Alessano

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Alessano
Comune
Comune di Alessano
View of Alessano
View of Alessano
Coat of arms of Alessano
Coat of arms
Alessano is located in Italy
Alessano
Alessano
Location of Alessano in Italy
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Country Italy
Region  Apulia
Province / Metropolitan city Lecce (LE)
Frazioni Marina di Novaglie, Montesardo
Area
 • Total 28.48 km2 (11.00 sq mi)
Elevation 140 m (460 ft)
Population (2012)
 • Total 6,436
 • Density 230/km2 (590/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Alessanesi
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 73031
Dialing code 0833
Patron saint St. Trifone
Saint day Last Monday in July
Website Official website

Alessano (Greek: Ἀλεξιανόν) is a town, comune, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see in the province of Lecce, part of Apulia region of south-east Italy.

Ecclesiastical history

Although an episcopal see of Alessano (Alexanum in Latin) may date from around 700 AD or was probably established under Norman rule around 900 AD, but the regular succession of its bishops began only in 1283 with a Giovanni from Naples. Until the 16th century, papal bulls regarding the bishopric called it either Alexanum or Leuca. It was a suffragan of the Metropolitan of Otranto.

On 17 May 1518, it was suppressed, its territory being merged into the diocese of Lecce under Bishop Giovanni Antonio Acquaviva d'Aragona, but it was restored on 3 June 1521.

Byzantine liturgical usages continued to be observed until abolished by Bishop Ercole Lamia (1578-1591).[2][3]

The existence of the residential see was ended by the papal bull De utiliori of 27 June 1818 of Pope Pius VII, which assigned its territory to the then diocese of Ugento.[4]

Residential Ordinaries

(very incomplete : first centuries unavailable)

