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Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina | |
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | Naples |
Statistics | |
Area | 580 km2 (220 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2018) 62,200 (est.) 62,000 (est.) |
Parishes | 44 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 5th Century |
Cathedral | Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta (Alife) |
Co-cathedral | Concattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta (Caiazzo) |
Secular priests | 44 (diocesan) 6 (Religious Orders) 6 Permanent Deacons |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Giacomo Cirulli |
Bishops emeritus | Valentino Di Cerbo |
Map | |
Website | |
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The Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo (Latin: Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Campania, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year the historic Diocese of Alife was united with the Diocese of Caiazzo. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Naples.[1][2]