Roman Catholic Diocese of Strongoli

The Diocese of Strongoli was a Roman Catholic diocese in Italy, located in the city of Strongoli, Calabria. In 1818 it was suppressed[1][2] by Pope Pius VII's bull De utiliori. The territory was subsequently absorbed into the Diocese of Cariati.

History

• 546: Established as Diocese of Strongoli
• June 27, 1818: Suppressed (merged into Archdiocese of Santa Severina)
• 1969: Restored as Titular Episcopal See of Strongoli

Bishops

Diocese of Strongoli

to 1600

...

• Domenico Rossi (bishop) (1433–1470 Died)[3][4]
• Nicola Balistari (1470–1479 Died)[4]
• Giovanni di Castello (1479–1486 Appointed, Bishop of Carinola)[4]
• Giovanni Antonio Gotti (1486–1496 Died)[4]
• Girolamo Lusco (1496–1509 Died)[4]
• Gaspare de Murgiis (1509–1534 Died)[5]
• Girolamo Grimaldi (1534–1535 Resigned)[5]
• Pietro Ranieri (1535–1541 Resigned)[5]
• Girolamo Zacconi (1541–1558 Resigned)[5]
• Matteo Zacconi (1558–1565 Died)[5]
• Tommaso Orsini (1566–1568 Appointed, Bishop of Foligno)[5]
• Timoteo Giustiniani (1568–1571 Died)[5]
• Gregorio Forbicini (1572–1579 Died)[5]
• Rinaldo Corso (1579–1582 Died)[5]
• Domenico Petrucci (1582–1584 Appointed, Bishop of Bisignano)[5]
• Giovanni Luigi Marescotti (1585–1587 Died)[5]
• Claudio Marescotti, O.S.B. (1587–1590 Died)[5]
• Claudio Vico (1590–1599 Died)[5]
• Marcello Lorenzi (1600–1601 Died)[6]

1600 to 1800

• Sebastiano Ghislieri (1601–1627 Died)[6]
• Bernardino Piccoli (1627–1636 Died)[6]
• Sallustio Bartoli (1636–1637 Died)[6]
• Giulio Diotallevi (1637–1638 Died)[6]
• Carlo Diotallevi (1639–1652 Died)[6]
• Martino Denti de' Cipriani, B. (1652–1655 Died)[6]
• Biagio Mazzella, O.P. (1655–1663 Appointed, Bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti)[6]
• Antonio Maria Camalda (1663–1690 Died)[6][7]
• Giovanni Battista Carrone (1691–1706 Died)[7]
• Tommaso Olivieri (1706–1719 Died)[7]
• Domenico de Marzano (1719–1735 Appointed, Bishop of Bova)[7]
• Gaetano d'Arco (1735–1741 Appointed, Bishop of Nusco)
• Ferdinando Mandarini (1741–1748 Appointed, Bishop of Oppido Mamertina)
• Domenico Morelli (1748–1792 Resigned)
• Pasquale Petruccelli (1793–1798 Died)

1818: Suppressed; territory transferred to the Diocese of Cariati

Titular Bishops of Strongoli

• Nicolas Verhoeven, M.S.C.[8] (1969 –1976 Resigned)
• Olavio López Duque, O.A.R.[9] (1977–2013 Died)

Barthol Barretto, is the Auxiliary of Archdiocese of Bombay (from 2016 onwards)

References

1. Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Strongoli". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved January 3, 2019. ^[self-published]
2. Chow, Gabriel. "Titular Episcopal See of Strongoli (Italy)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved January 3, 2019. ^[self-published]
3. Morelli, Tommaso (January 1, 1859). Opuscoli storici e biografici di Tommaso Morelli. Stab. Tipogr. del Cav. Gaetano Nobile. pp. 66. Domenico Rossi strongoli.
4. Eubel, Konrad (1914). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. II (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 242. (in Latin)
5. Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. pp. 304–305. (in Latin)
6. Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 323. (in Latin)
7. Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. V. Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. p. 364. (in Latin)
8. Verhoeven had resigned as Bishop of Manado, Indonesia.
9. López Duque was Vicar Apostolic of Casanare, Columbia.