Suffragan Bishops of Alessano
  • Berengario (? – 1402.02.27), later Bishop of Castro (1402.02.27 – 1429)
  • Paolo (1402.01.07 – death 1405)
  • Domenico di Napoli (1425? – ?)
  • Giacomo del Balzo (1431? – ?)
  • Simone da Brindisi, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1432.04.11 – death 1432); previously Bishop of Ruvo (Italy) (1418.01.26 – 1432.04.11)
  • Guiduccio Guidano (1432.09.16 – 1438.08.06), later Bishop of Lecce (Italy) (1438.08.06 – 1453.07.13), Metropolitan Archbishop of Bari–Canosa (Italy) (1453.07.13 – 1454)
  • Lorenzo, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1438 – ?)
  • Benedetto del Balzo (1465 – 1488)
  • Giovanni Giacomo del Balzo (1488 – death 1512)
  • Giovanni Antonio Acquaviva d’Aragona (1512.03.03 – 1517.05.18), later Bishop of Lecce (Italy) (1517.05.18 – 1525)
  • Luigi d’Aragona (1517.05.18 – 1518.05.17), also Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Cosmedin (1496.03? – 1519.01.21), Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Aquiro in commendum (1508.09.26 – 1517.05.25), Apostolic Administrator of Nardò (Italy) (1517.06.17 – 1519.01.21); previously Apostolic Administrator of Lecce (Italy) (1498.12.10 – 1502.03.24), Apostolic Administrator of Policastro (Italy) (1501 – 1504.04.22), Apostolic Administrator of Aversa (Italy) (1501.03.10 – 1515.05.21), Apostolic Administrator of Capaccio (Italy) (1503.01.20 – 1514.03.22), Apostolic Administrator of Cava (Italy) (1511 – 1514.05.05), Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic Diocese of Cádiz (Spain) (1511.02.10 – 1511.06.06), Apostolic Administrator of León (Spain) (1511.06.06 – 1516.12.17), Apostolic Administrator of Telese (Italy) (1515 – 1515)
  • Apostolic Administrator Agostino Trivulzio (1521.06.03 – 1526.07.20), while Cardinal-Deacon of S. Adriano al Foro (1517.07.06 – 1537.08.17), Archpriest of Papal Basilica of St. Peter (1520? – ?), Apostolic Administrator of Reggio Calabria (Italy) (1520.08.24 – 1520.10.01), Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic Diocese of Bobbio (Italy) (1522.09.26 – 1524.05.27), Metropolitan Archbishop of above Reggio Calabria (Italy) (1523.10.01 – 1529), Apostolic Administrator of Toulon (France) (1524.06.22 – 1535.06.07), Apostolic Administrator of Le Puy-en-Velay (France) (1525.09.15 – 1525.10.08), Apostolic Administrator of Avranches (France) (1526.05.02 – 1526.10.19)
  • Apostolic Administrator Alessandro Cesarini (1526.07.20 – 1531.11.15), while Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Via Lata (1523.12.14 – 1540.05.31), Protodeacon of Sacred College of Cardinals (1523.12.14 – 1540.05.31), Apostolic Administrator of Otranto (Italy) (1526.04.09 – 1536.03.22)
  • Francesco Antonio Balduini (1531.11.15 – death 1539)
  • Benedetto de Sanctis (1540 – death 1542)
  • Evangelista Cittadini (1542 – 1549)
  • Annibale Magalotti (1549 – death 1551)
  • Leonardo de Magistris (1551.08.21 – death 1554); previously Bishop of Capri (1540.02.13 – 1551.08.21)
  • Giulio Galletti (1555 – 1560)
  • Cesare Busdrago (1574 – 1578.08.11), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Chieti (Italy) (1578.08.11 – death 1585.10)
  • Ercole Lamia (1578 – death 1591)
  • Settimio Borsari (1591 – 1592.06.12), later Bishop of Casale Monferrato (Italy) (1592.06.12 – 1594.04.29)
  • Sestilio Mazuca (1592.06.19 – 1594)
  • Orazio Rapari (1594 – death 1595)
  • Giulio Doffi, O.P. (1595 – death 1597)
  • Celso Mancini (1597 – death 1612)
  • Nicola Antonio Spinelli (1612 – death 1634)
  • Placido Padiglia, Celestines (O.S.B. Cel.) (1634.11.27 – death 1648); previously Bishop of Lavello (1627.09.20 – 1634.11.27)
  • Francesco Antonio Roberti (1648 – death 1653)
  • Giovanni Granafei (1653 – 1666.11.10), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Bari–Canosa (Italy) (1666.11.10 – 1683.03.18)
  • Andrea Tontoli (1666 – 1695.02.07), later Bishop of Vieste (Italy) (1695.02.07 – death 1696.10.21)
  • Vincenzo della Marra (1695 – death 1712)
  • Giovanni Belardino Giannelli (1717.12.18 – death 1743)
  • Archbishop-Bishop Luigi D’Alessandro (1743.07.15 – 1754.09.16), previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Severina (Italy) (1731.05.07 – 1743.07.15); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Bari–Canosa (Italy) (1754.09.16 – death 1770)
  • Dionigi Latomo (1754.12.16 – 1781)
  • Gaetano Paolo de Miceli, Ardorini Missionaries (P.O.C.R.) (1792.02.27 – 1804.10.29); later Archbishop of Rossano (Italy) (1804.10.29 – 1813.10.22)

Titular see

The bishopric of Alexanum is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see,[5] having been nominally restored in 1968 as a titular bishopric.

It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) class except the first and the latest (of intermediary, archiepiscopal rank) :

  • Titular Archbishop Tomás Alberto Clavel Méndez (1968.12.18 – 1978.02.21), as emeritate; previously Bishop of David (Panama) (1955.07.24 – 1964.03.03), President of Episcopal Conference of Panama (1964 – 1967), President of Episcopal Secretariat of Central America and Panama (1964 – 1971), Metropolitan Archbishop of Panamá (Panama) (1964.03.03 – 1968.12.18)
  • Titular Bishop William Russell Houck (1979.03.28 – 1984.04.11)
  • Titular Bishop Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo (1984.06.27 – 1987.07.07)
  • Titular Bishop Natalino Pescarolo (1990.04.07 – 1992.05.04)
  • Titular Bishop Bosco Lin Chi-nan (林吉男) (1992.09.28 – 2004.01.24)
  • Titular Archbishop Michael August Blume, Divine Word Missionaries (S.V.D.) (2005.08.24 – ...), Apostolic Nuncio (papal ambassador) to Uganda

References

  1. ↑ Population from ISTAT
  2. ↑ Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni, vol. LXXXIII, Venice 1857, pp. 5-8
  3. ↑ Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, Venice 1864, vol. XIX, pp. 322-326
  4. ↑ Bolla De utiliori, in Bullarii romani continuatio, Vol. XV, Rome 1853, pp. 56-61
  5. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 829

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