Roman Catholic Diocese of Trivento
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Trivento 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.
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
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. Historically the diocese was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Benevento.
- 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 on 1,234 km² in 58 parishes with 52 priests, 1 deacon, 46 lay religious and 6 seminarians.
- It comprises four deaneries - Agnone, Carovilli, Frosolone and Trivento - covering 40 commune 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
;Suffragan Bishops of Trivento
- the monk Leo, intruded and deposed by Pope Agapetus II
- Gaydulfo
- Alferio
- Giovanni
- Raone
- Ponzio
- Tommaso
- Riccardo
- Nicola
- Odorico
- Luca, Conventual? Friars Minor , exiled by king Manfred, King of Sicily?
- Pace
- Giacomo
- Natimbene, Augustinians , previously Bishop of Avellino
- Giordano Curti, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Messina
- Pietro dell' Aquila, O.F.M. previously Bishop of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi
- Guglielmo M. Farinerio, O.F.M.
- Francesco De Ruberto
- Ruggiero De Carcasils
- Pietro Ferillo
- Giacomo
- Giovanni
- Giacomo De Tertiis, O.S.B.
- Tommaso Carafa, previously Bishop of Pozzuoli
- Bonifacio Troiano
- Leonardo Carmini
- Tommaso Caracciolo
- Matteo Griffoni Pioppi, O.S.B.
- Giovanni Fabrizio Sanseverino
- Giulio Cesare Mariconda, O.F.M.
- Paolo del Lago, O.F.M.
- Girolamo Costanzo
- Martín de León Cárdenas, O.S.A.
- Carolus Scaglia, Can. Reg. S.Geor
- Giovanni Battista Capacci
- Giovanni de la Cruz, O.F.M.
- Giovanni Battista Ferruzzo, C.O.
- Vincenzo Lanfranchi, C.R.
- Ambrogio Maria Piccolomini, O.S.B.
- Diego Ibáñez de la Madrid y Bustamente
- Antonio Tortorelli, O.F.M.
- Alfonso Miraconda, O.S.B. restored the cathedral
- Fortunato Palumbo, O.S.B.
- Giuseppe Maria Carafa, C.R.
- Giuseppe Pitocco
- Gioacchino Paglione
- Luca Nicola de Luca
- Bernardino D'Avolio, O.F.M. Cap.
- Giovanni De Simone, C.M.
- Michele Arcangelo Del Forno
- Antonio Perchiacca
- Benedetto Terenzio
- Luigi Agazio, O.F.M.
- Domenico Tempesta, O.F.M.
- Giulio Vaccaro
- Carlo Pietropaoli
- Antonio Lega
- Geremia Pascucci
- Attilio Adinolfi
- Giovanni Giorgis
- Epimenio Giannico
- Pio Agostino Crivellari, O.F.M.
- Achille Palmerini
- Enzio d'Antonio
- Antonio Valentini
- Antonio Santucci
- Domenico Angelo Scotti
- Bishop-elect Claudio Palumbo