocese of Anglona.

Reorganization of 1976

On 8 September 1976, the diocese of Diano-Policastro lost seven towns, including Lagonegro, when the Diocese of Tursi-Lagonegro was established. The church of S. Nicholas of Bari in Lagonegro was promoted to the status of co-cathedral. The name of "Anglona" was suppressed from the diocesan name, but the name was retained and placed among the names of future titular sees.
Following the Second Vatican Council, and in accordance with the norms laid out in the council's decree, Christus Dominus chapter 40, Pope Paul VI ordered a reorganization of the ecclesiastical provinces in southern Italy by the bull Quo aptius of 21 August 1976. The ecclesiastical provinces of Acerenza and of Matera were abolished, and a new province, that of Potenza, was created. On 12 September 1976, Pope Paul continued the reorganization by dissolving the Episcopal Conference of Benevento and of Lucana-Salernitana. He created a new Episcopal Conference in the area of Basilicata, to be called "Apulia", and which included the dioceses of Potenza, Marsico Nuovo and Venosa; Acerenza and Tricarico; Melphi, Rapolla and Venosa; Tursi-Lagonegro; and Materana and Montepeloso. The diocese of Tursi-Lagonegro was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Potenza-Marsico Nuovo-Venosa.

Chapter and Cathedral

In 1702, both the bishop and the Chapter were living in Tursi. The Cathedral of the Annunciation in Tursi was administered by a Chapter consisting of three dignities and ten canons. In 1763, there were three dignities and fourteen canons. In 1870, the cathedral was administered by a Chapter, consisting of three dignities and eleven canons.

Bishops

Diocese of Anglona

Erected: 11th Century

Latin Name: Anglonensis

Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Acerenza e Matera
  • Leon
  • Michael
  • Engelbert
  • Simeon
  • Petrus
  • Johannes
  • Riccardus
  • Roboan
  • Petrus de Postitio
  • Robertus
  • Deodatus de Squillace, O.M.
  • Joannes de Montefuscolo
  • Leonardus, O.Cist.
  • Gualterius
  • Marcus
  • Silvester
  • Franciscus della Mara
  • Guillelmus
  • Johannes de Tricarico
  • Riccardus
  • Philippus
  • Philippus
  • Roger Marescalchi Avignon Obedience
  • Jacobus Roman Obedience
  • Roger Marescalchi
  • Giovanni Caracciolo
  • Jacobus de Tussi
  • Ludovicus Fenollet
  • Jacobus Chiasconi
  • Fabricius de Capua
  • Giovanni Antonio Scotti
  • Gianvincenzo Carafa Administrator
  • Oliviero Carafa
  • Bernardino Elvino

Diocese of Anglona-Tursi

Name Changed: 8 August 1545

Latin Name: Anglonensis-Tursiensis

''Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Matera''

to 1700

1700 to 1900

  • Domenico Sabbatini
  • Ettore del Quarto
  • Guilio Capece Scondito
  • Giovanni Battista Pignatelli
  • Salvatore Vecchioni, C.O.
  • Arcangelo Gabriele Cela
  • Giuseppe Saverio Poli
  • Antonio Cinque
  • Gaetano Tigani
  • Gennaro Acciardi
  • Rocco Leonasi
  • Serafino Angelini
  • Carmelo Pujia

since 1900

  • Ildefonso Vincenzo Pisani, C.R.L.
  • Giovanni Pulvirenti
  • Ludovico Cattaneo, O.Ss.C.A.
  • Domenico Petroni
  • Lorenzo Giacomo Inglese, O.F.M. Cap.
  • Pasquale Quaremba
  • Secundo Tagliabue
  • Dino Tomassini
  • Vincenzo Franco

Diocese of Tursi-Lagonegro

Name Changed: 8 September 1976

Latin Name: Tursiensis-Lacunerulonensis

Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo

Episcopal lists

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Studies

  • Falkenhausen, V. von. "La diocesi di Tursi-Anglona in epoca normanno-sveva: terra d'incontro tra Greci e Latini.". In: Fonseca, C.D. and Pace, V. Santa Maria di Anglona. Galatina: Congedo Editore. Pp. 27-36.
  • Fraikin, J.,, in: Alfred Baudrillart, Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, Volume 3, pp. 231-238.
  • Kamp, Norbert. Kirche und Monarchie im staufischen Königreich Sizilien: München: Wilhelm Fink 1975.
  • Kehr, Paulus Fridolin. Italia pontificia. Regesta pontificum Romanorum. . Berlin: Weidmann.. pp. 468-471.
  • Loud, G.A.. . Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • Mattei-Cerasoli, L.,, in: Archivio storico per le provincie Napolitane XLIII, pp. 363–382.