 On 25 March 1162, therefore, Pope Alexander issued the bull "Superna et ineffabilis".He confirmed the metroplitanate of Genoa, with its suffragan bishops of Mariana, Nebbio, and Accia (on Sardinia); Bobbio, and Brugnato, and ordered that the archbishop should be consecrated by his suffragans.He also granted the archbishop a legateship over the island of Sardinia, to be exercised every eight years in association with a Roman cardinal.