Roman Catholic Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Alife-Caiazzo
Latin:Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina
Country:Italy
Province:Naples
Area Km2:580
Population:62,200 (est.)
Population As Of:2018
Catholics:62,000 (est.)
Parishes:44
Denomination:Catholic Church
Rite:Roman Rite
Established:5th Century
Cathedral:Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Alife)
Cocathedral:Concattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta (Caiazzo)
Priests:44 (diocesan)
6 (Religious Orders)
6 Permanent Deacons
Bishop Title:Bishop
Bishop:Giacomo Cirulli
Emeritus Bishops:Valentino Di Cerbo
Map:Roman Catholic Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo in Italy.jpg
Map Alt:locator map of diocese of Alife-Caiazzo

The Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo (Latin: Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church 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 civil province of Caserta, subject to the Archbishopric of Benevento.

The name of a Bishop of Alife appears for the first time among the signatories of the Roman Synod of 499 of Pope Symmachus.[3] [4] Alife became a suffragan of the metropolitan archbishop of Benevento in 969, when Pope John XIII created the ecclesiastical province of Benevento.[5]

In 1676, the city of Alife had a population of c. 1200 persons, and the diocese in addition had 18 loca (villages). The city had one monastery for men. The bishop resided, however, in a village called "Pedemonte".[6] In 1752, the city of Alife had only 500 inhabitants. The residence of the bishop at Piedimonte had three schools, seven houses of male religious, and two convents of nuns. There were only 13 loca.[7]

After the French

Following the extinction of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the Congress of Vienna authorized the restoration of the Papal States and the Kingdom of Naples. Since the French occupation had seen the abolition of many Church institutions in the Kingdom, as well as the confiscation of much Church property and resources, it was imperative that Pope Pius VII and King Ferdinand IV reach agreement on restoration and restitution. Ferdinand demanded the suppression of fifty dioceses.[8]

A concordat was finally signed on 16 February 1818, and ratified by Pius VII on 25 February 1818. Ferdinand issued the concordat as a law on 21 March 1818.[9] On 27 June 1818, Pius VII issued the bull De Ulteriore, in which, the decision was made to suppress permanently the diocese of Alife, and to incorporate its territory into the united dioceses of Cerreta and Telese.[10]

Protests and complaints were quickly submitted to the pope. The bishop of Alife, Emilio Gentile, the Chapter of the cathedral, the rectors of the parishes of the diocese of Alife, and the magistrates of the city all made their supplications, pointing out the antiquity of the episcopal seat, the well regarded diocesan seminary, the inconvenience and danger of regular travel over the mountains to Telese, and other considerations. Pope Pius submitted these to the Commission for the Execution of the Concordat, and to the Sacred Congregation Consistorial for examination and recommendations. Finally, on 15 January 1820, he issued the bull "Adorandi Servatoris", by which he revoked and annulled the provisions of the bull "De Ulteriore" so far as they commanded the suppression of the diocese of Alife.[11] There was, however, an additional provision: that one and the same bishop would be the bishop of Alife and the bishop of Telese at the same time aeque personaliter. He was to be called the bishop of "Alife and Telese".[12]

On 6 July 1852, in the bull "Compertum Nobis", Pope Pius IX made the decision to reverse the judgment of Pope Pius VII and restore the diocese of Alife, thereby completely separating the two dioceses, and removing its territory again from the power of the bishop of Cerreto and Telese.[13]

Consolidation of dioceses

On 18 February 1984, the Vatican and the Italian State signed a new and revised concordat, which was accompanied in the next year by enabling legislation. According to the agreement, the practice of having one bishop govern two separate dioceses at the same time, aeque personaliter, was abolished. Otherwise Caiazzo and Alife, who shared a bishop, might have become the diocese of Alife and Caiazzo. Instead, the Vatican continued consultations which had begun under Pope John XXIII for the merging of small dioceses, especially those with personnel and financial problems, into one combined diocese.

On 30 September 1986, Pope John Paul II ordered that the dioceses of Caiazzo and Alife be merged into one diocese with one bishop, with the Latin title Dioecesis Aliphana - Caiacensis. The seat of the diocese was to be in Alife, and the cathedral of Alife was to serve as the cathedral of the merged diocese. The cathedral in Caiazzo was to become a co-cathedral, and the cathedral Chapter was to be a Capitulum Concathedralis. There was to be only one diocesan Tribunal, in Alife, and likewise one seminary, one College of Consultors, and one Priests' Council. The territory of the new diocese was to include the territory of the former separate dioceses of Caiazzo and Alife.[14]

Bishops of Alife

Erected: 5th Century
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Benevento

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Gentilis (before Oct 1291– ?) Administrator[24]

