Roman Catholic Diocese of Trivento

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Trivento (Latin: Dioecesis Triventinus) is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan archdiocese of Campobasso-Boiano, in the ecclesiastical region of Abruzzo-Molise, southern Italy.^{[1] [2]}

The cathedral episcopal see is Cattedrale di Ss. Nazario, Celso e Vittore, dedicated to the diocesan patron saints St. Nazarius, St. Celsus and St. Victor, at Trivento, Campobasso province, in Molise administrative region.
The other major sanctuary is at Canneto, in the commune Roccavivara, founded in the fourth century and until the tenth dependent on Montecassino.

History

TO ELABORATE

According to local legend the earliest bishop of Trivento was St. Castus of an uncertain epoch, assigning him to the fourth century.

• Established in 940 as Diocese of Trivento / Triventin(us) (Latin adjective). Historically the diocese was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Benevento.^[3]
• In 1977 it gained territory from the Benedictine Territorial Abbacy of Montecassino, and lost territory to the Diocese of Sulmona.

Statistics and extent

• As per 25014, it pastorally served 51,786 Catholics (99.8% of 51,903 total) on 1,234 km² in 58 parishes with 52 priests (50 diocesan, 2 religious), 1 deacon, 46 lay religious (2 brothers, 44 sisters) and 6 seminarians.
• It comprises four deaneries - Agnone, Carovilli, Frosolone and Trivento - covering 40 commune (municipalities) in three administrative provinces :
  • in the Province of Campobasso : Trivento, Casalciprano, Castropignano, Duronia, Fossalto, Molise, Montefalcone nel Sannio, Pietracupa, Roccavivara, Salcito, San Biase e Torella del Sannio;
  • in the Province of Isernia : Agnone, Bagnoli del Trigno, Belmonte del Sannio, Capracotta, Carovilli, Castel del Giudice, Castelverrino, Chiauci, Civitanova del Sannio, Frosolone, Montenero Val Cocchiara, Pescolanciano, Pescopennataro, Pietrabbondante, Poggio Sannita, Rionero Sannitico, San Pietro Avellana, Sant'Angelo del Pesco e Vastogirardi;
  • in the Province of Chieti : Borrello, Castelguidone, Castiglione Messer Marino, Celenza sul Trigno, Roio del Sangro, Rosello, San Giovanni Lipioni, Schiavi di Abruzzo e Torrebruna.

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Trivento

BIOS TO ELABORATE

• the monk Leo, intruded and deposed by Pope Agapetus II (946)
• Gaydulfo (1001 – 1015)
• Alferio = Alferius (1084 – 1119)
• Giovanni (1160 – ?)
• Raone (1175 – ?)
• Ponzio (1175 – ?)
• Tommaso (1226 – 1237)
• Riccardo (1240 – ?)
• Nicola (1256 – ?)
• Odorico (1258 – ?)
• Luca, Conventual? Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1258 – 1266), exiled by king ?Manfred, King of Sicily (1258–1266)
• Pace (1266 – ?)
• Giacomo (1290 – 1315)
• Natimbene, Augustinians (O.E.S.A.) (1333 – death 1344), previously Bishop of Avellino (Italy) (1326.02.21 – 1333)
• Giordano Curti (1344 – 1348.05.30), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Messina (Sicily, Italy) (1348.05.30 – 1348)
• Pietro dell' Aquila, O.F.M. (30 May 1348 - death Nov 1361) previously Bishop of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi (Italy) (1347.02.12 – 1348.06.29)
• Guglielmo M. Farinerio, O.F.M. (1356 – 1368)
• Francesco De Ruberto (1370 – 1379)
• Ruggiero De Carcasils (1379 – 1387)
• Pietro Ferillo (1387 – ?)
• Giacomo (1409 – ?)
• Giovanni (1431 – death 1433)
• Giacomo De Tertiis, O.S.B. (1452.09.27 – ?)
• Tommaso Carafa (1473.08.13 – ?), previously Bishop of Pozzuoli (Italy) (1470 – 1473.08.13)
• Bonifacio Troiano (1498 – ?)
• Leonardo Corbera (1498.11.21 – death 1502, previously Bishop of Montepeloso (Italy) (1491.01.10 – 1498.11.21)) =? Leonardo Carmini (21 Nov 1498 - 1502 Died)^[4][5]

