Diocese of Civita-Tempio

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Civita(-Tempio) was a Latin Catholic bishopric in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia (Tyrrhenian Sea, southwestern Italy).

It was heir to the Ancient diocese of P(h))ausania (Italian Fausania) (6th to 8th? century), when restored in 1070 as Diocese of Gallura, in 1113 renamed after its see as Diocese of Civita, in 1839 renamed as Diocese of Civita–Tempio, until its 1986 formal suppression, merged into the Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias (effectively absorbing the Diocese of Ampurias, which it had been held in personal union with since 1506).

No later then the sixth century, a Roman bishopric was established ad a place called P(h)ausania, which may be Olbia, Tempio Pausania or even Posada (50 km south of Olbia).

While local Saint Simplicius is traditionally revered as its 4th century founding first bishop, a historical thesis holds it may have been (re?)founded by Catholic bishop(s) exiled by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom after his council of Carthage replaced them with Donatist heretic counterparts, only to be abandoned again due to the 552 invasion of the Ostrogoths under king Totila.

Its first historical mention is in 594, when Pope Gregory the Great invites its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Cagliari, to nominate a candidate for the vacant see. Its first documented incumbent, bishop Victor, was mentioned in a papal letter in 599, recalling his work to evanglize the pagan locals, and attended a synod in Rome in 600.

The see of Phausania is still listed in the Byzantine Notitia Episcopatuum until circa 1000; but this may well have been a refusal to canonically acknowledge the diocese being effectively wiped much earlier, plausibly in the 8th century by Arab invaders.

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