Conza della Campania (or Conza di Campania; formerly called Compsa, commonly known as Conza) is a comune (municipality) and former Latin Catholic (arch)bishopric in the province of Avellino in the region of Campania in southern Italy.
Compsa was an ancient city of the Hirpinin occupied by the Carthaginian conqueror Hannibal in 216 BC.
Medieval and modern history
During the Early Middle Ages it was a gastaldate in the Principality of Salerno. In 973 the gastald (city-bsed Lombard royal domain district adùinsitrator and judge) Landulf seized the principality.
Later it belonged to the Balvano, the Gesualdo and the Mirelli families.
The town was almost completely destroyed by the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. It was rebuilt in the area called Piano delle Briglie, 8 kilometres (5 mi) from the former center. Conza della Campania is now a turistic attraction, since it can count among its territory the WWF Oasi, including the lake of Conza and the area outside, the biggest Oasi in Southern Italy. Conza della Campania has also about 10,000 visitors a year at its Archeological site, Compsa, discovered after the earthquake of 1980 that destroyed the old town. The only activity working today in the old Conza is the restaurant " Zia Michelina ", from which there is a wonderful view of the lake and all the area of Alta Irpinia.
Around 800 AD 800, a Diocese of Conza was established.
In 1100 the bishopric was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Conza.
On 27 June 1818, it gained territory from the suppressed bishopricss of Monteverde and Satriano, whose titles were not adopted.
On 30 September 1921, it was renamed as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Conza–Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Bisaccia, reflecting it had gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Bisaccia, but it also had lost territory to establish the bishopric of Campagna
On 1986.09.30 it was suppressed and its territory reassigned to establish the Archdiocese of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Conza–Nusco–Bisaccia|]], which includes its triple title. Conza's former cathedral episcopal see remains a Co-Cathedral: Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta, dedicated to the Assumption of Our Lady.
(all Roman Rite)
Suffragan Bishops of Conza
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Leo (1081? – ?)
Metropolitan Archbishops of Conza
Malcerio (1102? – ?)
Gregor (1103? – ?)
Pasquale (1106 – 1113)
Roberto (1120 – 1129)
Saint Erberto Hoscam (1169 – death 1180)
Gervasio (1184? – ?)
Pantaleone (1200 – 1215?)
Andrea (1225.09.27 – ?)
Nicola de Bonifaciis (1254.04.24 – death 1273?)
Marco Andrea de Alberto (1274.08.18 – death 1277?)
Stefano de Oringo, Cistercians (O. Cist.) (1277? – ?)
Lorenzo Biondi, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1279.06.13 – death 1282?)
Adenolfo (1295.10.01 – 1301), previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Brindisi (southern Italy) (1288.05.23 – 1295.10.01)
Consiglio Gatti, O.P. (1301 – 1320), previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Oristano (Italy) (1299 – 1301)
Leo (1327.02.27 – death 1334)
Pietro (1334.10.30 – death 1346)
Lorenzo (1346.12.11 – death 1351)
Filippo, Carmelites (O. Carm.) (1351.06.17 – ?)
Bartolomeo de Valenza (1356.07.04 – death 1389)
Mello (1390.05.18 – 1412?)
uncanonical : Nicola di Cassia (1409.05.15 – 1422.05.20) without papal mandate; later canonical Bishop of Rossano (Italy) (1422.05.20 – 1429)
Gaspare de Diano (1422 – 1438.02.23); previously Bishop of Teano (Italy) (1412.06.30 – 1418?); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Napoli (Naples) (Italy) (1438.02.23 – 1451.04.29)
Latino Orsini (1438.03.10 – 1439.06.08), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Trani (southern Italy) ([1438.11.21] 1439.06.08 – 1450.12.23), created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo (1449.01.03 – 1465.06.07), Bishop of Urbino (Italy) (1450.12.23 – 1452.09.11), Abbot Ordinary of Farfa (Italy; ?in commendam) (1450.12.23 – 1477.08.08), Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals first time (1451 – 1451), Apostolic Administrator of Bari–Canosa archdiocese (southern Italy) (1454.12.04 – 1472.11.06), Archpriest of Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (1463 – 1477.08.11), promoted Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (1465.06.07 – 1468.10.14), also Apostolic Administrator of Polignano (1468 – 1472), transferred Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1468.10.14 – 1477.08.11), again Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals (1469.11.13 – 1471.01.19), Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church of Reverend Apostolic Camera (1471.08.09 – 1477.08.11), Metropolitan Archbishop of Taranto (southern Italy) (1472.10.30 – death 1477.08.11)
