Diocese of Alife–Caiazzo
Aliphan(us)-Caiacen(sis) seu Caiatin(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Alife, Italy
The Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo is a Latin diocese in Campania, southern Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Naples. It was formed in 1986 by the union of the dioceses of Alife and Caiazzo.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 September 1986
- Latin
- Aliphan(us)-Caiacen(sis) seu Caiatin(us)
- Patron
- <li>san Sixto I<li>san Stefano Minicillo<li>san Fernando de Aragón
- Annuario code
- 001000648
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 62,000
- Population
- 62,200
- Catholic share
- 99.7%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 1,409
- Extent
- 580 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 107
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Giacomo Cirulli
- Born
- 25 September 1952
- Birthplace
- Cerignola
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Alife stands in Alife, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta, Caiazzo.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Naples
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Naples.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AcerraAcerra
- Diocese of AversaAversa
- Diocese of IschiaIschia
- Archdiocese of NapoliNapoli
- Diocese of PozzuoliPozzuoli
- Diocese of Sessa AuruncaSessa Aurunca
- Archdiocese of Sorrento–Castellammare di StabiaSorrento–Castellammare di Stabia
- Diocese of Teano–CalviTeano
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Created in 1986 through the union of the historic Diocese of Alife with the Diocese of Caiazzo, this Latin diocese in Campania, southern Italy (Latin: Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Naples.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].