1600 to 1986

Bishops of Alife-Caiazzo

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

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dalif.html "Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo"
  2. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/alif0.htm "Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo"
  3. Clarus episcopus Ecclesiœ Allifanœ subscripsi); see "Monumenta Germaniæ Historica," Auctorum Antiquissimorum Tomus XII (Berlin: Weidmann 1894), p. 406. Bishop Clarus signs seventh, suggesting great seniority in office.
  4. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01312a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article
  5. Cappelletti, p. 90.
  6. Ritzler & Sefrin V, p. 79, note 1.
  7. Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 77, note 1.
  8. Book: Francesco Scaduto. Stato e chiesa nelle due Sicilie dai Normanni ai giorni nostri. 1887. A. Amenta. Palermo. Italian. 42–58; 74–78.
  9. F. Torelli (1848), La chiave del concordato dell'anno 1818 I, second edition (Naples: Fibreno 1848), pp. 1-19.
  10. Pius VII, Bullarii Romani Continuatio Tomus 25 (Rome 1853), p. 58 § 11: "Praevia item suppressione episcopalis ecclesiae Aliphanae ex nunc pro tunc quando ex persona moderni antistitis Aliphani quomodocumque vacare contigerit, civitatem illam ac dioecesim adjungimus atque incorporamus episcopalibus ecclesiis unitis Cerretanae et Thelesinae."
  11. https://books.google.com/books?id=bG066Kabi4EC&pg=PA78 Collezione degli atti emanati dopo la pubblicazione del Concordato dell'anno 1819,
  12. Collezione degli atti..., pp. 36-40.
  13. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2qm6npdLkEC&pg=PA134 Collezione degli atti emanati dopo la pubblicazione del Concordato dell'anno 1818
  14. Acta Apostolicae Sedis 79 (Città del Vaticano 1987), pp. 631-633.
  15. Bishop Clarus was present at the Roman synod of Pope Symmachus in 499. J.-D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus VIII (Florence: A. Zatta 1762), p. 234. Francesco Lanzoni (1927), Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604). Faenza: F. Lega, p. 378.
  16. Gams, p. 847, column 1.
  17. Gams, p. 847, column 1. Cappelletti, pp. 91-104.
  18. In his documents his name is also spelled Robbertus. Book: Erasmo Gattola. Historia abbatiae Cassinensis. Pars prima. 1733. Sebastian Coleti. Venice. la. 44–45; 49–50. Cappelletti, p. 105. Gams, p. 847. Kehr IX, p. 114.
  19. Kehr, p. 114.
  20. Bishop Baldwin was present at the Third Lateran Council of Pope Alexander III in March 1179. Ughelli, p. 208. J.-D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus XXII (Venice: A. Zatta 1778), p. 460. Cappelletti, p. 106.
  21. Cappelletti, p. 106. Eubel I, p. 84 with note 1.
  22. Alferius was appointed by Pope Innocent IV on 27 April 1252. He was transferred to the diocese of Viterbo on 27 January 1254. Eubel I, p. 84, 532.
  23. Fr. Romanus was the sub-Prior of the convent of the Dominicans in Rome (the Minerva? Santa Sabina?) had to be ordered by Pope Innocent IV, in a letter of 28 March 1254, to take up the office to which he had been elected by the Church of Alife. Romanus' choice as bishop may have happened as early as the end of January. He was ordered to be consecrated a bishop by Pope Innocent on 2 April 1254, by the Archbishop of Corinth, assisted by the bishops of Viterbo and Cefalù. He was still in office in 1286. E. Berger, Les registres d'Innocent IV Tome troisième (Paris: Fontemoing 1897), p. 392, no. 7409; p. 396, no. 7424. Eubel I, p. 84.
  24. Eubel I, p. 84.
  25. Petrus: Ughelli, p. 242. Eubel I, p. 84.
  26. Thomas was confirmed by Pope Innocent VI on 8 March 1346. Eubel I, p. 84.
  27. Joannes had been Archdeacon of Alife. Eubel I, p. 84.
  28. Joannes was appointed Bishop of Alife by Urban VI on 10 May 1389. Eubel I, p. 84.
  29. Angelus was appointed by John XXIII on 13 February 1413. Eubel I, p. 84.
  30. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica II, p. 85.
  31. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bzefra.html "Bishop Giovanni Zefra"
  32. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsaccoa.html "Bishop Angelo Sacco"
  33. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmrsgli.html "Bishop Ippolito Marsigli"
  34. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bnogu.html "Bishop Diego Gilberto Nogueras"
  35. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brssian.html "Bishop Angelo Rossi"
  36. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsantogb.html "Bishop Giovanni Battista Santorio"
  37. Book: HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. Gauchat. Patritius (Patrice). 78.
  38. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgavazm.html "Bishop Modesto Gavazzi, O.F.M. Conv."
  39. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmedicpp.html "Bishop Pietro Paolo Medici"
  40. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bborgh.html "Bishop Henri Borghi, O.S.M."
  41. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcaracd.html "Bishop Domenico Caracciolo"
  42. Lazzara: Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 79, with note 3.
  43. Porfiri (Porfirius): Ritzler & Sefrin V, p. 79, with note 4.
  44. Web site: Michele Giugliano. Vescovi alifani dal XVII al XX secolo . Associazione Storica del Medio Volturno . it. 9 May 2020 .

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