Roman Catholic Diocese of Ortona a Mare e Campli

78: 515:, Volume 37 (Bar-le-duc: Typis et sumptibus Ludovici Guerin, 1883), p. 205 § 447: Die cardinalis Maffejus optime proposuit erectionem Ecclesae Ortonen. et praefectionem D. Joannis Dominici Rebibae, erexit in civitatem, et cathedralem, et praefecit gratis, pro nepote cardinalis, omnibus collaudantibus et caetera." The source is the "Acta Consistorialia," a diary kept by Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santori, Archbishop of Santa Severina. G. Cugnoni, 1144: 1156: 550:(Turin: Seb. Franco et Henrico Dalmazzo editoribus, 1867), pp. 66-70: "...Hortensem ecclesiam huiusmodi, cum omnibus iuribus et pertinentiis suis, invicem, ita ut ambae ecclesiae huiusmodi deinceps perpetuis futuris temporibus per unum episcopum Camplensem et Hortensem nuncupandum regantur, pariter perpetuo unimus, annectimus el incorporamus." Niccola Palma (1833), 144:, which had already attacked and ravaged Francavilla and the Adriatic coastal towns belonging to Chieti. Houses were ransacked and put to the torch, and the tomb of S. Thomas was broken into in search of gold and silver. The inhabitants, who had seen the approach of the Saracens, were able to save their lives by flight. 195:

1818 was reversed. The diocese of Ortona was restored, and the cathedral which had been reduced to the status of a collegiate church was restored to cathedral status. It's college of clerics again became the canons of the cathedral of Ortona. The finances of the old diocese of Ortona, which had been

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Chow assigns a date of 700. D'Avino, p. 207 col. 1, wavers between the 7th and 10th centuries: "Estinta dunque o per piccolezza verso il VI o VII secolo, ovvero per delitto nel X, restò inclusa in quella di Chieti, nel perimetro della cui diocesi era chiusa." Kehr IV, p. 276, states more carefully,

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of Chieti and the county of Chieti, announcing the confirmation of various grants to the Church of Chieti by Count Robert Loratello and his brother Tasso; the bull mentions in passing an exchange of property between Bishop Rainulfus of Chieti and Abbot Ugo of S. Giovanni de Ardano, which included

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established the diocese of Campli, and assigned the bishop of Ortona to be its bishop well. The territory for the new diocese was taken from the northeastern part of the diocese of Teramo and from the diocese of Montalto. In creating the diocese, the pope admitted that the funds available were

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on 25 February 1818. King Ferdinand issued the concordat as a law on 21 March 1818. The right of the king to nominate the candidate for a vacant bishopric was recognized, as in the Concordat of 1741, subject to papal confirmation (preconisation). On 27 June 1818, Pius VII issued the bull

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concerning the bishops of Ortona indicate. Bishop Blandus was being held in detention in Ravenna by the Exarch Romanus, and the pope wanted the exarch either to bring him up before a synod if he had committed some crime, or else allow him to return to his Church.

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Volume 2 (Turin: Franco et Dalmazzo, 1859), pp. 278-279: "Idem etiam Rainulphus episcopus ab Ugone abbate Sancti lohannis de Ardano, commutatione facta, Mucelam recepit, quae iuxta Ortonam est." No mention is made of a bishop of Ortona or a diocese of

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raised the diocese of Chieti to the rank of archdiocese by the bull "Super Universas", on 1 June 1526. He assigned the new metropolitan the suffragan dioceses of Lanciano, Penne, and Adria. No mention is made of Ortona, which was not yet a diocese.

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Bull "Pro excellenti", § 6: "Insuper attendentes, fructus, redditus et proventus mensae episcopalis Camplensis huiusmodi tenuiores esse, quam ut prò tempore existens episcopus Camplensis iuxta pontificalis dignitatis exigentiam sustentari

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issued the bull "In Eminenti" in favor of Bishop Andrea of Chieti, in which he delimited the territory and confirmed the rights and property of the diocese of Chieti. This was a repetition of bulls issued by

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emanati dopo la pubblicazione del Concordato dell'anno 1818: contenente i brevi e le lettere apostoliche, i reali decreti erescritti, le circolari ed istruzioni pubblicate dall'anno 1832 a tutto l'anno

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was the seminary. It was deemed more efficient for both dioceses to use the seminary of Lanciano on equal terms. The archbishop of Lanciano became the "Perpetual Administrator of the Church of Ortona."

624:(Rome 1853), p. 59, § 29: "Praeterae episcopalem ecclesiam Camplensem perpetuo supprimentes, illius civitatem ac dioecesim alteri episcopali ecclesiae Aprutinae adjungimus et incorporamus." 321: 553:

Storia ecclesiastica e civile della regione più settentrionale del Regno di Napoli, detta dagli Antichi Praetutium, ne'bassi tempi Aprutium oggi Città di Teramo, e diocesi Aprutina,

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Blandus was dead by August 594. Pope Gregory I appointed an apostolic visitor to see to the election of a successor. Kehr IV, p. 276-277, nos. 1-3. P Francesco Lanzoni (1927),

123:. The bull specifically mentions as belonging to Chieti: "in Ortona ecclesia Sanctae Mariae et Sancti Georgii cum earum pertinentiis, monasterium S. Mariae in Basilica." 1176: 362: 349: 71: 1039: 249: 237: 301: 535:"Idibus Maii": The date of "13 May" is a mistake, forgetting that in the month of May the Ides fall on the 15th, not the 13th. 127: 32: 737:

Boccabarile was a noble from Piacenza. When the diocese of Compli was erected in May 1604, Boccabarile became bishop of

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A concordat between the Papacy and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was signed on 16 February 1818, and ratified by

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editio novissima, Tomus X (Florence: A. Zatta 1764), pp. 865-866. Cappelletti XXI, p. 92. Gams, p. 910, column 1.

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incorporated into those of the diocese of Lanciano, were again separated. The one exception to the return to the

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Volume 1 (Teramo: Angelotti 1832), pp. 110, 123, 126. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 262 with note 3.

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Cenni storici sulle chiese arcivescovili, vescovili, e prelatizie (nulluis) del Regno delle Due Sicilie

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On 1 August 1566, Ortona became another victim of the marauding fleet of 105 Turkish galleys led by

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Volume 2 (Turin: Franco et Dalmazzo, 1859), pp. 762-763. Kehr IV, pp. 268-269, nos. 2, 5, 7, 8.

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The diocese of Ortona was in existence by the last quarter of the 6th century, as letters of

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established (or restored) the diocese of Ortona, and made it a suffragan diocese of Chieti.

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