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Diocese of Trivento

The Diocese of Trivento () 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. Trivento is approximately 100-110 kilometers (roughly 62-68 miles) north-northwest of Benevento, in the civil Campobasso province, in the administrative region of Molise.

The cathedral of the diocese is the Cattedrale di Ss. Nazario, Celso e Vittore, Trivento. 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, sent to Trivento by Pope Clement I at the end of the 1st century. Some seek to save the appearances by assigning him to the fourth century. The legend, which first appears in a document of the 14th century, has been disproved.

The Diocese of Trivento (the Latin adjective is: Triventinus) was also said to have been established c. 940, and was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Benevento.

In 946, Pope Agapetus II consecrated a Benedictine monk and priest named Leo as bishop of Trivento. He immediately received a protest from Archbishop Joannes of Benevento, who demonstrated with documents that he possessed the right to consecrate the bishops of Trivento. The pope admitted his mistake and gave way, deposed Leo from the diocesan seat, and advised the people of Trivento, under pain of excommunication, that they should not receive Leo or allow him to carry out episcopal functions. In passing, the archbishop notes that Trivento had been his and his predecessors' suffragan antiquitus. This is in striking disagreement with the notion that the diocese was founded c. 940.

In his war against Pope Gregory IX and then the College of Cardinals, the Emperor Frederick II passed through Trivento in 1241, and requisitioned all the gold, silver, jewels, and vestments belonging to the Church, which he sold and used to pay for his expedition.

In the Liber Censuum of 1192, the diocese of Trivento is listed as a suffragan of the archdiocese of Benevento. Bishop Giacomo (1290–1315), however, obtained from Pope Boniface VIII on 9 August 1296, the privilege of exemption from the jurisdiction of the archbishop of Benevento for himself for life.

On 30 June 1474, in the bull "Ad Apostolicae dignitatis," Pope Sixtus IV granted the bishops of Trivento exemption from the jurisdiction of the archbishops of Benevento, though still requiring them to attend the synods of the archbishop.

The diocese of Trivento, in 1532, had a population of 4,461 fuochi, or 20, 075 persons. When Bishop Carolus Scaglia (1631–1645) made his ad limina visit to Rome in 1643, he reported that the population was 35,000 persons, about 25,000 of whom were communicants.

Changes of dynasties

In 1446, Pope Eugenius IV granted the Emperor Frederick III (Habsburg) the privilege of nominating a candidate to an episcopal vacancy in his lands. The privilege was renewed for successive emperors, until Sixtus IV made it permanent in 1480. In September 1523, the Emperor Charles V obtained the privilege for all the bishoprics in the Spanish church, and in 1529 it was extended to twenty-five of the 130 bishoprics in the Kingdom of Naples. Trivento was one of these.

By the Peace of Utrecht (1713), the kingdom of the Two Sicilies (including Naples) passed from the House of Bourbon to the House of Habsburg. By the Treaty of Vienna (1738), Naples passed under the control of King Charles III of Spain (Charles VII of Naples). Charles died on 6 October 1759, and was succeeded by Ferdinand IV of Naples. In 1818, in a new concordat with the kingdom of Naples, Pope Pius VII conceded to the kings the privilege of nominating candidates to all the dioceses in his kingdom.

In 1977 the diocese of Trivento gained territory from the Benedictine Territorial Abbacy of Montecassino, and lost territory to the Diocese of Sulmona.

Chapter and cathedral

The cathedral in Trivento is dedicated to Saints Nazarius and Celsus. It was served by an ecclesiastical corporation called the Chapter, which was headed by five dignities.

Synods

Bishop Alfonso Mariconda, O.S.B. (1717–1730) held his first diocesan synod in Trivento in 1726, and his second from 31 May to 2 June 1727. The proceedings and relevant documents were published.

The diocesan priestly seminary was erected by Bishop Giulio Cesare Mariconda (Moriconi, Moriconda), O.F.M. (1582–1606).

