Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva

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 2015) 172,400 (est.) 170,400 (est.) (98.8%)
Parishes	40
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1248
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta
Co-cathedral	Basilica Concattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta Concattedrale di S. Eustachio
Secular priests	68 (diocesan) 22 (Religious Orders) 11 Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Mario Paciello
Map
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.

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

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.

Erected: 1248
Latin Name: Altamurensis

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

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

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

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