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 2006) 70,500 70,200 (99.6%)
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)
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]

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]

Ordinaries

Diocese of Alife

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

• Giovanni Zefra (6 Sep 1486 - 1504 Died)
• Angelo Sacco (15 Apr 1504 - 1529 Died)
• 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)
• 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)
• Angelo Rossi (bishop) (31 Jan 1567 - 1568 Died)
• Giovanni Battista Santorio (19 Nov 1568 - 8 Jan 1586 Appointed, Bishop of Tricarico)^[4]
• Enrico Cini (Siculus), O.F.M. Conv. (8 Jan 1586 - 1598 Died)
• Modesto Gavazzi, O.F.M. Conv. (7 Aug 1598 - Aug 1608 Died)
• 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)
• 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 Battista Santorio" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 29, 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.

Coordinates: 41°19′44″N 14°19′44″E / 41.3289°N 14.3289°E