Diocese of Nuoro


The Diocese of Nuoro is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church on the east-central coast Sardinia, facing the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Cagliari. Historically it was the diocese of Galtellì until 1779, and then the diocese of Galtellì-Nuoro until 1928. In 1928, it became the Diocese of Nuoro.

History

A bishop of Gallura, Villanus, is attested as late as 1114. Subsequently his diocese was divided in two: Civitas and Galtelli. Both were immediately subject to the Papacy until the papacy of Innocent II.
Galtellì was already an episcopal see in 1138, when Pope Innocent II made it a suffragan of the archdiocese of Pisa; but, by the mid 13th century, it was directly subject to the Holy See.
The cathedral of Galtelli was dedicated to Saint Peter. It was administrated and served by a corporation called a Chapter, headed by one dignity, the Archpriest, and eight canons.
On 11 September 1495, Pope Alexander VI suppressed the diocese if Galtelli with the bull "Sacrosancta Romana Ecclesia", and its territory was united to the archdiocese of Cagliari.
On 21 July 1779, by the Apostolic brief "Eam inter caeteras", Pope Pius VI, responding to the request of King Victor Emmanuel III of Savoy and Sardinia, restored the ancient diocese of Galtellina, moved the town of Nuoro, a commune of 2,000 persons, into the diocese, and ordered that the diocese be called "Galtellinensis-Norensis". He directed that Nuoro be the seat of the bishop. The new cathedral in Nuoro was to be the church of Santa Maria ad Nives. The first bishop, Giovanni Serra-Urru, was appointed in the consistory of 18 September 1780.
In the 1920s, the bishop and authorities of the diocese and civil province of Nouro were eager to shorten the designation of "Galtelli-Nouro", and they therefore applied to the Vatican for permission. The Sacred Consistorial Congregation replied on 27 January 1928, granting permission, with papal consent, to style the diocese simply as "Nuoro".
Among its bishops was Fra Arnolfo de Bissalis.

Bishops

Diocese of Galtelli

Erected: 12th Century
Latin Name: Galtellinensis
  • Bernardus
  • Ioannes
  • Magister
  • Nicolaus
  • Gualterius, O.P.
  • Simon
  • Antonius
  • Arnaldus de Episcopali, O.Carm.
  • Albertus
  • Antonius de Sabatinis, O.Carm.
  • Antonius Petri, O. Carm. Avignon Obedience
  • Guilelmus Arnaudi, O.Min. Avignon Obedience
  • Antonius Roceres Roman Obedience
  • Paulus de Roma Roman Obedience
  • Bertrandus Flores Roman Obedience
  • Gerardus
  • Joannes de Mirapillis, O.P.
  • Joannes Ferrarii de Valencia, O.Min.
  • Guglielmo da Morana, O.Min.
  • Sebastian Abbatis, O.P.
  • Laurentius Pugiol, O.Min.
  • Giovanni Cicci, O.P.
  • Giorgio Pernia
  • Guglielmo Oller
  • Guglielmo Vidal
  • Giovanni Vincy

    Diocese of Galtelli-Nuoro (Galtelly Nori)

Name Changed: 21 July 1779
Latin Name: Galtellinensis-Nuorensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Cagliari
  • Giovanni Antioco Serra Urru
  • Pietro Antonio Craveri, O.F.M. Obs.
  • Alberto Solinas
  • Antonio-Maria Casabianca
  • Emanuele Marongiu Maccioni
  • Salvatore Angelo de Martis, O. Carm.
  • Luca Canepa
  • Maurilio Fossati, O.Ss.G.C.

    Diocese of Nuoro

Name Changed: 27 January 1928
Latin Name: Nuorensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Cagliari
  • Giuseppe Cogoni
  • Felice Beccaro
  • Giuseppe Melas
  • Giovanni Melis Fois
  • Pietro Meloni
  • Mosè Marcia
  • Antonio Mura

    Books

Studies

  • Benigni, U.. "Galtelli-Nuoro, diocese of," in: The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. VI, .
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  • Kehr, Paul Fridolin. Italia Pontificia, Vol. X: Calabria – Insulae.
  • Mattei, Antonio Felice. Sardinia sacra seu De episcopis Sardis historia nunc primò confecta a F. Antonio Felice Matthaejo.. Romae: ex typographia Joannis Zempel apud Montem Jordanum, 1758. .