Extent of diocese

The diocese is divided into four deaneries: Agnone, Carovilli, Frosolone and Trivento - covering 40 commune (municipalities) in three administrative provinces :

  • in the civil Province of Campobasso: Trivento, Casalciprano, Castropignano, Duronia, Fossalto, Molise, Montefalcone nel Sannio, Pietracupa, Roccavivara, Salcito, San Biase e Torella del Sannio;
  • in the civil 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 civil Province of Chieti: Borrello, Castelguidone, Castiglione Messer Marino, Celenza sul Trigno, Roio del Sangro, Rosello, San Giovanni Lipioni, Schiavi di Abruzzo e Torrebruna.

Bishops of Trivento

To 1379

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  • Gaidulfus (1001–1015?)
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  • Maifredus ( 1043)
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  • Alferius (1084)
  • Giovanni (c. 1109–1115)
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  • Giovanni (1160–?)
  • Raone (1175–?)
  • Ignotus (1196 – ? )
  • Tommaso (1226–1237)
  • [Ignotus] (1237–1240)
  • Riccardo (1240–?)
  • Nicolaus (1256–?)
  • Odorico (1258–?)
  • Luca, O.F.M. (1258–1266)
  • Pace (1266–?)
  • Giacomo (1290–1315)
  • Natimbene, O.E.S.A. (1334–1344)
  • Giordano Curti (1344 – 1348.05.30), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Messina (Sicily, Italy) (1348.05.30 – 1348)
  • Pietro dell'Aquila, O.F.M. (1348–1361)
  • Guglielmo M. Farinerio, O.F.M. (1356–1368)
  • Francesco De Ruberto (1370–1379)

From 1379 to 1684

:Sede vacante (1627 – 1630)
:Sede vacante (1675 – 1679)

From 1684 to 1913

  • Antonio Tortorelli, O.F.M. (1684–1715)
  • Alfonso Miraconda, O.S.B. (1717–1730)
  • Fortunato Palumbo, O.S.B. (18 Dec 1730 – 19 Jul 1753 Died)
  • Giuseppe Maria Carafa, C.R. (1754–1756)
  • Giuseppe Pitocco (19 Jul 1756 – 30 May 1771)
  • Gioacchino Paglione (23 Sep 1771 – Dec 1790)
  • Luca Nicola de Luca (1792–1819)
  • Bernardino D'Avolio, O.F.M. Cap. (21 Feb 1820 – 18 Jul 1821 Died)
  • Giovanni De Simone, C.M. (19 Apr 1822 – 3 Jul 1826 Confirmed, Bishop of Conversano)
  • Michele Arcangelo Del Forno (9 Apr 1827 – 18 Mar 1830 Resigned)
  • Antonio Perchiacca (2 Jul 1832 – 26 Nov 1836 Died)
  • Benedetto Terenzio (19 May 1837 – 27 Jan 1854 Died)
  • Luigi Agazio, O.F.M. (23 Jun 1854 – 1 Feb 1887 Died)
  • Domenico (Daniele) Tempesta, O.F.M. (14 Mar 1887 – 4 Jun 1891 Appointed, Bishop of Troia)
  • Giulio Vaccaro (4 Jun 1891 – 30 Nov 1896 Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of Trani e Barletta (e Nazareth e Bisceglie))
  • Carlo Pietropaoli (1897–1913)

Since 1913

  • Antonio Lega (25 May 1914 – 1921
  • Geremia Pascucci (1922–1926)
  • Attilio Adinolfi (1928–1931)
  • Giovanni Giorgis (1931–1937)
  • Epimenio Giannico (1937–1957)
  • Pio Agostino Crivellari, O.F.M. (1958–1966)
  • Achille Palmerini (18 Mar 1972 – 18 Mar 1975 Resigned)
  • Enzio d'Antonio (18 Mar 1975 – 1977 Resigned)
  • Antonio Valentini (1977 – 1984)
  • Antonio Santucci (8 May 1985 – 17 Oct 2005 Retired)
  • Domenico Angelo Scotti (17 Oct 2005 – 5 Jun 2017)
  • Claudio Palumbo (5 Jun 2017 – 7 Dec 2024 Appointed bishop of Termoli-Larino)

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