Raimondo degli Ugotti, Italian Basilian Order of Grottaferrata (O.S.B.I.) (1439.07.03 – death 1455), previously Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy) (1423.07.23 – 1430.12.18), Bishop of Boiano (Italy) (1430.12.18 – 1439.07.03)
Giovanni Conti (1455.01.26 – retired 1484.10.01), also created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo (1483.11.15 – 1489.03.09), later demoted Cardinal-Deacon of S. Adriano al Foro in commendum (1485.10.18 – 1489.03.09), promoted back Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio (1489.03.09 – death 1493.10.20)
uncanonical Nicola Grato Conti (1484.10.01 – 1494.09.20), without papal mandate
Francesco Conti (1494.10.08 – 1517.09.11), later created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio (1517.07.06 – 1521.06.29)
Camillo Gesualdo (1517.09.11 – 1535.06.14)
Apostolic Administrator Andrea Matteo Palmieri (1535.06.15 – 1535.07.16), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera (Italy) (1518.07.30 – 1528.08.21), Cardinal-Priest of S. Clemente (1527.11.21 – 1537.01.20), also Apostolic Administrator in three more bishoprics
Niccolò Caetani (1539.08.08 – resigned 1546.05.05), previously Apostolic Administrator of Bisignano (Italy) (1537.03.05 – 1549.03.13), created Cardinal-Deacon of S. Nicola in Carcere (1538.04.16 – 1552.03.09); later Apostolic Administrator of Capua (Italy) (1546.05.05 – 1548), Apostolic Administrator of Quimper (Brittany, France) (1550.07.14 – 1560.04.05), promoted Cardinal-Priest of S. Eustachio pro hac vice Title (1552.03.09 – death 1585.05.01), again Apostolic Administrator of Bisignano (Italy) (1558.12.24 – 1560), again Apostolic Administrator of Capua (Italy) (1560 – 1572), again Apostolic Administrator of Bisignano (Italy) (1563 – 1563)
Apostolic Administrator Marcello Crescenzi (1546.05.05 – 1552.05.28), while Cardinal-Priest of S. Marcello (1542.11.06 – 1552.05.28), previously Bishop of Marsi (Italy) (1534.01.19 – 1546.05.17)
Ambrogio Catarino Politi, O.P. (1552.06.03 – death 1553.11.08)
Apostolic Administrator Alfonso Gesualdo (1561.04.14 – 1564.03.01 see below), while Cardinal-Deacon of S. Cecilia pro illa vice Deaconry (1561.03.10 – 1563.10.22) and next promoted Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia (1563.10.22 – 1572.10.17)
Alfonso Gesualdo (see above 1564.03.01 – 1572), as Cardinal transferred repeatedly Cardinal-Priest of S. Prisca (1572.10.17 – 1578.07.09), Cardinal-Priest of S. Anastasia (1578.07.09 – 1579.08.17), Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli (1579.08.17 – 1580.12.05), Cardinal-Priest of S. Clemente (1580.12.05 – 1583.03.04), promoted Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (1583.03.04 – 1587.12.02), Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Rites (1585 – ?), transferred Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1587.12.02 – 1589.03.02), then Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Porto e Santa Rufina (1589.03.02 – 1591.03.20), Cardinal Vice-Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals (1589.03.02 – 1591.03.20), Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia–Velletri (1591.03.20 – 1603.02.14), Cardinal Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals (1591.03.20 – 1603.02.14), Metropolitan Archbishop of Napoli (Italy) (1596.02.12 – 1603.02.14)
Salvatore Caracciolo (1572.11.19 – death 1573.11)
Marcantonio Pescara (1574.03.15 – death 1584)
Scipione Gesualdo (1584.11.28 – death 1608)
Bartolomeo Cesi (1608.03.10 – 1614), created Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Portico (1596.06.21 – 1611.12.05), Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli (1611.12.05 – 1613.01.07), transferred Cardinal-Priest of S. Prassede (1613.01.07 – 1620.08.31), Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere (1620.08.31 – 1621.03.29), Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina (1621.03.29 – death 1621.10.18), became Protopriest of Sacred College of Cardinals (1621.03.29 – 1621.10.18), Bishop of Tivoli (Italy) (1621.05.05 – 1621.10.18)
Curzio Cocci (1614.03.03 – death 1621.11)
Fabio della Leonessa (1622.02.21 – 1645), also Latin Titular Patriarch of Antioch (1634.11.20 – death 1667?)
