Roman Catholic Diocese of Ploaghe

Ploaghe — Chiesa di San Pietro (former cathedral)

The Diocese of Ploaghe (Latin: Dioecesis Plovacensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Ploaghe in the Province of Sassari in the Italian region Sardinia. Estalished in the 12th century, it was a suffragan (subordinate) of the metropolitan of Torres (Sassari). In 1503, the diocese was suppressed, by order of Pope Julius II.

History

Ploaghe is mentioned as a suffragan of Torres in the Luber Censuum of the late 12th century. ^[1]

Bishops of Ploaghe

Comune of Ploaghe (province_of_Sassari)

• Jorgi di Maiule (1063–1082) ^[2]

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• Innocentius (c. 1090) ^[3]
• Petrus (c. 1116)
• Constantinus Berrica (c. 1125) ^[4]
• Gualfredus (c. 1139) ^[5]
• Petrus de Canneto ( ? –1134) ^[6]
• Constantinus de Lellis (c. 1170)
• Iustus de Salvennor (after 1170) ^[7]
• Stephanus

...

• [Ignotus] ( ? – 1203) ^[8]
• Obertus (c. 1237) ^[9]

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• Pere de Portell, O.P. (28 Feb 1328 Ordained – )

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• Francesco (1342–1352)
• Raimundo (1352–1361)

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• Nicolò Basone (14 Jun 1447 – 1475)
• Basilio Gambone (15 Mar 1476 – 1488)
• Bartolomeo Pathos (27 Aug 1488 – 1495)
• Giovanni Cardona, O.S.A. (13 Feb 1495 – 1503) ^[10]

Suppressed: 1503

See also

• Catholic Church in Italy

References

1. Paul Fridolin Kehr (ed. D. Girgensohn), Italia Pontificia(in Latin), Volume 10 (Turici: Weidmann 1975), p. 460.
2. E. Besta, "Cronologia del condaghe di Silki," (in Italian), in: Archivio storico Sardo Vol. 1 (Cagliari 1905) pp. 55, 57, 59. F. Floris (ed.), "Ploaghe, diocesi di," in: La grande Enciclopedia della Sardegna Volume 7 (La Nuova Sarda 2007), p. 338.
3. Innocentius (Giacentinus): Matthei, p. 225, derived from Vico. Gams, p. 841, col. 2.
4. Constantine became archbishop of Torres (Sassari) in 1127. Enrico Besta, La Sardegna medioevale (Palermo: A. Reber 1909), p. 269. La grande Enciclopedia della Sardegna 7 (2007), p. 338.
5. Gualfredus (or) Giovanni: Martini III, p. 376.
6. Pietro became archbishop of Torres in 1134. E. Besta, "Postille storiche al condaghe di San Michele di Salvennor," in: Rendiconti. Reale Istituto Lombardo di scienze e lettere Vol. 46 (Milano: Hoepli 1913), p. 1070. La grande Enciclopedia della Sardegna Volume 7 (La Nuova Sarda 2007), p. 338.
7. Justus: La grande Enciclopedia della Sardegna Volume 7 (2007), p. 338.
8. Pope Innocent III wrote a letter on 10 March 1203, ordering that the killers of the bishop of Ploaghe be proceeded against. Eubel I, p. 403, note 1.
9. Bishop Obertus was being oppressed financially by agents of Enzo, king of Torres; Pope Innocent IV wrote to the bishop of Castro to organize assistance for him. Pietro Meloni-Satta, Effemeride Sarda, Col l'aggiunta d'alcuni cenni biografici(in Italian) (Sassari: G. Dessi 1877), p. 188. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 403.
10. Mattei, p. 227. Cappelletti, p. 139.

Sources

Episcopal lists

• Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. 1 (Tomus 1) (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 403.. Archived.
• Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. 2 (Tomus 2) (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 217.. Archived.
• Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp. 841-842. (Use with caution; obsolete)

Studies

• Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1857). Le chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Vol. decimoterzo (13). Venezia: Antonelli. pp. 138–139..
• Martini, Pietro (1841). Storia ecclesiastica di Sardegna. Volume 3 Cagliari: Stamperia Reale, 1841. (pp. 376-377)
• Mattei, Antonio Felice (1758). Sardinia sacra, seu De episcopis Sardis historia nunc primò confecta a F. Antonio Felice Matthaejo. (in Latin). Romae: ex typographia Joannis Zempel apud Montem Jordanum, 1758. Pp. 225-227.

External Links

• Cheney, David M. Catholic-Hierarchy.org . "Diocese of Ploaghe". Retrieved May 1, 2016.^{[ self-published source ]}
• Chow, Gabriel. GCatholic.org. "Titular Episcopal See of Ploaghe". Retrieved May 1, 2016.^{[ self-published source ]}