Roman Catholic Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant'Agata de' Goti

Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de' Goti Dioecesis Cerretana-Thelesina-Sanctae Agathae Gothorum
Cathedral in Cerreto Sannita
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Benevento
Statistics
Area	583 km2 (225 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2006) 91,242 90,109 (98.8%)
Parishes	60
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	5th Century
Cathedral	(Cerreto Sannita)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale della Santissima Trinità (Telese Terme) Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Sant’Agata de’ Goti)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop
Bishops emeritus
Website
www.diocesicerreto.it

The Italian Catholic Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant'Agata de' Goti (Latin: Dioecesis Cerretana-Thelesina-Sanctae Agathae Gothorum), in Campania, Italy, has existed since 1986, when the Diocese of Sant'Agata de' Goti was united into the historical Diocese of Telese-Cerreto Sannita. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Benevento.^[1][2]

It has its cathedral episcopal see Cattedrale di SS. Trinità e Beata Vergine Maria Madre della Chiesa,^{[clarification needed]} dedicated to the Holy Trinity and to Mary Mother of the Church, in Cerreto Sannita
and a Co-Cathedral: Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, in Sant’Agata de’ Goti
but the former Cathedral (now ruined), Ex cattedrale Santa Croce, dedicated to the Holy Cross, in Telese, remains decommissioned
There is also a Minor Basilica: Basilica-Santuario di S. Maria Assunta e S. Filippo Neri, in Guardia Sanframondi.

Statistics[]

As per 2014, it pastorally served 89,753 Catholics (98.2% of 91,388 total) on 583 km² in 60 parishes and 50 missions with 73 priests (57 diocesan, 16 religious), 2 deacons, 98 lay religious (17 brothers, 81 sisters) and 6 seminarians.

History[]

The first bishop of Telese mentioned is Agnellus (487). 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 (1508) transferred the episcopal residence to Cerreto Sannita. In 1818 the see was united to the diocese of Alife,^[3] but it was re-established in 1852. Among its bishops were:

• (1540);
• Angelo Massarelli (1567), secretary of the Council of Trent, of which he wrote the acts and a diary;
• (1792), a jurist.^[4]

Episcopal ordinaries[]

Co-cathedral in Sant'Agata de' Goti

Decommissioned cathedral ruins in Telese Terme

Bishops of Telese

Erected: 5th Century

incomplete : first centuries missing

• ...
• Luciano (1214?–?)
• Rao (1240.03.28 – death 1286)
• Salerno (1286.07.16 – 1296?)
• Giacomo (1296? – death 1325)
• Giovanni Arisio (1326.05.21 – death 1328)
• Tommaso (1328.11.07 – death 1340)
• Tommaso (1340.11.06 – death 1345)
• Matteo Guiliand, O.F.M. (1345.07.15 – death 1348)
• Domenico, O.F.M. (1348.11.10 – 1353)
• Giacomo da Cerreto (1353.01.29 – death 1372), previously Bishop of Vulturara (1349.01.12 – 1353.01.29)
• Giacomo (1372.07.14 – 1398), previously Bishop of Lavello (1371.01.05 – 1372.07.14); later Bishop of Nicastro (Italy) (1398–?)
• ...
• ? Angelo Marcuzzi (20 Jan 1413 – 1453 Died)

...

• (14 June 1459 – 8 Oct 1464), next Bishop of Muro Lucano)
• (8 Oct 1464 – 17 Dec 1483), next Bishop of Penne e Atri)
• Troilo Agnesi (17 Dec 1483 – 12 Feb 1487), next Bishop of Lavello)^[5]
• Pietro Palagario, O.F.M. (12 Feb 1487 – 1505 Died)
• Andrea Riccio (bishop) (24 Oct 1505 – 1515 Died)
• Biagio Caropipe (1 June 1515 – 10 July 1524 Died)
• (8 August 1524 – 1525 Resigned)
• Mauro de Pretis (6 Oct 1525 – 1533 Died)
• (14 Feb 1533 – 1540 Resigned)
• Alberico Giaquinta (30 April 1540 – 1548 Died)
• Giovanni Beraldo (14 March 1548 – 1 Oct 1557), next Bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti)
• Angelo Massarelli (15 Dec 1557 – 17 July 1566 Died)
• , O.S.A. (19 August 1566 – 23 April 1577 Died)
• Annibale Cattaneo (15 Oct 1578 – 1584 Died)
• , O.P. (17 Dec 1584 – 1587 Resigned)
• (12 Oct 1587 – 15 Nov 1595 Died)
• (27 March 1596 – Sep 1604 Died)
• , O.S.B. (17 Nov 1604 – 19 Nov 1605 Died)
• , B. (13 Feb 1606 – 1608 Died)
• (15 Dec 1608 – see below)

Bishops of Cerreto Sannita or Telese

Latin Name: Thelesina et Cerretana

• ('see above 15 Dec 1608 – 14 April 1613 Died)
• , C.R.S.A. (15 July 1613 – Oct 1636 Died)
• , O.S.B. (16 March 1637 – 14 Dec 1643), next Bishop of Isernia)
• (18 April 1644 – 1659 Resigned)
• , C.R.S. (1 Sep 1659 – 13 Nov 1674 Died)
• , O.P. (6 May 1675 – 19 Sep 1683 Died)
• Giovanni Battista de Belli (24 April 1684 – Sep 1693 Died)^[6]
• (22 Dec 1693 – Oct 1721 Died)
• Francesco Baccari (14 Jan 1722 – 13 May 1736 Died)
• Antonio Falangola (9 July 1736 – 29 May 1747), next Bishop of Caserta)
• Filippo Gentile (20 Nov 1747 – 25 June 1771 Died)
• Filiberto Pascali (Pascale) (23 Sep 1771 – 20 Feb 1788 Died)
• Vincenzo Lupoli (27 Feb 1792 – 1 Jan 1800 Died)
• Raffaele Longobardi (21 Dec 1818 Confirmed – 23 Sep 1822 Died)
• Giovanni Battista de Martino di Pietradoro (3 May 1824 Confirmed – 1 May 1826 Died)
• Carlo Puoti (3 July 1826 Confirmed – 14 March 1848 Died)
• Gennaro di Giacomo (22 Dec 1848 – July 1852 Resigned)
• Luigi Sodo (27 June 1853 Confirmed – 30 July 1895 Died)
• Angelo Michele Jannachino (29 Nov 1895 – 12 Jan 1918 Resigned)
• Giuseppe Signore (20 June 1918 – 1 Dec 1928 Resigned)
• Salvatore Del Bene (17 Dec 1928 – 6 April 1957 Died)
• Felice Leonardo (22 July 1957 – 20 July 1991 Retired)

Bishops of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti

United: 30 September 1986 with Diocese of Sant’Agata de’ Goti
Latin Name: Cerretana-Thelesina-Sanctae Agathae Gothorum

• (20 July 1991 – 6 August 1997 Appointed Bishop of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti)
• (23 May 1998 – 24 June 2016 Retired)
• Domenico Battaglia (24 June 2016 – 12 December 2020 Appointed Archbishop of Naples)
• (7 May 2021 – present)

See also[]

• List of Catholic dioceses in Italy

References[]

Sources and external links[]

• GCatholic
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Coordinates: 41°16′57″N 14°33′18″E / 41.28250°N 14.55500°E / 41.28250; 14.55500