Diocese of Nola
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Diocese of Nola Dioecesis Nolana |
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Nola Cathedral
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| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Naples |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 450 km2 (170 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2004) 523,900 502,000 (95.8%) |
| Parishes | 115 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 2nd Century |
| Cathedral | Basilica Cattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Beniamino Depalma, C.M. |
| Website | |
| www.diocesinola.it | |
The Diocese of Nola (Latin: Dioecesis Nolana) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Italy, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Naples. Its seat is the Campanian city of Nola, now a suburb of Naples. Its cathedral is dedicated to Mary of the Assumption (Italian: Basilica Cattedrale di Maria SS Assunta). It is traditionally credited with the introduction of the use of bells into Christian worship.
The diocese was founded in the late 2nd or early 3rd century by St Felix. He was martyred, as were St Januarius's companions Reparatus, Faustillus, and Acacius. The early center of worship was at Cimitile, outside Nola proper and now named for its cemetery. The basilica of St Felix Martyr was built by Bishop Paulinus in the late 4th or early 5th century. Paulinus is traditionally credited with the introduction of bells into Christian ritual, whence two major medieval forms became known as nolas and campanas. Felix's relics, and then Paulinus's own, made the site a major focus of Christian pilgrimage. (Paulinus's body was removed to the neighboring diocese of Benevento in 839, traded to the emperor Otto III in 1000, and finally restored to Nola in 1909.) St Adeodatus was a 5th-century archpresbyter within the diocese; his metrical epitaph has been preserved.
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