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Roman Catholic Diocese of Lanusei

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Parishes
  
34

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Area
  
2,348 km²

Cathedral
  
Lanusei Cathedral

Denomination
  
Catholic Church

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
Italy

Emeritus bishop
  
Antioco Piseddu

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Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2004)69,12968,943 (99.7%)

Established
  
8 November 1824 (192 years ago)

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cagliari

The Italian Catholic Diocese of Lanusei (Latin: Dioecesis Oleastrensis) is in Sardinia; before 1986 it was the diocese of Ogliastra. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Cagliari.

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History

Ogliastra was formerly under the Archbishop of Cagliari. Pope Leo XII, at the petition of King Charles Felix of Sardinia, by a bull of 11 November, 1824, erected Ogliastra into a diocese, suffragan of Cagliari, with the Capuchin Serafino Carchero for its first bishop.

Tortoli, the episcopal seat, was in the district of Lanusei. Other bishops were:

  • Giuseppe Paderi
  • Emanuele Virgilio, previously Vicar-General of the diocese of Venosa.

    • Ordinaries

  • Serafino Matteo Ignazio Marie Carchero (Serafino Carchero), O.F.M. Cap. (20 Dec 1824 - 20 Jan 1834 Confirmed, Bishop of Bisarchio o Bisarcio)
  • Vincenzo Fois (Vincentius Fois) (19 May 1837 - 3 Aug 1838 Resigned)
  • Giorgio Manurrita (13 Sep 1838 - 4 Dec 1844 Died)
  • Michele Todde Valeri, Sch. P. (14 Apr 1848 - 22 Dec 1851 Died)
  • Paolo Giuseppe Maria Serci Serra (24 Nov 1871 - 25 Sep 1882 Appointed, Archbishop of Oristano)
  • Antonio Maria Contini (25 Sep 1882 - 16 Jan 1893 Appointed, Bishop of Ampurias e Tempio)
  • Salvatore Depau-Puddu (12 Jun 1893 - 12 Dec 1899 Died)
  • Giuseppe Paderi (28 Mar 1900 - 30 Oct 1906 Died)
  • Emanuele Virgilio (15 Apr 1910 - 27 Jan 1923 Died)
  • Antonio Tommaso Videmari (2 Mar 1923 - 13 Feb 1925 Resigned)
  • Giuseppe Miglior (15 Jul 1927 - 6 May 1936 Died)
  • Lorenzo Basoli (28 Oct 1936 - 4 Jul 1970 Died)
  • Salvatore Delogu (2 Feb 1974 - 8 Jan 1981 Appointed, Bishop of Valva e Sulmona)
  • Antioco Piseddu (29 Sep 1981 - 31 Jan 2014 Retired)
  • Antonio Mura (31 Jan 2014 Appointed - )

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Lanusei Wikipedia
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