Roman Catholic Diocese of Trivento

The Diocese of Trivento ( la, Dioecesis Triventinus) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy. The Diocese of Trivento is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Campobasso-Boiano, in the ecclesiastical region of Abruzzo-Molise, southern Italy."Diocese of Trivento"
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The cathedral is Cattedrale di Ss. Nazario, Celso e Vittore, dedicated to the diocesan patron saints St. Nazarius, St. Celsus and St. Victor, in the episcopal see of 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(us) (Latin adjective). Historically the diocese was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Benevento.''Catholic Encyclopedia'' article
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* In 1977 it gained territory from the Benedictine Territorial Abbacy of Montecassino, and lost territory to the Diocese of Sulmona.

Statistics and extent

* , 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

;''Bishops of Trivento''

* 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