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Diocese of Trivento Dioecesis Triventinus | |
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| Cattedrale dei Santi Nazario, Celso e Vittore | |
| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Campobasso-Boiano |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 1,234 km2 (476 sq mi) |
Population
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| Parishes | 58 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 10th Century |
| Cathedral | Cattedrale di Ss. Nazaroi, Celso e Vittore |
| Secular priests | 41 (diocesan) 13 (Religious Orders) 5 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Bishop | Camillo Cibotti |
| Bishops emeritus | Domenico Angelo Scotti |
| Website | |
| www.diocesitrivento.it | |
The Diocese of Trivento (Latin : Dioecesis Triventinus) 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. [1] [2] 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.
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. [3] The legend, which first appears in a document of the 14th century, has been disproved. [4]
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. [5]
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. [6] In passing, the archbishop notes that Trivento had been his and his predecessors' suffragan antiquitus. [7] 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. [8]
In the Liber Censuum of 1192, the diocese of Trivento is listed as a suffragan of the archdiocese of Benevento. [9] 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. [10]
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. [11]
In 1977 the diocese of Trivento gained territory [12] from the Benedictine Territorial Abbacy of Montecassino, and lost territory to the Diocese of Sulmona.
Bishop Alfonso Miraconda, O.S.B. (1717–1730) held his second diocesan synod in Trivento from 31 May to 2 June 1727. The proceedings and relevant documents were published. [13]
The diocesan priestly seminary was erected by Bishop Giulio Cesare Mariconda (Moriconi, Moriconda), O.F.M. (1582–1606). [14]
The diocese is divided into four deaneries: Agnone, Carovilli, Frosolone and Trivento - covering 40 commune (municipalities) in three administrative provinces :
○ [ Leo, O.S.B.] [15]