Roman Catholic Diocese of San Severo

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Parishes 34 Rite Latin Rite Area 1,270 km² Bishop Giovanni Checchinato		Denomination Catholic Church Established 16th century Country Italy

Population - Total - Catholics (as of 2014) 158,700 120,000 (75.6%) Cathedral Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino

The Italian Catholic Diocese of San Severo (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Severi) is in Apulia. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino.

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.

References

Roman Catholic Diocese of San Severo Wikipedia

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