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Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo

Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo
Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina
Cattedrale di Alife.jpg
Alife Cathedral
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 domainHerbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 


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