Suburbicarian diocese

The suburbicarian dioceses are some of the oldest dioceses of the Latin Church in the vicinity of Rome, the head of the Pope were on hand in the management of the whole Church.

History and Function

For these bishops developed in the course of church history, the class of cardinal bishops. The suburbicarian bishoprics were all suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Rome. The bishops of the dioceses were under suburbicarian so the Bishop of Rome ( Pope ) in his capacity as the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province. The number and the names of these dioceses were subject to minor historical fluctuations. For example, the bishopric of Ostia - Velletri was divided by the Motu proprio Edita a Nobis by Pope Pius X on May 5, 1914.

The highest rank among them takes time immemorial, the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, a (ex officio Cardinal Dean ), which ( in the rare case that the chosen Pope has not received episcopal ordination ) the privilege belongs, the chosen Pope as principal consecrator episcopal ordination to donate.

With the motu proprio Suburbicariis sedibus from April 11th, 1962 severed Pope John XXIII. the management of the suburbicarian dioceses institutionally by the cardinal bishops and determined that the suburbicarian dioceses should protrude own diocesan bishops with full jurisdiction in the future. Although it remained formally exist, the diocese of Ostia was, however, never since occupied by a diocesan bishop, but ordered the Cardinal Dean in personal union with the Apostolic Administrator and adopted by the Vicariatus Urbis the rest of the leadership of the diocese.

However, the cardinal bishops take still formally owned by their respective diocese, but are no longer involved in the administration of the diocese.

List

Currently, there are seven dioceses suburbicarian:

  • Ostia ( titular church of Cardinal Dean that this addition to its original title is replaced suburbicarian ) ( Cardinal Dean Angelo Sodano )
  • Albano (cardinal bishop Angelo Sodano )
  • Frascati (cardinal bishop: Tarcisio Bertone SDB)
  • Palestrina (or Preneste ) ( cardinal bishop José Saraiva Martins CMF)
  • Porto- Santa Rufina (cardinal bishop Roger Etchegaray )
  • Sabina -Poggio Mirteto ( Cardinal Bishop Giovanni Battista Re)
  • Velletri - Segni ( Cardinal Bishop Francis Arinze )

The six non- oriental cardinal bishops of the Roman Catholic Church have called on these dioceses according to canon law, the patronage and are often used as its titular.

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