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==History==
==History==
After the Lombard invasions, Isernia was the seat of a countship, founded by the [[Duke of Benevento]]. It was destroyed by the Saracens in the ninth century, and in 1199 was sacked by [[Markward von Annweiler]], the vicar of the deceased [[Emperor Henry VI]]. In 1805 it was struck by [[1805 Molise earthquake|a severe earthquake]], which ruined the ancient cathedral.
After the Lombard invasions, Isernia was the seat of a countship, founded by the [[Duke of Benevento]]. It was destroyed by the Saracens in the ninth century. In 847, the entire city of Isernia was destroyed with great loss of life.<ref>{{cite book|author= Mario Baratta |title=I terremoti d'Italia |trans-title= Earthquakes in Italy |url=https://archive.org/details/iterremotidital00baragoog|year=1901|publisher=Fratelli Bocca |location=Turin |language=it|page=15}}: "Per questo parossismo Isernia fu quasi interamente distrutta con grande numero di vittime : presso il monastero di S. Vincenzo parecchie case furono rovinate."</ref>
In 1199 it was sacked by [[Markward von Annweiler]], the vicar of the deceased [[Emperor Henry VI]]. On 5 December 1456, another great earthquake caused heavy damage and deaths in the area of Isernia.<ref>Baratta, p. 70: "Isernia (Campobasso) — distrutta: morti 1200 circa;" p. 73: "Venafro (Campobasso) — fu grandemente danneggiato."</ref> In 1805, Isernia was struck by [[1805 Molise earthquake|a severe earthquake]], which ruined the ancient cathedral.<ref>Baratta, p. 792.</ref>


The epoch of Bishop Benedict, and indeed his very existence, is without any documentary evidence at all. It is even claimed that he had predecessors, beginning with Poltinus, who was consecrated a bishop by Saint Peter the Apostle himself.<ref>Sannicola, in: D'Avino, p. 272.</ref> That the existence of the episcopal see in the fifth century is certain is likewise a doubtful proposition.<ref>Ughelli VI, p. 366. Kehr VIII, p. 242: "In antiqua hac Samnitum civitate iam olim episcopatus quin exstiterit dubium non est, etsi notitiae ante saec. X de episcopis servatae minima fide dignae sunt."</ref> though each of the purported bishops has been assigned to other dioceses.<ref>Francesco Lanzoni (1927), ''[https://archive.org/stream/MN5017ucmf_0#page/n281/mode/2up Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604)]'', {{in lang|it}}, (Faenza: F. Lega), p.&nbsp;380: "un s. Benedetto; ma pienamente sconosciuto (cf. ''A(cta) S(anctorum), mai, I, 500). Seguono nel catalogo Ughelliano un Laurentius (401-17), un Eutodius (465), un Marias (499), un Innocentius (501-2) e un Sebastianus (595) ; ma tutti fuori di luogo. II primo è detto nel documenti {J-L, 318) « episcopus seniensis », probabilmente dell' Illirico; il secondo, il terzo e il quarto spettano a Tifernum (Città di Castello); e l'ultimo a Resinum nella Dalmazia {J-L, 1096; 1853)." Cappelletti XX, pp. 128-129.</ref>
The epoch of Bishop Benedict, and indeed his very existence, is without any documentary evidence at all. It is even claimed that he had predecessors, beginning with Poltinus, who was consecrated a bishop by Saint Peter the Apostle himself.<ref>Sannicola, in: D'Avino, p. 272.</ref> That the existence of the episcopal see in the fifth century is certain is likewise a doubtful proposition.<ref>Ughelli VI, p. 366. Kehr VIII, p. 242: "In antiqua hac Samnitum civitate iam olim episcopatus quin exstiterit dubium non est, etsi notitiae ante saec. X de episcopis servatae minima fide dignae sunt."</ref> though each of the purported bishops has been assigned to other dioceses.<ref>Francesco Lanzoni (1927), ''[https://archive.org/stream/MN5017ucmf_0#page/n281/mode/2up Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604)]'', {{in lang|it}}, (Faenza: F. Lega), p.&nbsp;380: "un s. Benedetto; ma pienamente sconosciuto (cf. ''A(cta) S(anctorum), mai, I, 500). Seguono nel catalogo Ughelliano un Laurentius (401-17), un Eutodius (465), un Marias (499), un Innocentius (501-2) e un Sebastianus (595) ; ma tutti fuori di luogo. II primo è detto nel documenti {J-L, 318) « episcopus seniensis », probabilmente dell' Illirico; il secondo, il terzo e il quarto spettano a Tifernum (Città di Castello); e l'ultimo a Resinum nella Dalmazia {J-L, 1096; 1853)." Cappelletti XX, pp. 128-129.</ref>

