Diocese of Vallo della Lucania Dioecesis Vallensis in Lucania | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Salerno-Campagna-Acerno |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 1,562 km2 (603 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2020) 158,600 (est.) 156,600 (guess) |
| Parishes | 139 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 12th Century |
| Cathedral | Cattedrale di S. Pantaleone |
| Secular priests | 75 (diocesan) 16 (religious Orders) 9 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Ciro Miniero |
| Bishops emeritus | Giuseppe Rocco Favale |
| Website | |
| www.diocesivallodellalucania.it | |
The Italian Catholic Diocese of Capaccio was an historic diocese in Campania. The title came to be used in the second half of the 12th century, when the bishops of Pesto (Paestum) were driven from their seat by the Norman invasion led by Duke Robert Guiscard, and the town of Pesto was sacked and burned. Bishop Leonardus (1159) appears to have been the first to use the title episcopus Caputaquensis.[1] In 1851 it became the Diocese of Capaccio and Vallo.[2] Since 1945 it has been the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vallo della Lucania.