Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias

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The Italian Catholic diocese of Tempio-Ampurias, in Sardinia, was until a name change in 1986 the historical diocese of Ampurias e Tempio. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Sassari

It had borne that name since 1506, when it was combined with the diocese of Tempio, previously being simply the diocese of Ampurias.[1]

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[edit] History

Ampurias was erected in 1113; the diocese of Cività, now Tempio, in 304 by St. Simplicius. Cività was united to Ampurias by Pope Julius II in 1506.

Later the see was transferred to Terranuova. Pope Gregory XVI suppressed the cathedral there by the Bull Quamvis aqua, 26 August 1839, and raised the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, in Tempio, to a cathedral, uniting Tempio and Ampurias, so that one bishop should govern both.

The see was vacant from 1854 to 1871. Antonio Maria Contini was appointed bishop of Ogliastra, 26 September, 1882, and transferred to this diocese, 16 January, 1893.

[edit] References

  • Battandier, Ann. pont. cath. (1906)
  • Gams, Series episc. Ecclesiœ cathol. (Ratisbon, 1873)
  • Martini, Storia eccles. della Sardinia (Cagliari, 1839), IV, 349

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Catholic Hierarchy

[edit] External link

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.