Roman Catholic Diocese of San Severo

Diocese of San Severo Dioecesis Sancti Severi
San Severo Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Foggia-Bovino
Statistics
Area	1,270 km2 (490 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 158,700 120,000 (75.6%)
Parishes	34
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	16th century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta
Secular priests	53
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Giovanni Checchinato
Website
www.diocesisansevero.it

The Italian Catholic Diocese of San Severo (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Severi) is in Apulia. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino.^[1]

History

The diocese of San Severo was established in 1580 as a continuation or replacement of that of Civitate, a town now called San Paolo di Civitate, close to the ruins of Teanum Apulum.

Among the bishops of Civitate were:

• Fra Lorenzo da Viterbo, O.P. (1330), a theologian;
• Luca Gaurico (1545), an astronomer;
• Francesco Alciati (1561), later a cardinal.

In 1580 the first occupant of the see of San Severo was Martino de Martini, a Jesuit; other bishops are:

• Fabrizio Verallo (1606), nuncio in Switzerland, later a cardinal;
• Francesco Venturi (1625), a canonist and defender of the rights of the Church;
• Orazio Fortunato (1670), who restored the cathedral;
• Carlo Felice de Matta (1678)
• Carlo Francesco Giocoli (1703)
• Fra Adeodato Summantico (1720), an Augustinian.

To this diocese was later added the territory of the ancient Dragonara, a city built in 1005 by the Byzantine Governor of Apulia. Cappelletti gives the names of twenty-eight bishops between 1061 and 1657.^[2]

Notes

 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°41′42″N 15°22′45″E / 41.6951°N 15.3793°E / 41.6951; 15.3793