Roman Catholic Diocese of Teggiano-Policastro

Co-cathedral in Policastro Bussentino

The Italian Latin Catholic Diocese of (Diano-)Teggiano-Policastro (Latin: Dioecesis Dianensis-Policastrensis), in Campania, has existed since 1850, under its present name since 1986. In that year the Diocese of Diano-Teggiano was united with the diocese of Policastro.^[1][2]

The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno.^[1] Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cattedrale di S. Maria Maggiore e S. Michele Arcangelo, in Teggiano.^[2] The current bishop is Antonio De Luca.^[1]

History

On 29 September 1850, Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Diano–Teggiano with the episcopal see at Diano, at the instance of king Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, on territories assembled for its Metropolitan the Archdiocese of Salerno, from the bishopric of Cava and from the see of Capaccio–Diano. He ordered the bishop of Capaccio to fix his residence in the town of Diano; thenceforth the see was to be known as Capaccio and Diano.

But under the second bishop, Domenico Fanello (1858–83), Capaccio was again separated from Diano and united with the Diocese of Vallo, in which town the bishop now resides. In 1882 Diano received the name of Teggiano.^[3]

On 1976.09.08 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Tursi-Lagonegro.

On 1986.09.30 it was renamed as Diocese of Teggiano–Policastro, having gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Policastro, whose name was incorporated while its former cathedral was made a Co-cathedral.

Bishoprics of Bussento and Policastro

Bishopric of Bussento

• Established in the sixth century as Diocese of Bussento (Italian) / Buxentum (Latin) / Buxentin(us) (Latin adjective)
• Suppressed in the seventh century, without direct successor.^[4]

Bishopric of Policastro

• On 24 March 1058 the territory of the defunct bishopric was reassigned to establish the Diocese of Policastro, which became a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salerno
• Suppressed on 30 September 1986, merging title and territory into the thus renamed Diocese of Teggiano-Policastro, where its Marian former cathedral remains the Co-Cathedral: Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.

Residential Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Bussento

• Rustico (501? – 502?)
• Sede vacante (592)
• Sabbazio (649? – ?)

Suffragan Bishops of Policastro

Titular sees

The diocese was nominally restored in 1966 as Latin Titular bishopric of Capo della Foresta (Curiate Italian) / Buxentum (Latin) / Buxentin(us) (Latin adjective).^[5]

It has had the following incumbent Titular bishops of Capo della Foresta, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

• Francisco Cedzich, Divine Word Missionaries (S.V.D.) (born Poland) (1968.05.11 – death 1971.12.23) as Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Alto Paraná (Paraguay) (1968.05.11 – 1971.12.23)
• Desiderio Elso Collino (1972.01.21 – 1972.11.07) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Rosario (Argentina) (1972.01.21 – 1972.11.07); later Bishop of Lomas de Zamora (Argentina) (1972.11.07 – retired 2001.04.24), died 2002
• José María Márquez Bernal, Claretians (C.M.F.) (1973.10.10 – resigned 1977.11.03) as Bishop-Prelate of Humahuaca (Argentina) (1973.10.10 – retired 1991.02.20), died 1995
• Dominic J. Khumalo, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1978.02.27 – death 2006.04.27) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Durban (South Africa) (1978.02.27 – retired 1999.03.02) and as emeritus
• Joseph Karikkassery (2006.11.25 – 2010.12.18) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Verapoly (India) (2006.11.25 – 2010.12.18); later Bishop of Kottapuram (India) (2010.12.18 – ...)
• Eugenio Andrés Lira Rugarcía (2011.02.24 – 2016.09.22) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico) (2011.02.24 – 2016.09.22) and Secretary General of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.) (2012.11.14 – 2016.04.06); later Bishop of Matamoros (Mexico) (2016.09.22 – ...)
• Carlos Tomás Morel Diplán (2016.12.14 – ...), as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic) (2016.12.14 – ...)

In 1970 was shortly established a duplicated Latin Titular bishopric of Buxentum (Latin), which was suppressed already in 1974, having had a single incumbent, not of the fitting Episcopal - but of (higher) Archiepiscopal rank :

• Titular Archbishop Miho Pušic (1970.06.06 – 1972.05.10) as emeritate; previously Bishop of Hvar–Brač–Vis (Croatia) (1926.06.21 – 1970.06.06) and Archbishop ad personam (1940.12.19 – 1970.06.06).

Bishops

Suffragan Bishops of Diano-Teggiano

• Valentino Vignone (1851.02.17 – death 1857.11.01)
• Domenico Fanelli (1858.09.27 – death 1883.08.14)
• Vincenzo Addessi (1884.03.24 – death 1905)
• Camillo Tiberio (1906.11.10 – death 1915)
• Oronzo Caldarola (1915.11.27 – 1954.11.27); emeritate as Titular Bishop of Utica (1954.11.27 – death 1963.02.06)
• Felicissimo Stefano Tinivella, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1955.03.09 – 1961.09.11);^[6]
• Aldo Forzoni (1961.11.30 – 1970.04.23)^[7]
• Umberto Luciano Altomare (1970.08.23 – death 1986.02.03), also Bishop of Policastro (Italy) (1980.09.16 – 1986.02.03);^[8]

Suffragan Bishops of Teggiano–Policastro

• Bruno Schettino (1987.02.11 – 1997.04.29), later Archbishop of Capua (Italy) (1997.04.29 – death 2012.09.21)
• Francesco Pio Tamburrino, O.S.B. Subl. (1998.02.14 – 1999.04.27),^[9]
• Angelo Spinillo (2000.03.18 – 2011.01.15), later remained Apostolic Administrator of Teggiano–Policastro (2011.01.15 – 2011.11.26),^[10]
• Antonio Maria De Luca, C.SS.R. (2011.11.26 – ...)

Bibliography

• Antonio Tortorella, Breve cronografia ragionata della diocesi di Teggiano-Policastro, Annuario diocesano 2004-2005, pp. 25–32
• Cronotassi dei vescovi di Policastro (from Luigi Tancredi, Policastro Bussentino, La Buona Stampa, Naples, 1978)
• Rocco Gaetani, L'antica Bussento, oggi Policastro Bussentino e la sua prima sede episcopale, in Gli studi in Italia, V (1882), pp. 366–383
• Francesco Lanzoni, Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604), vol. I, Faenza 1927, p. 323
• Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia della loro origine sino ai nostri giorni', vol. XX, Venice 1866, pp. 361–362 e 367–377
• Vincenzio d'Avino, Cenni storici sulle chiese arcivescovili, vescovili e prelatizie (nullius) del Regno delle Due Sicilie, Naples 1848, pp. 537–539
• Ferdinando Ughelli, Italia sacra, vol. VII, second edition, Venice 1721, coll. 542-560
• Paul Fridolin Kehr, Italia Pontificia, vol. VIII, Berlin 1935, pp. 371–372
• Norbert Kamp, Kirche und Monarchie im staufischen Königreich Sizilien. Prosopographische Grundlegung. Bistümer und Bischöfe des Königreichs 1194-1266. 1. Abruzzen und Kampanien, Munich 1973, pp. 470–476
• Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, pp. 912–913
• Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1, p. 404; vol. 2, pp. 217–218; vol. 3, p. 277; vol. 4, pp. 283–284; vol. 5, pp. 318–319; vol. 6, p. 343

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Italy

References

Sources and External links

• GCatholic with incumbent bio links

 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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