My favorite websites
Over the years, I have visited many
websites which present information relevant to my work on the episcopate. The following sites are my favorites due to
the depth and breadth of the information they provide and the scholarship and
attention to detail which their creators continue to provide.
The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
This website is the creation of Salvador
Miranda who is, in my estimation, the premier expert on the College of
Cardinals. The author provides an encyclopedic presentation on the College of
Cardinals and the men who have been called to membership in it. This site is
constantly updated and provides visitors with information-rich catalogues on
various aspects of the College of Cardinals.
I visit this site daily.
Catholic-Hierarchy.org
The creator/webmaster of this site is David
Cheney. He presents his visitors with a
constantly growing database on the dioceses, bishops and other ordinaries of
the Roman Catholic Church. With more than 5,200 living bishops and thousands
more who have passed on, this website needs the constant updating which its
webmaster provides on a daily basis. It is a daunting task, for the
appointment, ordination, transfer, and death of every bishop necessitates an
update to the site. This is also a site which I visit every day.
Katholische Bischöfe in China
This website is the creation of Andreas
Brender, an expert on the Roman Catholic bishops of China. It is an excellent
website, providing biographical details of the bishops of China from the
nomination of the first bishop up to the present, including the photos or
portraits of many of the bishops. This site is a goldmine of information and I
visit it often.
Die Apostolische Nachfolge
http://www.apostolische-nachfolge.de/titel
This website, created and maintained by
Martin Wolters, provides an excellent overview to the structures of the Roman
Catholic Church and its cardinals and bishops around the world, as well as the
organisms of the Roman Curia and the major superiors of these dicasteries. It
also provides information on the apostolic nunciatures and delegations
maintained by the Holy See and their respective occupants. One can also find
chronological lists of the nominations of bishops and cardinals from 1882 to
the present and similar chronologies of their deaths from 1881 to the present.
One section of the site is devoted to clandestine bishops appointed and
ordained in various countries where the Church has undergone persecution from
the twentieth century to the present. I always find something new and
interesting when I visit this site.
Den Katolske Kirke
Organisasjon
This website provides links to hundreds of
the dioceses and other territorial jurisdictions of the Roman Catholic Church
around the world. Created and maintained by Mats Tande, this site provides a
readily accessible resource when one is looking for the website of a particular
diocese. While the primary website is in Norwegian, readers are provided
explanatory links in English, German, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, and
French. This is an excellent resource
for the links to diocesan websites worldwide.
I use this site frequently.
The Order of Saint Benedict
This website is dedicated to providing
information and resources on the Order of Saint Benedict. If you have an interest
in the Benedictines, this is the first site to visit. Information on current
activities of the various Benedictine congregations can be found by accessing
the “What’s new” tab on the homepage.
Other
interesting websites
Monsignor
Mercurio Maria Teresi http://www.monsignorteresi.it/ is
dedicated to the cause of the beatification and canonization of Archbishop
Mercurio Maria Teresi, Archbishop of Monreale, Sicily, from 1802 to 1805. The
life and works of this good prelate provide excellent reading.
Archbishop Teresi was ordained Archbishop of Monreale on 13 June
1802 in the Cathedral of Monreale by Bishop Francesco Vanni, Bishop of Cefalù,
assisted by Archbishop Alfonso Airoldi, Titular Archbishop of Heraclea in
Europa, and Bishop Gabriele Maria Gravina, Titular Bishop of Flavias. I wish to
express my since thanks to Monsignor Saverio Ferina, Director of the Diocesan
Historical Archives of the Archdiocese of Monreale, who was responsible for
providing the information concerning Archbishop Teresi’s episcopal ordination
as well as similar information concerning the episcopal ordination of
Archbishop Teresi’s successor, Archbishop Domenico Benedetto Balsamo, O.S.B. To
Monsignor Ferina: cordial saluti e tante
grazie!
