Diocese of Conversano-Monopoli
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The Italian Catholic diocese of Conversano-Monopoli, in Puglia, has existed since 1986. In the year the diocese of Monopoli was united into the historic diocese of Conversano. The diocese is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto.
[edit] History
Conversano is the ancient Cupersanum. After the invasion of the Normans, it was for a while the seat of a duchy; later, however, it became a fief of the dukes of Atri. The first bishop whose date is certain was Hilarius, present at the Roman synod of 501. Local tradition, however, preserves the name of a previous bishop, Simplicius, who died in 492.
No other names are recorded up to the episcopate of Leo, mentioned in a document of 1088. Other bishops were:
- the Cistercian Stefano (c. 1266);
- Giovanni de Gropi (c. 1283);
- Antonio Guidotti (d. 1433);
- Paolo de Torcoli (d. 1482);
- Romolo de' Valenti (d. 1579);
- Giuseppe Palermo, appointed 1658;
- Andrea Brancaccia (1681).[1]
[edit] Notes
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
