Salvatore Alepus
| Salvatore Alepus | |
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| Church | Catholic |
| Archdiocese | Sassari |
| Installed | January 29, 1524 |
| Term ended | 1568 |
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| Birth name | Salvatore Alepus |
| Born | 1503 Morella, Castellón |
| Died | 1568 Sassari, Sardinia |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Gabriel and Catherine Manca-Pilo |
Salvatore Alepus (or Salvator Salapusj) (Morella, Castellón, 1503 - Sardinia, 1568) was a Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop, who ruled the archdiocese of Sassari in the sixteenth century.
He was the son of the nobles Gabriel and Catherine Manca-Pilo. He was educated at Valencia, and was still quite young when he received the title of Archbishop of Sassari on January 29, 1524. In 1532, he became embroiled in a trial, based on suspicion of being the murderer of a priest sent to Sardinia by Cardinal Alessandro Cesarini. He received the Pallium, an ecclesiastical vestment, in 1539.
The reluctance of local clergy to accept the young prelate may have been shown when they immediately surrounded him with a court of scholars, lawyers, and artists, including: the poets Angelo Simone Figo, Gavino Sugner, Gavino Sassurello, Gerolamo Araolla, Pietro Delitala and Gerolamo Delitala Vidin; Antonio Lo Frasso, writer and poet; Pier Michele Giagaraccio, scholar, lawyer, professor, and poet; Giovanni Francesco Fara, historian and jurist; Geronimo Olives, a lawyer; Giovanni del Giglio, a painter; and Alessio Fontana, a lawyer and secretary of the emperor.
Among the causes of discontent in the Alepus' curia was the question of royal patronage, which had changed the relationship between secular and ecclesiastical power. The conflict between the chapters and the archbishop lasted throughout his long episcopate, resulting in a formal lawsuit against the bishop on November 18, 1550.
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