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Diocese of Isernia-Venafro

Dioecesis Aeserniensis-Venafrensis
Cathedral of Isernia
Standort
LandItalien
Ecclesiastical provinceCampobasso-Boiano
Statistics
Area740 km2 (290 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2019)
63,800 (est.)
62,800 (guess)
Parishes48
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established5th Century
CathedralCattedrale di S. Pietro Apostolo (Isernia)
Co-cathedralConcattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Venafro)
Secular priests41 (diocesan)
22 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopCamillo Cibotti
Website
www.diocesiiserniavenafro.it

The Italian Catholic diocese of Isernia-Venafro (Latin: Dioecesis Aeserniensis-Venafrensis) in Molise, is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Campobasso-Boiano. In 1852 the historic diocese of Isernia was combined with the diocese of Venafro, to form the diocese of Isernia e Venafro.[1][2] The seat of the present bishop is Isernia Cathedral, while Venafro Cathedral has become a co-cathedral in the new diocese.

History

After the Lombard invasions, Isernia was the seat of a countship, founded by the Duke of Benevento. It was destroyed by the Saracens in the ninth century. In 847, the entire city of Isernia was destroyed with great loss of life.[3] 

In 1199 it was sacked by Markward von Annweiler, the vicar of the deceased Emperor Henry VI. On 5 December 1456, another great earthquake caused heavy damage and deaths in the area of Isernia.[4] In 1805, Isernia was struck by a severe earthquake, which ruined the ancient cathedral.[5]

The epoch of Bishop Benedict, and indeed his very existence, is without any documentary evidence at all. It is even claimed that he had predecessors, beginning with Poltinus, who was consecrated a bishop by Saint Peter the Apostle himself.[6] That the existence of the episcopal see in the fifth century is certain is likewise a doubtful proposition.[7] though each of the purported bishops has been assigned to other dioceses.[8]

In 1032 the Diocese of Venafro (formerly the seat of Roman country residences), which had its own bishops from the fifth century, was united to Isernia,[9] and in 1230 it was again separated.

On 12 November 1192, the city of Venafro was sacked and burned by the German troops of the Emperor Henry VI, led by Duke Bertold. Bishop Gentile was forced to flee. He sought refuge in Aversa, whose leaders persuaded him to become their bishop.[10] The ecclesiastical leaders in Venafro and in Isernia immediately began to air various grievances against one another, which led to litigation. Numerous citations of the parties to appear before Cardinal Gerardo of S. Adriano, the judge whom Pope Celestine III had appointed, were ignored or put off to a later time. Exasperated, the cardinal authorized the chapter of the Cathedral at Venafro to proceed to elect their own bishop.[11] The Chapter elected Johannes de Abner, but when the pope heard that they had chosen someone who was not even in Holy Orders, he voided the election.[12] Finally, in 1195, he confirmed one R[ - - -] as the new bishop of Venafro.[13] Since the absence of a bishop at Isernia was causing great detriment, Pope Celestine appointed R., the bishop-elect of Venafro, to be the bishop of Isernia as well, ordering the Chapter to obey R. as if they had elected him themselves.[14]

