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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agrigento
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The Archdiocese of Agrigento (Latin: Archidioecesis Agrigentina) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy.[1][2][3] The historic diocese of Agrigento was also known as the Diocese of Girgenti, and Diocese of Agrigentum. It used to be a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Monreale. A metropolitan see, the Archdiocese of Agrigento has two suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province.
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History
Girgenti (the Greek Acragas, Roman Agrigentum) considers Saint Libertinus as its earliest proselytizer; he is said to have been sent by Saint Peter. Local enthusiasm for an Apostolic connection even led someone to forge a bull of investiture, an instrument which was not created for centuries.[4]
Gregory of Agrigento, said to have been martyred in 262, never existed. His name occurs in the hagiographical work, "The Life of St. Agrippina", but the author of that work, a person of the eighth or ninth century, placed the sixth century Bishop Gregory of Agrigento in the wrong context.[5]
The earliest bishop of certain date is Potamius, who was believed to be a contemporary of Pope Agapetus I (535–36).[6] Other scholars place him in the seventh century, in which case he would not be the earliest Bishop of Agrigento.[5]
The succession of bishops, interrupted by the Saracen invasion (879–1038),[7] began again in 1093 with Gerland of Agrigento.
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Bishops
to 1300
- ...
- Potamius ( ? )
- Theodosius ( ? )
- Gregorius ( ? )
- Eusanius (attested 578 – 590)[8]
- Gregorius (attested 591 – 603)[9]
- Liberius
- Felix
- Hermogenes (c. 800)[10]
- ...
- Gerlandus (1093 – 1104)[11]
- Drago, O.S.B. (1104)
- Guarinus, O.S.B. (1105 – after 1113)[12]
- Albertus (1118 – )[13]
- Gualterius (attested in 1127 – 17 April 1141)[14]
- Rogerius (elected in 1142)
- Gentile (1154–1171)[15]
- Bartolomeo (1171 – 1191)[16]
- Urso (1191 – 1239)[17]
- Rinaldo di Acquaviva (1240 – c. 1264)[18]
- Godefredus Roncioni (1265? – 28 January 1271)[19]
- [Guillelmus Morini] (1271)[20]
- Guido (2 June 1273 – 1276)[21]
- Gobertus (1276 – 23 August 1286)[22]
- Sede Vacante (1286 – 1304)[23]
1300 to 1500
- Bertaldus de Labro (10 January 1304 – 27 March 1326)[24]
- Jacobus Muscus (1326)[25]
- Matteo Orsini, O.P. (20 Oct 1326 – 15 Jun 1327)[26]
- Philippus Hombaldi, O.P. (6 June 1328 – 1350)[27]
- Octavianus de Labro (12 May 1350 – 8 November 1362)[28]
- Matteo de Fugardo (16 March 1362 – after 1390)[29]
- Gilifortis Riccobono (6 March 1392 – 23 October 1395) (Roman Obedience) [30]
- Petrus de Curtibus, O.E.S.A. (2 June 1393 – 1414?) (Avignon Obedience)[31]
- Nicolaus, O.S.B. (1395 – 3 June 1398) (Roman Obedience)[32]
- Nicolaus de Burelli (3 June 1398 – 1400) (Roman Obedience)[33]
- Giovanni Cardella (19 October 1400 – 1401) (Roman Obedience)
- Giovanni de Pino, O.F.M. (1 October 1401 – ?) (Roman Obedience)[34]
