Roman Catholic Archdiocese of L'Aquila
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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of L'Aquila (Latin: Archidioecesis Aquilanus) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. It was erected as the Diocese of L'Aquila on February 20, 1257 by Pope Alexander IV, and promoted to an archdiocese by Pope Pius IX on January 19, 1876. Pope Paul VI elevated it to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on August 15, 1972, with the suffragan sees of Avezzano and Sulmona–Valva.
The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is San Massimo Cathedral; L'Aquila also contains the Basilica of San Bernardino da Siena. The current Archbishop of L'Aquila is His Excellency Giuseppe Molinari, since his appointment on June 6, 1998.
[edit] List of bishops and archbishops of L'Aquila
- Berardo da Padula (1256-1264)
- Niccolò Sinizzo (1267-1294)
- Nicola Castroceli (1294-1303).
- Bartolomeo Conti (1303-1312)
- Filippo Delci (1312-1327)
- Angelo Acciaioli (1328-1342)
- Pietro Guglielmi (1343-1346)
- Paolo Rainaldi (1349-1377)
- Isacco D'Arcione (1353-1355)
- Giovanni Zacchei (1377-1381)
- Stefano Sidonio (1381-1382)
- Clemente Secinari (1382-1384)
- Oddo (1386-1388)
- Ludovico Cola (1389-1399)
- Giacomo Donadei (1401-1431)
- Amico Agnifili (1431-1472)
- Francesco Agnifili (1472-1476)
- Ludovico Borgio (1477-1485)
- Giovanbattista Gaglioffi (1486-1491)
- Giovanni Di Leone (1493-1502)
- Gualtiero Suardo (1502-1504)
- Giovanni da Prato (1504-1506)
- Francesco Franchi (1517-1523)
- Giovanni Piccolomini (1523-1525)
- Pomepo Colonna (1525-1532)
- Giovanni Piccolomini (apostolic administrator, 1532 - 1538)
- Bernardo Sancio (1538-1552)
- Alvaro Della Quadra (1553-1561)
- Giovanni D'Acugna (1561-1579)
- Mariano De Racciaccaris (1579-1592)
- Basilio Pignatelli (1593-1599)
- Giuseppe De Rubeis (1599-1605)
- Gundisalvo De Ruenda (1606-1622)
- Alvaro De Mendoza (1622-1628)
- Gaspare De Gaioso (1629-1644)
- Clemente Del Pezzo (1646-1651)
- Francesco Tellio De Leon (1654-1662)
- Carlo De Angelis (1663-1674)
- Giovanni Torricella (1676-1681)
- Arcangelo Tipaldi (1681-1682)
- Ignazio Della Zerda (1683-1702)
- Domenico Taglialatela (1718-1742)
- Giuseppe Coppola (1742-1749)
- Ludovico Sabatini (1750-1776)
- Benedetto Cervone (1777-1788)
- Francesco Saverio Gualtieri (1792-1817)
- Girolamo Manieri (1818-1844)
- Michele Navazio (1845-1851)
- Luigi Filippi (1853-1881)
- Augusto Antonio Vicentini (1881 - 1892)
- Francesco Paolo Carrano (1893 - 1906)
- Peregrin-François Stagni, SM (1907 - 1916)
- Adolfo Turchi (1918 - 1929)
- Gaudenzio Manuelli (1931 - 1941)
- Carlo Confalonieri (1941 - 1950)
- Costantino Stella (1950 - 1973)
- Carlo Martini (1973 - 1983)
- Mario Peressin (1983 - 1998)
- Giuseppe Molinari (1998 - present)
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Catholic-Hierarchy
- Giga-Catholic Information
- (Italian)index of a history of L'Aquila mentioning Arch Bishops
