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Roman Catholic Diocese of Trivento

{{short description|Latin Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Italy}}

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{{Infobox diocese

| jurisdiction = Diocese

| name = Trivento

| latin = Dioecesis Triventinus

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| image = FacciataCattedraleTrivento.png

| image_size = 225px

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| caption = Cattedrale dei Santi Nazario, Celso e Vittore

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| country = Italy

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| province = Campobasso-Boiano

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| area_km2 = 1,234

| population = 53,450

| population_as_of = 2010

| catholics = 53,280

| catholics_percent = 99.7

| parishes = 58

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| denomination = Catholic Church

| sui_iuris_church = Latin Church

| rite = Roman Rite

| established = 10th Century

| cathedral = Cattedrale di Ss. Nazaroi, Celso e Vittore

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| bishop_title = Bishop

| bishop = sede vacante

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| website = [https://www.diocesitrivento.it/ www.diocesitrivento.it]

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The Diocese of Trivento ({{langx|la|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.[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/triv2.htm "Diocese of Trivento"] GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved 6 June 2017[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dtriv.html "Diocese of Trivento"] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016

The cathedral is Cattedrale di Ss. Nazario, Celso e Vittore, dedicated to the diocesan patron saints St. Nazarius, St. Celsus and St. Victor, in the episcopal see of Trivento, Campobasso province, in Molise administrative region. The other major sanctuary is at Canneto, in the commune Roccavivara, founded in the fourth century and until the tenth dependent on Montecassino.

History

According to local legend the earliest bishop of Trivento was St. Castus of an uncertain epoch, assigning him to the fourth century.

Statistics and extent

  • {{As of|2014}}, it pastorally served 51,786 Catholics (99.8% of 51,903 total) on 1,234 km2 in 58 parishes with 52 priests (50 diocesan, 2 religious), 1 deacon, 46 lay religious (2 brothers, 44 sisters) and 6 seminarians.
  • It comprises four deaneries - Agnone, Carovilli, Frosolone and Trivento - covering 40 commune (municipalities) in three administrative provinces :
  • in the Province of Campobasso : Trivento, Casalciprano, Castropignano, Duronia, Fossalto, Molise, Montefalcone nel Sannio, Pietracupa, Roccavivara, Salcito, San Biase e Torella del Sannio;
  • in the Province of Isernia : Agnone, Bagnoli del Trigno, Belmonte del Sannio, Capracotta, Carovilli, Castel del Giudice, Castelverrino, Chiauci, Civitanova del Sannio, Frosolone, Montenero Val Cocchiara, Pescolanciano, Pescopennataro, Pietrabbondante, Poggio Sannita, Rionero Sannitico, San Pietro Avellana, Sant'Angelo del Pesco e Vastogirardi;
  • in the Province of Chieti : Borrello, Castelguidone, Castiglione Messer Marino, Celenza sul Trigno, Roio del Sangro, Rosello, San Giovanni Lipioni, Schiavi di Abruzzo e Torrebruna.

Episcopal ordinaries

;Bishops of Trivento

See also

References

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Sources and external links

  • [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/triv2.htm GCatholic with Google map - data for all sections]

{{Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Diocese of Trivento}}

; Bibliography Books

  • {{cite book|editor-last1=Eubel|editor-first1=Conradus |title=Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1|date=1913|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second|url=https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol01eubeuoft}} (in Latin)
  • {{cite book|editor-last1=Eubel|editor-first1=Conradus |title=Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2|date=1914|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second|url=https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol02eubeuoft}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Eubel|first1=Conradus|last2=Gulik|first2=Guilelmus|title=Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3|date=1923|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second|url=https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol02eubeuoft}}
  • {{cite book|last=Gams|first=Pius Bonifatius |title=Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=os9DAQAAMAAJ|year=1873|publisher=Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz|location=Ratisbon|language=Latin}}
  • Italo M. Iasiello, Samnium: assetti e trasformazioni di una provincia dell'Italia tardoantica, Edipuglia, Bari 2007, pp. 139–140
  • Francesco Lanzoni, Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604), vol. I, Faenza 1927, p. 379
  • Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, Venice 1870, vol. XXI, pp. 469–473
  • Valeria Cocozza, Chiesa e società a Trivento. Storia di una diocesi di regio patronato in età spagnola, Thesis laureate 2012-2013
  • {{cite book|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667)|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|url=https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft|accessdate=2016-07-06}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730)|date=1952|publisher=Messagero di S. Antonio|location=Patavii|url=https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol05eubeuoft|accessdate=2016-07-06}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799)|date=1958|publisher=Messagero di S. Antonio|location=Patavii|url=https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol06eubeuoft|accessdate=2016-07-06}}

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