Kehr, p. 351. This is a grant by Bishop Ioannes to Abbot Simon of the monastery of Sma. Trinità de Cava. Alessandro di Meo (1805). Annali Critico-Diplomatici Del Regno Di Napoli Della Mezzana Età (in Italian). Vol. Tomo decimo (10). Naples: Stamperia Orsiniana. p. 47. Carabellese, pp. 17-18. Cappelletti, p. 395. De Palma (1989), 'Contributo...", p. 153 with note 2.
A native of Genoa, Cibo had previously been Provost of Genoa, and then Bishop of Savona (1466–1472). From 1471 to 1473 Cibo was pro-Datary of Pope Sixtus IV. He was then named a Cardinal, and in 1476 served as papal Legate in Rome while the Pope was in Viterbo. He was Governor of Siena, and papal Legate to the Emperor Frederick III and to Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary. He was Chamberlain of the College of Cardinals in 1482 and again in 1484. He resided in Rome, not in Molfetta. Giuseppe Moroni, ed. (1843). Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica (in Italian). Vol. XIX. Venice: Tipografia Emiliana. p. 131. Eubel, II, p. 229.
Cardinal Ponzetti had been named a Cardinal on 1 July 1517. Ughelli, I, p. 918-919. Lorenzo Cardella (1793). Memorie storiche de cardinali della Santa romana chiesa (in Italian). Vol. Tomo quarto. Roma: Pagliarini. pp. 38–39. Eubel, III, pp. 16 no. 22; 241 with notes 4 and 5.
Bishop Ioannes was present at the Lateran Council of Pope Alexander III. J.-D. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus XXII (Venice 1778), pp. 215 and 461. Kehr, p. 351. Kamp, p. 644. De Palma (1989), 'Contributo...", p. 153 with note 4.
Christus Dominus 40. Therefore, in order to accomplish these aims this sacred synod decrees as follows: 1) The boundaries of ecclesiastical provinces are to be submitted to an early review and the rights and privileges of metropolitans are to be defined by new and suitable norms. 2) As a general rule all dioceses and other territorial divisions that are by law equivalent to dioceses should be attached to an ecclesiastical province. Therefore dioceses which are now directly subject to the Apostolic See and which are not united to any other are either to be brought together to form a new ecclesiastical province, if that be possible, or else attached to that province which is nearer or more convenient. They are to be made subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the bishop, in keeping with the norms of the common law. 3) Wherever advantageous, ecclesiastical provinces should be grouped into ecclesiastical regions for the structure of which juridical provision is to be made.