On 18 June 1852, in the bull "Sollicitudinem Animarum", Pope Pius IX united the diocese of Isernia and the diocese of Venafro under the governance of one single bishop, aeque personaliter, to be called the diocese of Isernia e Venafro.[15]

Bishops

Diocese of Isernia

Erected: 5th Century
Aeserninensis

...
  • Odelgarius (attested 877)[16]
...
  • Gerardus (attested 1032)[17]
...
  • Petrus of Ravenna, O.S.B. (attested c. 1059)[18]
...
  • Gentile (attestedd 1192)[19]
Sede vacante (1192 – 1195)
  • [R - - -] (attested 1195)[20]
  • Darius (1207 – 1211)[21]
  • Theodorus
  • Hugo (attested 1244)
  • Nicolaus
  • Henricus da S. Germano, O.Min. (1267 – 1276)[22]
  • Matthaeus (1276 – 1287?)
  • Robertus
  • Jacobus
  • Petrus
...
...

Diocese of Isernia e Venafro

United: 18 June 1852 with Diocese of Venafro

  • Antonio Izzo (23 Feb 1872 – 24 Oct 1879 Died)
  • Agnello Renzullo (27 Feb 1880 – 23 Jun 1890 Appointed, Bishop of Nola)
  • Francesco Paolo Carrano (4 Jun 1891 – 16 Jan 1893 Appointed, Archbishop of L'Aquila)
  • Nicola Maria Merola (12 Jun 1893 – 24 Sep 1915 Died)
  • Nicola Rotoli, O.F.M. (28 Mar 1916 – 27 Apr 1932 Died)
  • Francesco Pietro Tesauri (13 Mar 1933 – 25 May 1939 Appointed, Archbishop of Lanciano e Ortona)
  • Alberto Carinci (25 Mar 1940 – 28 Apr 1948 Appointed, Bishop of Boiano-Campobasso)
  • Giovanni Lucato, S.D.B. (21 Jun 1948 – 1 May 1962 Died)
  • Achille Palmerini (11 Jul 1962 – 7 Apr 1983 Retired)
  • Ettore Di Filippo (7 Apr 1983 – 28 Oct 1989 Appointed, Archbishop of Campobasso-Boiano)
  • Andrea Gemma, F.D.P. (7 Dec 1990 – 5 Aug 2006 Retired)
  • Salvatore Visco (5 Apr 2007 – 30 Apr 2013 Appointed, Archbishop of Capua)
  • Camillo Cibotti (8 May 2014 – )

