Diocese of Ales-Terralba Dioecesis Uxellensis-Terralbensis | |
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Ales Cathedral | |
Location | |
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Ecclesiastical province | Oristano |
Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Oristano |
Statistics | |
Area | 1,494 km2 (577 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2012) 99,598 99,336 (99.7%) |
Parishes | 57 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 7th Century |
Cathedral | Cattedrale di Ss. Pietro e Paolo (Ales) |
Co-cathedral | Concattedrale di S. Pietro Apostolo (Terralba) |
Secular priests | 70 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Roberto Carboni, O.F.M. Conv. |
Bishops emeritus | Giovanni Dettori |
Website | |
www.diocesialesterralba.va.it |
The Diocese of Ales-Terralba ( Latin: Dioecesis Uxellensis-Terralbensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in Sardinia, Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Oristano. [1]
Gregory the Great alludes to the episcopal see of Ales (anciently Uselli), in his letter to Januarius of Cagliari in 591. After this nothing is to be found about it until 1147, when the name of Bishop Rello appears in a diploma. The local traditions of Terralba have preserved the memory of a Bishop Mariano, who erected the cathedral about 1144.
The diocese of Ales and the diocese of Terralba were united by Pope Julius II, in 1503. [2]
It would appear that a process has begun to permanently unite the diocese of Ales-Terralba and the archdiocese of Oristano. The Bishop of Ales-Terralba, Roberto Carboni, O.F.M. Conv., was promoted on 4 May 2019 to be Archbishop of Oristano and on the same date was appointed Apostolic Administrator of his former diocese of Ales-Terralba. [3] However, on 3 July 2021, without losing his position as Archbishop of Oristano, he was reappointed Bishop of Ales-Terralba. The announcement specifies that this act unifies the two dioceses in persona Episcopi ('in the person of the Bishop'). [4]
Erected: 7th Century
Diocese of Ales united with
Diocese of Terralba: 8 December 1503
Latin Name: Uxellensis et Terralbensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Oristano
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "
Ales and Terralba".
Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.