Roman Catholic Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti

Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti Dioecesis Altamurensis-Gravinensis-Aquavievensis
Cathedral in Altamura
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Bari-Bitonto
Statistics
Area	1,309 km2 (505 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 168,658 163,735 (97.1%)
Parishes	40
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1248 (768 years ago)
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta
Co-cathedral	Basilica Concattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta Concattedrale di S. Eustachio
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Mario Paciello
www.diocesidialtamura.it

The Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti (Latin: Dioecesis Altamurensis-Gravinensis-Aquavievensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Apulia, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year, the territorial prelature of Altamura e Acquaviva delle Fonti was united with the diocese of Gravina. The present diocese is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto.^[1][2]

The seat of the bishop is at Altamura Cathedral, with Acquaviva Cathedral and Gravina Cathedral as co-cathedrals.

History

Altamura was once a territorial prelature: an archipresbyterate, declared exempt from episcopal jurisdiction by Pope Innocent IV in 1248, and again by Pope Innocent VIII (1484–92). Acquaviva delle Fonti, a town of the Campagna, was declared similarly exempt by Pope Pius IX and united with Altamura on 17 August 1848.^[3]

Ordinaries

Territorial Prelature of Altamura

Erected: 1248
Latin Name: Altamurensis

• Luigi Marcello Pellegrini (1879-1894 Died)
• Carlo Caputo (1897-1904 Appointed, Apostolic Nuncio to Germany)
• Tommaso Cirielli (1899-1902 Died)
• Carlo Giuseppe Cecchini, O.P. (1904-1909 Appointed, Archbishop of Taranto)
• Adolfo Verrienti (1910-1929 Resigned)
• Domenico Dell'Aquila (1932-1942 Died)
• Giuseppe Della Cioppa (1943-1947 Appointed, Bishop of Alife)

Territorial Prelature of Altamura ed Acquaviva delle Fonti

Name Changed: 17 August 1848
Latin Name: Altamurensis et Aquavievensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Bari-Canosa

• Salvatore Rotolo, S.D.B. (1948-1962 Retired)
• Antonio D'Erchia (1962-1964 Appointed, Apostolic Administrator of Conversano)
• Salvatore Isgró (1975-1982 Appointed, Archbishop of Sassari)
• Tarcisio Pisani, O.M. (1982-1986 Appointed, Bishop of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti)

Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti

30 September 1986: United with the Diocese of Gravina
Latin Name: Altamurensis-Gravinensis-Aquavievensis

• Agostino Superbo (1994-1997 Resigned)
• Mario Paciello (1997-2013 Retired)
• Giovanni Ricchiuti (2013-)

Notes

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "^{article name needed}". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

Co-cathedrals: Gravina Cathedral (left) Acquaviva Cathedral (right)

Coordinates: 40°49′00″N 16°33′00″E / 40.8167°N 16.5500°E / 40.8167; 16.5500