Cerenzia
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Cerenzia | |
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Comune di Cerenzia | |
UTC+2 (CEST) | |
Postal code | 88822 |
Dialing code | 0984 |
Patron saint | San Teodoro d'Amasea |
Saint day | November 9 |
Cerenzia is a town, comune (municipality), former bishopric and Latin titular see with a population of 1000 people in the province of Crotone, in Calabria region, southernmost peninsular Italy.
The modern town is besides the Ancient settlement Acerenthia, now a rural site known as Cerenzia vecchia ('old C.'), which includes the ruins of the cathedral dedicated to Saint Theodorus of Amasea, all abandoned to peasantry by the second half of the Ottocento (19th century).
Ecclesiastical history
Circa 960 was founded a Diocese of Cerenz(i)a (Italian) / Pumentum (Latin) / Cerenza / Geruntin(us) (Latin adjective), bordering its invariable Metropolitan, the
It is first documented in the
Until the Norman conquest of Calabria (mid 11th century), it was in the sway of the above patriarchate and used its Greek-language
Noted early (late 11th century) bishop Policronius, recuperated the 'Greek' abbey of Santa Maria di Altilia. The bishoprics rich gifts and possessions aroused greed among the local barons, especially Marchisorto, count of Crotone Stefano, tried to impose in 1205 his chaplain, Madio, instead of legitimate bishop Guglielmo, elected by the (cathedral) chapter.
The arrival of the Angevine rule spelled the diocese's decline, among more conflict with the feudal lords, requiring appeals to Metropolitan and Pope.
Mid Trecento (14th century), the area suffered health problems like malaria and from its poor position, even for drinking water, leading to the city being abandoned and the countryside depopulated by harsh feudal impositions.
In 1342 the phrase 'Bishop of Cerenzia and
A pest epidemic in 1528 caused the town of Cerenzia and its five parishes to be abandoned, losing its diocesan archive. È in questa occasione che andò in gran parte perduto anche l'archivio. Visiting in the late Cinquecento, bishop Properzio Resta described its pitiful state, including cathedral and palace (Pesavento). Bishops' attempts in the
As part of a reorganization of the
As is customary, the bull referred to the see in adjectival form, and called it ecclesia Geruntina, suggesting as the Latin substantive (noun) form: Geruntia. The Annuario Pontificio gives Pumentum as the Latin substantive form and Cerenza, rather than Cerenzia, as the Italian form, but indicates Geruntinus as the Latin adjective.
Residential Ordinaries
- Incomplete : first incumbent(s?) lacking
- Policronio (1099? – ?)
- Giberto (1198? – ?)
- Guglielmo (? – death 1208)
- Bernardo, Cistercian Order(O. Cist.) (1208 – death 1216)
- Nicola (1216 – death 1233?)
- Matteo, O. Cist. (1234 – ?)
- Nicola (1342.08.13 – ?), also Bishop of Cariati (Italy) (1342.08.13 – ?)
- Giovanni Fardini, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1372.12.22 – ?)
- Jacques de la Chastre, O.P. (1391.02.22 – ?)
- Guglielmo (1394.02.13 – ?)
- Gerardo (? – 1394.02.13), next Archbishop of Rossano (Italy) (1394.02.13 – 1399.09.27), Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Severina(Italy) (1399.09.27 – death 1400)
- Tommaso Rossi (1420.12.23 – 1429.05.18), next Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (Italy) (1429.05.18 – 1429.12.23), Bishop of Strongoli(Italy) (1429.12.23 – death 1433)
- TO BE COMPLETED
- ...
- From 1481 (personal union), see the Bishops of Diocese of Cariati.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1968 as Latin
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
- Andrea Bernardo Schierhoff (born USA) (1968.11.11 –death 1986.12.01), first as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of La Paz (Bolivia) (1968.11.11 – 1982.12.17), then as Apostolic Vicar of Pando(Bolivia) (1982.12.17 – 1986.12.01)
- José María Arancibia (1987.02.26 – 1993.02.13) as Auxiliary Bishop of Coadjutor Archbishop of Mendoza(Argentina) (1993.02.13 – 1996.03.25), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Mendoza (1996.03.25 – retired 2012.11.10)
- Pere Tena Garriga (1993.06.09 – death 2014.02.10) as Auxiliary Bishop of Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments(1988.06.28 – 1993.06.09)
- José Trinidad Fernández Angulo (2014.04.17 – ...), as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Caracas (Venezuela) (2014.04.17 – ...).
Economy
Cerenzia relies on the production of oil, wine, cereals, citruses and the intense breeding of the cattle.
See also
References
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
- ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
- ^ Papal bull De utiliori, in Bullarii romani continuatio, Vol. XV, Rome 1853, p. 58
- ^ Cenni storici sulle chiese arcivescovili, vescovili e prelatizie (nullius) del Regno delle Due Sicilie, Napoli 1848, pp. 138–139
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 869
- ^ Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1 Archived July 9, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, p. 261; vol. 2 Archived October 4, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, p. 158
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 866
Sources and external links
- Bibliography – ecclesiastical
- Ferdinando Ughelli, Italia sacra, vol. IX, second edition, Venice 1721, coll. 498–505
- Vincenzio d'Avino, Cenni storici sulle chiese arcivescovili, vescovili e prelatizie (nullius) del Regno delle Due Sicilie, Napels 1848, pp. 138–139
- Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai giorni nostri, vol. XXI, Venice 1870, pp. 258–259
- Domenico Taccone-Gallucci, Regesti dei Romani Pontefici per le chiese della Calabria, Rome 1902, p. 444
- Andrea Pesavento, La cattedrale rovinata di San Teodoro a Cerenzia Vecchia, in La Provincia KR nr. 21-23/1998
- Paul Fridolin Kehr, Italia Pontificia, X, Berlin 1975, p. 129
- Norbert Kamp, Kirche und Monarchie im staufischen Königreich Sizilien, vol 2, Prosopographische Grundlegung: Bistümer und Bischöfe des Königreichs 1194 – 1266; Apulien und Kalabrien, Münich 1975, pp. 897–904
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 869
- Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1, p. 261; vol. 2, p. 158
- Papal bulla 'De utiliori', in Bullarii romani continuatio, vol. XV, Rome 1853, pp. 56–61