Diocese of Capaccio

Diocese of Vallo della Lucania

Dioecesis Vallensis in Lucania
Location
CountryItaly
Ecclesiastical provinceSalerno-Campagna-Acerno
Statistics
Area1,562 km2 (603 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2020)
158,600 (est.)
156,600 (guess)
Parishes139
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established12th Century
CathedralCattedrale di S. Pantaleone
Secular priests75 (diocesan)
16 (religious Orders)
9 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopCiro Miniero
Bishops emeritusGiuseppe 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.

  1. ^ Kehr VIII, p. 368.
  2. ^ Umberto Benigni, "Caputaquensis et Vallensis", in: The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 3 (New York 1913); retrieved: 20 September 2022.