Roman Catholic Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea

Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea Dioecesis Locrensis-Hieracensis
Co-cathedral in Tropea
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Reggio Calabria-Bova
Statistics
Area	943 km2 (364 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 166,000 160,000 (96.4%)
Parishes	131
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	11th century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta in Cielo (Mileto)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Nicotera) Concattedrale di Maria SS. di Romania (Tropea)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Luigi Renzo
Map
Website
www.diocesimileto.it/

The Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Calabria, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year the historical Diocese of Mileto was united with the Diocese of Nicotera-Tropea. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova.^[1][2]

History

Mileto was made an episcopal see by Pope Gregory VII in 1073. The earthquake of 1783 destroyed the cathedral, built by Count Roger, who also built the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity and St. Michael for Greek Basilian monks.

Pope Callixtus II united the diocese of Mileto with the diocese of Tauriana and diocese of Vibona, the latter destroyed by the Saracens. The first bishop was Arnolfo; after him were

• Godfrey (1094), under whom the see became immediately subject to Rome;
• Cardinal Corrado Caracciolo (1402);
• Cardinal Astorgio Agnensi (1411);
• Antonio Sorbilli (1435), who founded the seminary in 1440;
• Felice Centini (1611), afterwards a cardinal;
• Gregorio Ponziani (1640), charged with a mission to England by Pope Urban VIII.^[3]

Bishops

Diocese of Mileto

Erected: 11th Century
Latin Name: Miletensis
Immediately Subject to the Holy See

• Corrado Caracciolo (2 Oct 1402 - 1409 Appointed, Administrator of Orvieto)
• Antonio Scorbillo (26 Jul 1437 - 1463 Died)
• Giacomo della Rovere (18 Aug 1480 - 6 Mar 1504 Appointed, Bishop of Savona)
• Francesco Alidosi (6 Mar 1504 - 26 Mar 1505 Appointed, Bishop of Pavia)
• Francesco della Rovere (1505 - 23 Feb 1508 Appointed, Bishop of Camerino)
• Andrea della Valle (23 Feb 1508 - 26 Nov 1523 Resigned)^[4]
• Quinzio Rustici (26 Nov 1523 - 1566 Died)
• Iñigo Avalos de Aragón, O.S. (19 Aug 1566 - 9 Feb 1573 Resigned)
• Giovan Mario de Alessandris (9 Feb 1573 - 1585 Died)
• Marco Antonio del Tufo (21 Oct 1585 - 1606 Died)
• Giambattista Leni (4 Jul 1608 - 3 Aug 1611 Appointed, Bishop of Ferrara)
• Felice Centini, O.F.M. Conv. (31 Aug 1611 - 23 Sep 1613 Appointed, Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino)
• Virgilio Cappone (13 Nov 1613 - 1631 Died)
• Maurizio Centini, O.F.M. Conv. (12 May 1631 - 14 Nov 1639 Died)^[5]
• Gregorio Panzani, C.O. (13 Aug 1640 - 25 Jun 1660 Died)
• Diego Castiglione Morelli (26 Jun 1662 - 17 May 1680 Died)
• Ottavio Paravicino (12 May 1681 - 26 Sep 1695 Died)
• Domenico Antonio Bernardini (18 Jun 1696 - Jan 1723 Died)
• Ercole Michele d'Aragona (12 May 1723 - 27 Sep 1734 Appointed, Bishop of Aversa)
• Marcello Filomarini (27 Sep 1734 - 13 Mar 1756 Died)
• Giuseppe Maria Carafa, C.R. (19 Jul 1756 - 10 Feb 1785 Resigned)
• Enrico Capece Minutolo, C.O. (18 Jun 1792 Confirmed - 6 May 1824 Died)
• Vincenzo-Maria Armentano, O.P. (12 Jul 1824 Confirmed - 15 Aug 1846 Died)
• Filippo Mincione (12 Apr 1847 Confirmed - 29 Apr 1882 Died)
• Luigi Carvelli (3 Jul 1882 - 1 Jun 1888 Died)
• Antonio Maria de Lorenzo (11 Feb 1889 - 28 Nov 1898 Resigned)
• Giuseppe Moràbito (15 Dec 1898 - 4 Jul 1922 Resigned)
• Paolo Albera (9 May 1924 - 27 Oct 1943 Died)
• Enrico Nicodemo (22 Jan 1945 - 11 Nov 1952 Appointed, Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa))
• Vincenzo De Chiara (30 Apr 1953 - 5 Mar 1979 Retired)
• Domenico Tarcisio Cortese, O.F.M. (15 Jun 1979 - 28 Jun 2007 Retired)

Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea

30 September 1986: United with the suppressed Diocese of Nicotera e Tropea

• Luigi Renzo (28 Jun 2007 - )

References

Bibliography

Reference works

• Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz.  p. 896-897; 906; 937-938. (Use with caution; obsolete)
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.  p. 340-341; 366; 500. (in Latin)
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.  p.  192; 203; 257.
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.  pp. 244, 258, 319-320.
• Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06.  p.  242; 260; 347.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.  p.  267; 289-290; 392.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.  p.  288; 310-311; 419.

Studies

• Capialbi, Vito (1835). Memorie per servire alla Storia della Santa Chiesa Miletese Compilate da Vito Capialbi (in Italian). Napoli: Tipogr. Porcelli. 
• Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1870). Le chiese d'Italia: dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). vigesimo primo (21). Venezia: G. Antonelli. pp. 212–225. 
• Luzzi, Vincenzo Maria; Caprino, Nazzarino (1989). I vescovi di Mileto (in Italian). Mileto: Pro-Loco. 
• Taccone-Gallucci, Domenico (1881). Monografia della città e diocesi di Mileto (in Italian). Napoli: tip. degli Accattoncelli. 

acknowledgment

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Mileto". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

Coordinates: 38°37′00″N 16°04′00″E / 38.6167°N 16.0667°E / 38.6167; 16.0667