Bishop of Alife
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Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina |
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Alife Cathedral
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| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Naples |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 580 km2 (220 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2015) 70,800 (est.) 68,500 (est.) (96.8%) |
| Parishes | 44 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 5th Century |
| Cathedral | Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Alife) |
| Co-cathedral | Concattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta (Caiazzo) |
| Secular priests | 53 (diocesan) 9 (Religious Orders) |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Valentino Di Cerbo |
| Website | |
| www.diocesi-alife-caiazzo.it | |
The Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo (Latin: Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Campania, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year the historic Diocese of Alife was united with the Diocese of Caiazzo. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Naples.
In 2014 the diocese had one priest for every 1,104 Catholics.
The old diocese of Alife was made up of twelve communes in the province of Caserta, Archbishopric of Benevento. The name of a Bishop of Alife appears for the first time among the signatories of the Roman Synod of 499, in the time of Pope Symmachus (Clarus episcopus Ecclesiœ Allifanœ subscripsi); see "Monumenta Germaniæ Historica," auct. Antiquiss., XII, 400.
Erected: 5th Century
Latin Name: Aliphanus
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Benevento
United: 30 September 1986 with the Diocese of Caiazzo
Latin Name: Aliphanus-Caiacensis o Caiatinus
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.
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