The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lettere-Gragnano was a Latin Catholic diocese located in the commune of Lettere in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the southern-central Italian region Campania. In 1818, it was merged into the Diocese of Castellammare di Stabia.
Established in 987?4 as Diocese of Lettere, Latin Name: Litterensis, on territory split off from Diocese of Amalfi, near the site of Ancient Liternum.Renamed in 1169 as Diocese of Lettere–Gragnano, adding to its title coastal hill town Gragnano, now also a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of NaplesSuppressed on 27 June 1818, its territory being merged into the Diocese of Castellammare di Stabia1968: Restored as Titular Episcopal See of LettereSuffragan Bishops of Lettere===unavailable
...Suffragan Bishops of Lettere-Gragnanofirst centuries unavailable
...Pietro (1327.09.22 – death 1349)Giacomo Gioia, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1349.03.16 – death 1365?)Roberto De Casalinovo, O.F.M. (1366.06.08 – ?)Giuliano, O.F.M. (1371.08.11 – 1380?), next Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (Italy) (1380? – 1388.01.28), Bishop of Nicastro (Italy) (1388.01.28 – 1390)Tommaso (1384 – 1392.04.06), next Bishop of Ugento (Italy) (1392.04.06 – ?)Giovanni Da Pisa, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1392.03.11 – death 1403)Giacomo (1403.10.10 – ?)Francesco (1407.03.21 – death 1427)Cicco (1428.03.01 – ?)Antonio de Celano (1440.09.26 – death 1456)Gabriele Pontangeli (1456.01.30 – death 1478)Antonio de Miraballis (1478.01.14 – death 1503)Andrea Curiale (1503.07.07 – 1517 ?Resigned)Valentino d’Apreja (De Apreis) (1517.03.23 – death 1539)Bartolomeo Capobianco (1540.01.28 – death 1547)Giovanni Antonio Pandosi (De Pantusa) (1547.02.14 – death 1562.10.27)Sebastiano Leccavella, Order of Preachers (O.P.) (1562.12.16 – 1565 ?Resigned), previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Naxos (insular Greece) (1542.05.12 – 1562.12.16)Giovanni Antonio Astorch (Astorco) (1565.11.07 – death 1567)BIOs TO ELABORATE
Bartolomeo Ferro, O.P. (1567–1570 Appointed, Bishop of Terni)Filippo Fasio Capponi (1570–1570 Died)Aurelio Griani, O.F.M. (1570–1576 Died)Giovanni Bernardino Grandopoli (1576–1590 Died)Giovanni Leonardo Bottiglieri (1591–1599 Died)Francesco Brusco (1599–1625 Died)Andrea Caputo (1625–1650 Died)Onofrio de Ponte (1650–1676 Died)Antonio Molinari (bishop) (1676–1698 Died)Giovanni Cito (1698–1708 Died)Domenico Antonio Gagliano, C.R. (1709–1713 Died)Domenico Galisi (1718–1730 Died)Francesco Castelli (1730–1733 Died)Agostino Giannini (1733–1767 Died)Francesco d'Afflitto (1767–1786 Died)Bartolomeo Criscuolo (1792–1793 Died)Bernardo Maria della Torre (1797–1818 Confirmed, Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia)1818 Suppressed to the Diocese of Castellammare di Stabia
In 1968 the diocese was nominally restored, under its original name, as Titular bishopric of Lettere (Curiate Italian) / Litteræ (Latin) / Litteren(sis) (Latin adjective)
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank with an archiepiscopal exception :
Titular Bishop: Giovanni Battista Cesana, Comboni Missionaries (M.C.C.J.) (1968.12.19 – death 1991.06.12) as emeritate; formerly Titular Bishop of Cerbali (1950.12.01 – 1953.03.25) as last Apostolic Vicar of Gulu (formerly Equatorial Nile, Uganda) (1950.12.01 – 1953.03.25), promoted first Bishop of Gulu (1953.03.25 – 1968.12.19)Titular Archbishop Luigi Travaglino (Italian) (1992.04.04 – ...) as papal diplomat : Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Gambia (1992.04.04 – 1995.05.02), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Guinea (1992.04.04 – 1995.05.02), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Liberia (1992.04.04 – 1995.05.02), Apostolic Nuncio (ambassador) to Nicaragua (1995.05.02 – 2001), Permanent Observer to Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2011.01.05 – 2015.02.12), Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco (2012.09.08 – 2016.01.16). 