Roman Catholic Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo

Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina
Alife Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Naples
Statistics
Area	580 km^2 (220 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2015) 70,800 (est.) 68,500 (est.) (96.8%)
Parishes	44
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	5th Century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Alife)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta (Caiazzo)
Secular priests	53 (diocesan) 9 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Valentino Di Cerbo
Website
www.diocesi-alife-caiazzo.it

The Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo (Latin: Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Campania, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year the historic Diocese of Alife was united with the Diocese of Caiazzo. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Naples.^[1][2]

In 2014 the diocese had one priest for every 1,104 Catholics.

History

The old diocese of Alife was made up of twelve communes in the province of Caserta, Archbishopric of Benevento. The name of a Bishop of Alife appears for the first time among the signatories of the Roman Synod of 499, in the time of Pope Symmachus (Clarus episcopus Ecclesiœ Allifanœ subscripsi); see "Monumenta Germaniæ Historica," auct. Antiquiss., XII, 400.^[3]

Bishops

Diocese of Alife

Erected: 5th Century
Latin Name: Aliphanus
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Benevento

• Giovanni Zefra (6 Sep 1486 - 1504 Died)^[4]
• Angelo Sacco (15 Apr 1504 - 1529 Died)^[5]
• Bernardino Fumarelli (16 Aug 1529 - 13 Nov 1532 Appointed, Bishop of Valva e Sulmona)
• Miguel Torcella (13 Nov 1532 - 6 Apr 1541 Appointed, Bishop of Anagni)
• Ippolito Marsigli (6 Apr 1541 - 1546 Died)^[6]
• Sebastiano Antonio Pighini (27 Aug 1546 - 4 Jun 1548 Appointed, Bishop of Ferentino)
• Filippo Angelo Seragli, O.S.B. (4 Jun 1548 - 1557 Died)
• Antonio Agustín (15 Dec 1557 - 8 Aug 1561 Appointed, Bishop of Lérida)
• Diego Gilberto Nogueras (8 Aug 1561 - 1566 Died)^[7]
• Angelo Rossi (bishop) (31 Jan 1567 - 1568 Died)^[8]
• Giovanni Battista Santorio (19 Nov 1568 - 8 Jan 1586 Appointed, Bishop of Tricarico)^[9]
• Enrico Cini (Siculus), O.F.M. Conv. (8 Jan 1586 - 1598 Died)
• Modesto Gavazzi, O.F.M. Conv. (7 Aug 1598 - Aug 1608 Died)^[10]
• Nelerius Seta, O.S.M. (24 Nov 1608 - 1625 Died)
• Gerolamo Maria Zambeccari, O.P. (7 Apr 1625 - 11 Apr 1633 Appointed, Bishop of Minervino Murge)
• Giovanni Michele Rossi, O.C.D. (11 Apr 1633 - 25 Dec 1638 Died)
• Pietro Paolo Medici (11 Apr 1639 - Oct 1657 Died)
• Henri Borghi, O.S.M. (25 Feb 1658 - Nov 1658 Died)
• Sebastiano Dossena, B. (21 Apr 1659 - 1664 Died)
• Domenico Caracciolo (bishop) (31 Mar 1664 - 14 Oct 1673 Died)^[11]
• Giuseppe de Lazzara (23 Mar 1676 - 2 Mar 1702 Died)
• Angelo Maria Porfiri (Porfirius) (5 Mar 1703 - 23 Jul 1730 Died)
• Gaetano Iovone (11 Dec 1730 - 31 Oct 1733 Died)
• Pietro Abbondio Battiloro (18 Dec 1733 - 17 Oct 1735 Died)
• Egidio Antonio Isabelli (2 Dec 1735 - 3 Jan 1752 Died)
• Carlo Rosati (20 Mar 1752 - 17 Feb 1753 Died)
• Innocenzo Sanseverino (12 Mar 1753 - 29 Dec 1756 Resigned)
• Filippo Sanseverino (3 Jan 1757 - 26 Jan 1762 Resigned)
• Francesco Ferdinando Sanseverino, C.P.O. (29 Jan 1770 - 15 Apr 1776 Confirmed, Archbishop of Palermo)
• Emilio Gentile (15 Jul 1776 - 24 Feb 1822 Died)
• Raffaele Longobardi (19 Apr 1822 - 23 Sep 1822 Died)
• Giovanni Battista de Martino di Pietradoro (3 May 1824 - 1 May 1826 Died)
• Carlo Puoti (3 Jul 1826 - 14 Mar 1848 Died)
• Gennaro di Giacomo (22 Dec 1848 - 1 Jul 1878 Died)
• Luigi Barbato Pasca di Magliano (1 Jul 1878 - 8 Dec 1879 Died)
• Girolamo Volpe (27 Feb 1880 - 9 Aug 1885 Died)
• Antonio Scotti (15 Jan 1886 - 24 Mar 1898 Resigned)
• Settimio Caracciolo di Torchiarolo (24 Mar 1898 - 10 Apr 1911 Appointed, Bishop of Aversa)
• Felice del Sordo (12 Oct 1911 - 7 Jul 1928 Died)
• Luigi Noviello (29 Jul 1930 - 20 Sep 1947 Died)
• Giuseppe Della Cioppa (2 Dec 1947 - 1 Apr 1953 Resigned)
• Virginio Dondeo (29 May 1953 - 22 Jul 1961 Appointed, Bishop of Orvieto)
• Raffaele Pellecchia (1 Sep 1961 - 19 Mar 1967 Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of Sorrento)
• Angelo Campagna (8 Apr 1978 - 10 Dec 1990 Died)

Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo

United: 30 September 1986 with the Diocese of Caiazzo
Latin Name: Aliphanus-Caiacensis o Caiatinus

• Nicola Comparone (10 Dec 1990 - 5 Jan 1998 Died)
• Pietro Farina (16 Feb 1999 - 25 Apr 2009 Appointed, Bishop of Caserta)
• Valentino Di Cerbo (6 Mar 2010 - )

Notes

1. "Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 9, 2016
2. "Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 29, 2016
3. Catholic Encyclopedia article
4. "Bishop Giovanni Zefra" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 25, 2016
5. "Bishop Angelo Sacco" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 25, 2016
6. "Bishop Ippolito Marsigli" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 25, 2016
7. "Bishop Diego Gilberto Nogueras" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 25, 2016
8. "Bishop Angelo Rossi" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 25, 2016
9. "Bishop Giovanni Battista Santorio" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 29, 2016
10. "Bishop Modesto Gavazzi, O.F.M. Conv." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 25, 2016
11. "Bishop Domenico Caracciolo" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 25, 2016

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

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