The Italian Catholic diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant'Agata de' Goti, in Campania, has existed since 1986. Campania is a region of Southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5 In that year the diocese of Sant'Agata de' Goti was united into the historical diocese of Telese o Cerreto Sannita. The diocese is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Benevento. A suffragan bishop is a Bishop subordinate to a Metropolitan bishop or Diocesan bishop. [1]
History
The first bishop of Telese mentioned is Agnellus (487). Telese Terme, called simply Telese until 1991 is a city in the Province of Benevento, in the Campania region of southern Italy. Having fallen into decay, the town was rebuilt in the ninth century. From the tenth century it was subject to the Archbishop of Benevento.
In 1612 Bishop Gian Francesco Leoni (1508) transferred the episcopal residence to Cerreto Sannita. Cerreto Sannita is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 60 km northeast In 1818 the see was united to the diocese of Piedimonte d'Alife[2], but it was re-established in 1852. Among its bishops were:
- Alberico Giacquinto (1540);
- Angelo Massarelli (1567), secretary of the Council of Trent, of which he wrote the acts and a diary;
- Vincenzo Lupoli (1792), a jurist. The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. [3]
Notes
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia
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