BIOS TO COMPLETE/ELABORATE

• Tommaso Caracciolo (archbishop of Capua) (16 March 1502 - 1540 Resigned)
• Matteo Griffoni Pioppi, Order of Saint Benedict (O.S.B.) (15 Nov 1540 - 9 April 1567 Died)
• Giovanni Fabrizio Sanseverino (1568 Appointed - )
• Giulio Cesare Mariconda, Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1582 - 1606 Died)
• Paolo del Lago (Bisnetti), O.F.M. (29 Jan 1607 - 24 Dec 1621 Died)
• Girolamo Costanzo (9 Jan 1623 - 1 March 1627), next Archbishop of Capua)
• Martín de León Cárdenas, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (13 May 1630 - 7 April 1631), next Bishop of Pozzuoli)
• Carolus Scaglia, Can. Reg. S.Geor (12 May 1631 - Dec 1645 Died)
• Giovanni Battista Capacci (16 July 1646 - 1652 Died)
• Giovanni de la Cruz, O.F.M. (20 Jan 1653 - 1654 Died)
• Giovanni Battista Ferruzzo, Oratory of Saint Philip Neri (C.O.) (14 Jan 1655 - Aug 1658 Died)
• Vincenzo Lanfranchi, C.R. (5 May 1660 - 7 Dec 1665), next Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera)
• Ambrogio Maria Piccolomini, O.S.B. (5 May 1666 - 27 May 1675), next Archbishop of Otranto)
• Diego Ibáñez de la Madrid y Bustamente (10 April 1679 - 2 Oct 1684), next Bishop of Pozzuoli)
• Antonio Tortorelli, O.F.M. (13 Nov 1684 - 10 Jan 1715 Died)
• Alfonso Miraconda, O.S.B. (12 July 1717 - 11 Dec 1730), restored the cathedral; next Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera)
• Fortunato Palumbo, O.S.B. (18 Dec 1730 - 19 July 1753 Died)
• Giuseppe Maria Carafa, Theatines (C.R.) (22 July 1754 - 19 Jul 1756), next Bishop of Mileto)
• Giuseppe Pitocco (19 Jul 1756 - 30 May 1771 Died)
• Gioacchino Paglione (23 Sep 1771 - Dec 1790 Died)
• Luca Nicola de Luca (26 Mar 1792 - 7 Jun 1819 Resigned)
• Bernardino D'Avolio, O.F.M. Cap. (21 Feb 1820 - 18 Jul 1821 Died)
• Giovanni De Simone, C.M. (19 Apr 1822 - 3 July 1826), next Bishop of Conversano)
• Michele Arcangelo Del Forno (9 April 1827 - 18 March 1830 Resigned)
• Antonio Perchiacca (2 July 1832 - 26 Nov 1836 Died)
• Benedetto Terenzio (19 May 1837 - 27 Jan 1854 Died)
• Luigi Agazio, O.F.M. (23 June 1854 - 1 Feb 1887 Died)
• Domenico (Daniele) Tempesta, O.F.M. (14 Mar 1887 - 4 Jun 1891), next Bishop of Troia)
• Giulio Vaccaro (4 Jun 1891 - 30 Nov 1896), next Coadjutor Archbishop of Trani e Barletta (e Nazareth e Bisceglie))
• Carlo Pietropaoli (19 April 1897 - 29 April 1913 Resigned)
• Antonio Lega (25 May 1914 - 13 Jun 1921), next [[Coadjutor Archbishop of Ravenna)
• Geremia Pascucci (12 Sep 1922 - 14 May 1926 Died)
• Attilio Adinolfi (27 Feb 1928 - 5 May 1931), next Bishop of Anagni)
• Giovanni Giorgis (30 Sep 1931 - 14 July 1937), next Bishop of Fiesole)
• Epimenio Giannico (7 Sep 1937 - 24 June 1957 Died)
• Pio Agostino Crivellari, O.F.M. (7 Feb 1958 - 3 Feb 1966 Died)
• Achille Palmerini (18 March 1972 - 18 Mar 1975 Resigned)
• Enzio d’Antonio (18 Mar 1975 - 1977 Resigned)
• Antonio Valentini (17 Oct 1977 - 31 Dec 1984), next Archbishop of Chieti)
• Antonio Santucci (8 May 1985 - 17 Oct 2005 Retired)
• Domenico Angelo Scotti (17 Oct 2005 - 5 June 2017)
• Bishop-elect Claudio Palumbo (5 June 2017 – ...)

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Italy

References

Sources and external links

• GCatholic with Google map - data for all sections

 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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