Conza della Campania (or Conza di Campania; formerly called Compsa, commonly known as Conza) is a comune (municipality) and former Latin Catholic (arch)bishopric in the province of Avellino in the region of Campania in southern Italy.

Compsa was an ancient city of the Hirpinin occupied by the Carthaginian conqueror Hannibal in 216 BC.

During the Early Middle Ages it was a gastaldate in the Principality of Salerno. In 973 the gastald (city-bsed Lombard royal domain district adùinsitrator and judge) Landulf seized the principality.

Later it belonged to the Balvano, the Gesualdo and the Mirelli families.

The town was almost completely destroyed by the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. It was rebuilt in the area called Piano delle Briglie, 8 kilometres (5 mi) from the former center. Conza della Campania is now a turistic attraction, since it can count among its territory the WWF Oasi, including the lake of Conza and the area outside, the biggest Oasi in Southern Italy. Conza della Campania has also about 10,000 visitors a year at its Archeological site, Compsa, discovered after the earthquake of 1980 that destroyed the old town. The only activity working today in the old Conza is the restaurant " Zia Michelina ", from which there is a wonderful view of the lake and all the area of Alta Irpinia.

Around 800 AD 800, a Diocese of Conza was established.

In 1100 the bishopric was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Conza.

On 27 June 1818, it gained territory from the suppressed bishopricss of Monteverde and Satriano, whose titles were not adopted.

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