Ercole Rangone (1645.04.24 – death 1650.02.13), previously Bishop of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Bisaccia (Italy) (1622.05.02 – 1645.04.24)
Fabrizio Campana, Celestine Benedictines (O.S.B. Cel.) (1651.05.22 – death 1667.09.17)
Giacomo Lenza, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (1667.11.14 – death 1672.08)
Paolo Caravita, Olivetans (O.S.B. Oliv.) (1673.01.16 – death 1681)
Gaetano Caracciolo (1682.04.30 – death 1709.08.11)
Francesco Paolo Nicolai (1716.09.02 – death 1731.08.11); previously Bishop of Capaccio (Italy) (1704.07.21 – 1716.09.02)
Giuseppe Nicolai (1731.08.09 – death 1758.10.27)
Marcello Capano Orsini (1759.02.12 – death 1765.06.28)
Cesare Antonio Caracciolo, Theatines (C.R.) (1765.12.09 – death 1776.10)
Ignazio Andrea Sambiase, C.R. (1776.12.16 – death 1799); previously Bishop of Teramo (Italy) (1767.02.16 – 1776.12.16)
Gioacchino Maria Mancusi (1805.06.26 – death 1811)
Michelangelo Lupoli (1818.05.25 – 1831.12.30), also Apostolic Administrator of Campagna (Italy) (1818.05.25 – 1831.12.30); previously Bishop of Irsina (Italy) (1797.12.18 – 1818.05.25); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Salerno (Italy) (1831.12.30 – death 1834.07.28)
Gennaro Pellini (1832.07.02 – death 1835.10.06), also Apostolic Administrator of Campagna (Italy) (1831 – 1835.10.06)
Leone Ciampa, Discalced Franciscans (O.F.M. Disc.) (1836.02.01 – 1848.12.22), also Apostolic Administrator of Campagna (Italy) (1836.02.01 – 1848.12.22); previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (Italy) (1829.05.18 – 1836.02.01); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Sorrento (Italy) (1848.12.22 – death 1854)
Giuseppe Pappalardo (1849 – death 1850); also Apostolic Administrator of Campagna (Italy) (1849 – 1850)
Grigorio De Luca (1850.05.20 – death 1878); also Apostolic Administrator of Campagna (Italy) (1850.05.20 – 1878)
Salvatore Nappi (1879.02.28 – death 1896.10.18), also Apostolic Administrator of Campagna (Italy) (1879.02.28 – 1896.10.18); previously Bishop of Nardò (Italy) (1873.12.22 – 1876.06.26) & Titular Bishop of Dioclea (1876.06.26 – 1879.02.28)
Antonio Buglione (1896.10.18 – death 1904.02.20), also Apostolic Administrator of Campagna (Italy) (1896.10.18 – 1904.02.20); previously Titular Bishop of Daulis (1891.01.01 – 1894.09.11) & Auxiliary Bishop of Conza (1891.01.01 – 1894.09.11), Titular Archbishop of Cæsarea Ponti (1894.09.11 – 1896.10.18) & Coadjutor Archbishop of Conza (1894.09.11 – succession 1896.10.18)
Nicola Piccirilli (1904.11.15 – 1917.09.25); also Apostolic Administrator of Campagna (Italy) (1904.11.15 – 1917.09.25); previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Severina (Italy) (1896.11.30 – 1904.11.15); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Lanciano (Italy) (1917.09.25 – death 1939.03.04)
Carmine Cesarano, Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) (1918.09.30 – 1921.09.30), also Apostolic Administrator of Campagna (Italy) (1918.09.30 – 1921.09.30); previously Bishop of Ozieri (Italy) (1915.04.18 – 1918.09.30); later Archbishop-Bishop of above Campagna (1921.09.30 – 1931.12.16), Archbishop-Bishop of Aversa (Italy) (1931.12.16 – 1935.11.22)
Metropolitan Archbishops of Conza–Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Bisaccia
Giulio Tommasi (1921.09.30 – death 1936.08.15), previously Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Bisaccia (Italy) (1897.04.19 – 1921.09.30), which see is merged into Conza; also Bishop of Lacedonia (Italy) (1928.01.20 – 1936.08.15)
Aniello Calcara (1937.08.30 – 1940.07.01); later Archbishop of Cosenza (Italy) (1940.07.01 – death 1961.07.05)
Antonio Melomo (1940.08.28 – death 1945.06.28); previously Bishop of Squillace (Italy) (1922.03.17 – 1927.02.07), Bishop of Monopoli (Italy) (1927.02.07 – 1940.08.28)
Apostolic Administrator Cristoforo Demonico Carullo, O.F.M. (1945 – 1946.09.15 'see below), remaining Bishop of Lacedonia (Italy) (1940.02.02 – death 1968.01.31)
Cristoforo Demonico Carullo, O.F.M. (see above 1946.09.15 – death 1968.01.31)
Apostolic Administrator Gastone Mojaisky-Perrelli (1964 – 1973.08.04 see below), previously papal diplomat: Apostolic Delegate to British East and West Africa (1957 – 1959), Apostolic Delegate to Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (1959.08.08 – 1962), Titular Archbishop of Amida (1959.08.08 – 1963.05.10), then Archbishop-Bishop of Nusco (Italy) (1963.05.10 – 1978.11.18)
Gastone Mojaisky-Perrelli (see above 1973.08.04 – retired 1978.11.18)
Mario Miglietta (1978.11.18 – retired 1981.02.21), also Bishop of Nusco (Italy) (1978.11.18 – 1981.02.21); later Archbishop-Bishop of Ugento–Santa Maria di Leuca (Italy) (1981.02.21 – retired 1992.11.14)
Antonio Nuzzi (1981.02.21 – 1986.09.30), also Bishop of Nusco (Italy) (1981.02.21 – 1986.09.30); first Archbishop of the non-metropolitan successor-see to both Archdiocese of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Conza–Nusco–Bisaccia (Italy) (1986.09.30 – 1988.12.31), Archbishop-Bishop of Teramo–Atri (Italy) (1988.12.31 – 2002.08.24)
Sights and monuments
Co-Cathedral: Concattedrale di S. Maria Assunta, Conza di Campania
