on 14 september 1904, the consistorial congregation of the papal curia issued a decree, which had been approved by pope pius x, elevating the diocese of ancona-numantia to the rank of archiepiscopal see, without any suffragans and with the status and geographical definition of the diocese unchanged. the decree also granted the archbishops the use of the "pallium" and the archiepiscopal cross, but only within the confines of their own diocese. cardinal achille manara was continued as head of the archdiocese.