Arpaia is a town, ''
comune
A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...
'' (municipality) and former (now titular) episcopal see in the
Province of Benevento
The province of Benevento () is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Benevento.
Geography
The province has an area of 2,071 km2, and, as of 2017, a population of 279,127. There are 78 '' ...
in the southern
Italian region
Campania
Campania is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy located in Southern Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian Peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islan ...
, located about 35 km northeast of
Naples
Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...
and about 25 km southwest of
Benevento
Benevento ( ; , ; ) is a city and (municipality) of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill above sea level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino (or Beneventano) and the Sabato (r ...
.
Arpaia borders the following municipalities:
Airola,
Forchia,
Paolisi and
Roccarainola.
History
Arpaia, rather than present-day
Montesarchio
Montesarchio (; ; ) is a ''comune'' in the Province of Benevento, Campania, Southern Italy. It is located southwest of Benevento in the Valle Caudina at the foot of Monte Taburno. The commune was granted the official status of city (''città'') b ...
, is considered to have been the seat of the ancient
Diocese of Caudium (circa 400–600). The see was suppressed in 600, but in 1970 it was formally restored as the Latin Catholic
titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbi ...
of Caudium.
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Italy
The following is a list of Catholic dioceses in Italy. , the Catholic Church in Italy is divided into sixteen ecclesiastical regions. While they are similar to the 20 Regions of Italy, civil regions of the Italian state, there are some differences ...
*
Caudium
Caudium (modern Montesarchio) was the main city of the ancient Caudini tribe in Samnium situated on the Appian Way between Benevento, Beneventum (modern Benevento) and Capua, in what is now southern Italy. It was 21 Roman miles from Capua, and 11 f ...
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Battle of the Caudine Forks
References
Sources and external links
GCatholic - former & titular see = Caudium
Cities and towns in Campania
Articles which contain graphical timelines
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