Roman Catholic Diocese of San Severo
| Diocese of San Severo Dioecesis Sancti Severi | |
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 San Severo Cathedral | |
| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Foggia-Bovino |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 1,270 km2 (490 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2014) 158,700 120,000 (75.6%) |
| Parishes | 34 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 16th century |
| Cathedral | Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta |
| Secular priests | 53 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Giovanni Checchinato |
| Website | |
| www.diocesisansevero.it | |
The Italian Catholic Diocese of San Severo (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Severi) is in Apulia. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino.[1]
History
The diocese of San Severo was established in 1580 as a continuation or replacement of that of Civitate, a town now called San Paolo di Civitate, close to the ruins of Teanum Apulum.
Among the bishops of Civitate were:
- Fra Lorenzo da Viterbo, O.P. (1330), a theologian;
- Luca Gaurico (1545), an astronomer;
- Francesco Alciati (1561), later a cardinal.
In 1580 the first occupant of the see of San Severo was Martino de Martini, a Jesuit; other bishops are:
- Fabrizio Verallo (1606), nuncio in Switzerland, later a cardinal;
- Francesco Venturi (1625), a canonist and defender of the rights of the Church;
- Orazio Fortunato (1670), who restored the cathedral;
- Carlo Felice de Matta (1678)
- Carlo Francesco Giocoli (1703)
- Fra Adeodato Summantico (1720), an Augustinian.
To this diocese was later added the territory of the ancient Dragonara, a city built in 1005 by the Byzantine Governor of Apulia. Cappelletti gives the names of twenty-eight bishops between 1061 and 1657.[2]
Notes
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Foggia-Bovino | |
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