See also

References

  1. ^ "Diocese of Isernia-Venafro" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David m. Cheney. Retrieved January 30, 2016
  2. ^ "Diocese of Isernia-Venafro" GCatholic. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved January 30, 2016
  3. ^ Mario Baratta (1901). I terremoti d'Italia [Earthquakes in Italy] (in Italian). Turin: Fratelli Bocca. p. 15.: "Per questo parossismo Isernia fu quasi interamente distrutta con grande numero di vittime : presso il monastero di S. Vincenzo parecchie case furono rovinate."
  4. ^ Baratta, p. 70: "Isernia (Campobasso) — distrutta: morti 1200 circa;" p. 73: "Venafro (Campobasso) — fu grandemente danneggiato."
  5. ^ Baratta, p. 792.
  6. ^ Sannicola, in: D'Avino, p. 272.
  7. ^ Ughelli VI, p. 366. Kehr VIII, p. 242: "In antiqua hac Samnitum civitate iam olim episcopatus quin exstiterit dubium non est, etsi notitiae ante saec. X de episcopis servatae minima fide dignae sunt."
  8. ^ Francesco Lanzoni (1927), Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604), (in Italian), (Faenza: F. Lega), p. 380: "un s. Benedetto; ma pienamente sconosciuto (cf. A(cta) S(anctorum), mai, I, 500). Seguono nel catalogo Ughelliano un Laurentius (401-17), un Eutodius (465), un Marias (499), un Innocentius (501-2) e un Sebastianus (595) ; ma tutti fuori di luogo. II primo è detto nel documenti {J-L, 318) « episcopus seniensis », probabilmente dell' Illirico; il secondo, il terzo e il quarto spettano a Tifernum (Città di Castello); e l'ultimo a Resinum nella Dalmazia {J-L, 1096; 1853)." Cappelletti XX, pp. 128-129.
  9. ^ Ughelli VI, p. 394: "...consecravimus praesulem eorum jam supradictum Gerardum confratrem nostrum gubernanei ac regendi praedicta Ecclesia cum omnibus suis ecclesiis, sive monasteriis infra eodem Comitatu Iserniensis, et Comitatyu Venafrano, et infra Comitatu BOjonensis, et in tota terra pertinentes monasterii S. Vincentii." Cappelletti XX, p. 157.
  10. ^ K. Hampl, "Der schlimme Bischof Gentilis von Aversa," Mitteilungen aus der Capuaner Briefsammlung, III, (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1911) [Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaten. 1911], p. 4. Kehr VIII, p. 240, no. 6, with note.
  11. ^ Kehr VIII, p. 240, nos. 6 and 7. This would have taken place in 1193 and 1194.
  12. ^ Kehr VIII, p. 240, no. 8.
  13. ^ Kehr VIII, p. 241, no. 9. The pope says explicitly that the strife had gone on for two years and more.
  14. ^ Kehr VIII, p. 241, nos. 9, 10, 11.
  15. ^ Collezione degli atti emanati dopo la pubblicazione del Concordato dell'anno 1818 Vol. 13 (Napoli: Stamp. dell'Iride, 1854), (in Italian and Latin), pp. 42-66.
  16. ^ Bishop Odelgarius attended the Council of Ravenna of Pope John VIII in November 877, and subscribed the official letter. J.D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus XVII (Venice: A. Zatta 1772), p. 342. Cappelletti XX, p. 156.
  17. ^ Gerardus was consecrated bishop of Isernia at the request of the clergy of Isernia by Archbishop Adenulphus of Capua on 17 October 1032. The certificate of consecration and confirmation of privileges and properties is also signed by Bishop Jaquintus. Ughelli VI, pp. 394-395.
  18. ^ Pope Nicholas II (1058–1061) consecrated Petrus, a monk of Montecassino, as bishop of Venafro and Isernia. Kehr VIII, p. 243, no. 1. "Chronicon Casinense" III. 14, in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptorum Tomus VII, p. 706.
  19. ^ Bishop Gentile was forced to flee from Venafro in November 1192, and seek refuge in Aversa. K. Hampl, "Der schlimme Bischof Gentilis von Aversa," Mitteilungen aus der Capuaner Briefsammlung, III, (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1911) [Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaten. 1911], p. 4. Kehr VIII, p. 240, no. 6, with note.
  20. ^ It has been presumed that R. was bishop until 1207.
  21. ^ Darius: Eubel I, p. 286.
  22. ^ Henricus: Ughelli VI, p. 398, no. 19. Eubel I, p. 287.
  23. ^ On 18 December 1389, Maroni was appointed Cardinal-Priest of San Ciriaco alle Terme Diocleziane by Pope Boniface IX. He died on 4 December 1404. Eubel I, pp. 25, no. 4; 287.
  24. ^ a b c d Eubel, Konrad (1914). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. II (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 169. (in Latin)
  25. ^ a b c d e Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 214. (in Latin)
  26. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 211.
  27. ^ "Bishop Paolo De Curtis, C.R." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved November 24, 2016

Bibliography

Episcopal lists

Studies

  • Benigni, Umberto. "Isernia and Venafro." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. Retrieved: 14 November 2022.


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