- Philippus de Ferrario (4 July 1414 – ?) (Avignon Obedience)[35]
- Laurentius de Messasal, O.Cist. (16 March 1422 – 1442?)[36]
- Matteo da Gimara, O.F.M. (17 Sep 1442 – 1445 Resigned)[37][38]
- Antonio Ponticorona, O.P. (23 Jul 1445 – 1451 Died)[39]
- Domenico Xarth, O. Cist. (10 Jan 1452 – 1471 Died)[40]
- Giovanni de Cardellis (11 December 1472 – February 1479)[41]
- Juan de Castro (20 Mar 1479 – 29 Sep 1506 Died)[42]
1500 to 1818
- Giuliano Cibò (5 October 1506 – 1537)[43]
- Pietro Tagliavia d’Aragonia (28 May 1537 – 10 Oct 1544)[44]
- Cardinal Rodolfo Pio (10 Oct 1544 – 2 May 1564 Died) (Administrator)[45]
- Luigi Suppa, O.P. (13 Apr 1565 – 29 Sep 1569 Died)[46]
- Juan Battista de Ojeda (27 Aug 1571 – 1574 Died)[47]
- Cesare Marullo (14 Jul 1574 – 11 Sep 1577)[48]
- Juan Rojas (9 Oct 1577 – 21 May 1578 Died)[49]
- Antonio Lombardo (bishop) (30 Mar 1579 – 23 Jan 1585)[50]
- Diego Haëdo (23 Jan 1585 – 14 Aug 1589)[51]
- Francesco del Pozzo (1591 – 1593 Died)[52]
- Juan Orozco Covarrubias y Leiva (2 Dec 1594 – 16 Jan 1606)[53]
- Vincenzo Bonincontro, O.P. (25 Jun 1607 – May 1622 Died)[54]
- Ottavio Ridolfi (20 Mar 1623 – 6 Jul 1624 Died)[55]
- Francesco Traina (2 Mar 1627 – Oct 1651 Died)[56]
- Ferdinando Sanchez de Cuellar, O.S.A. (26 May 1653 – 4 Jan 1657)[57]
- Francesco Gisulfo e Osorio (30 Sep 1658 – Dec 1664 Died)[58]
- Ignazio d'Amico (15 Dec 1666 – 15 Dec 1668 Died)[59]
- Francesco Giuseppe Crespos de Escobar (2 May 1672 – 17 May 1674)[60]
- Francesco Maria Rini (Rhini), O.F.M. (19 Oct 1676 – 4 Aug 1696 Died)[61]
- Francesco Ramírez, O.P. (26 Aug 1697 – 27 Aug 1715 Died)[62]
- Anselmo de la Peña, O.S.B. (27 Sep 1723 – 4 Aug 1729)[63]
- Lorenzo Gioeni d'Aragona (11 Dec 1730 – Oct 1754 Died)[64]
- Andrea Lucchesi-Palli (21 Jul 1755 – 4 Oct 1768 Died)[65]
- Antonio Lanza, C.R. (20 Nov 1769 – 24 May 1775 Died)[66]
- Antonio Branciforte Colonna (15 Apr 1776 – 31 Jul 1786 Died)[67]
- Antonino Cavalieri (15 Sep 1788 – 11 Dec 1792 Died)[68]
- Saverio Granata, C.R. (1 Jun 1795 – 29 Apr 1817)[69]
since 1818
- Baldassare Leone (2 Oct 1818 – 22 Jul 1820 Died)
- Pietro Maria d'Agostino (17 Nov 1823 – 18 Jul 1835 Died)
- Ignazio Giuseppe Nicola Epifanio Montemagno, O.F.M. Conv. (2 Oct 1837 – 21 Aug 1839 Died)[70]
- Domenico-Maria-Giuseppe Lo Jacono, C.R. (17 Jun 1844 – 24 Mar 1860 Died)[71]
- Domenico Turano (23 Feb 1872 – 2 Feb 1885 Died)[72]
- Gaetano Blandini (2 Feb 1885 – 19 May 1898 Died)
- Bartolomeo Maria Lagumina (28 Nov 1898 – 5 May 1931 Died)
- Giovanni Battista Peruzzo, C.P. (15 Jan 1932 – 20 Jul 1963 Died)
- Giuseppe Petralia (14 Oct 1963 – 2 May 1980 Resigned)
- Luigi Bommarito (2 May 1980 – 1 Jun 1988) Appointed, Archbishop of Catania
- Carmelo Ferraro (3 Nov 1988 – 1 Dec 2000)
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Archbishops
- Carmelo Ferraro (2 Dec 2000 – 23 Feb 2008 Resigned)
- Cardinal Francesco Montenegro (23 Feb 2008 – 22 May 2021, cardinal from 14 February 2015)[73]
- Alessandro Damiano (22 May 2021[73] – present)
Suffragan sees
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