The

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of Satrianum (

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) or Satriano (

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) is now a

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, that is, a former

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that is no longer a geographical diocese. It takes its name from a now destroyed town situated in

Lucania Lucania was a historical region of Southern Italy. It was the land of the Lucani, an Oscan people. It extended from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. It bordered with Samnium and Campania in the north, Apulia in the east, and Brutti ...

and was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of

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. The adjectival form of the Latin name of the diocese is ''Satrianensis''.

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called it Satria ( grc, Σατρία). The titular archbishop until his death was

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History

The diocese of Satriano was established by

Pope Urban II Pope Urban II ( la, Urbanus II; – 29 July 1099), otherwise known as Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 March 1088 to his death. He is best known for convening th ...

on 20 July 1098. Its first bishop was Bishop Johannes, whose existence is attested in 1101. It continued to exist even after the destruction of the town in 1430. The city of Satriano was completely deserted, destroyed in 1430 on orders of Queen Johanna of Naples. At the request of the Emperor Charles V, in his capacity as King of Sicily,

Pope Clement VII Pope Clement VII ( la, Clemens VII; it, Clemente VII; born Giulio de' Medici; 26 May 1478 – 25 September 1534) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534. Deemed "the ...

created the diocese of Campagna on 20 May 1525, uniting it with the diocese of Satriano, ''aeque personaliter'' (two dioceses with one and the same bishop). Both were assigned to the metropolitanate of Salerno. The new bishop of Campagna was the Bishop of Satriano, Cherubino Caietani, who was installed as bishop of Campagna on 19 June 1525. The city of Campagna belonged to the Marchesi Grimaldi.

Extinction of the diocese

A concordat was signed on 16 February 1818, between Pope Pius VII and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. The right of the king to nominate the candidate for a vacant bishopric was recognized, as in the Concordat of 1741, subject to papal confirmation (preconisation). On 27 June 1818, Pius VII issued the bull ''De Ulteriore'', in which he reestablished the metropolitan archbishopric of Conza. At the same time he abolished the diocese of Satriano, which had been united ''aeque principaliter'' with the diocese of Campagna, and incorporated the territory of Satriano into the diocese of Campagna. The diocese of Campagna was assigned to the archdiocese of Conza, in such a way that the archbishop of Conza was also the perpetual administrator of the diocese of Campagna.

Bishops of Satriano

*Johannes (attested 1101, 1108) *Johannes (attested 1135) * Petrus (attested 1179) *Felix (attested 1208) :''Sede vacante'' (February 1222) *Nicola (attested 1223) * Leo (1267 - 1284?) * Laurentius ( ? - 1303) * Franciscus (1304 – ? ) * Arduino ( ? - 1332) * Francesco da Spoleto, O.F.M. (1332 - 1348) * Giovanni (1348 - 1369) * Angelo Bartolomeo (1369 - 1388?) * Guilelmus de S. Angelo (1388 – ? ) ''Avignon Obedience'' * Tommaso (1388 - 1419) ''Roman Obedience'' : Richardus (1401) :Cardinal Antonius Panciera (1419–1420) ''Administrator'' * Andrea da Venezia, O.P. (1420 - 1439) * Pietro Perili (1440 - 1442) * Giacomo, O.S.B. (1443 - ? ) * Pietro Orseoli (1480 - 1483) * Ladislaus (1483 - 1484) * Giorgio, O.S.B. (1484 - 12 June 1491) * Tommaso Attosi, O.P. (1491 - 1500) * Agostino Orti, O.P. (1500 - 1521) * Cherubino Caietano, O.P. (1521 - 1525)

Diocesan Bishops of Satriano and Campagna

*Cherubino Caietano, O.P. (1525 - 1544) *Camillo Mantuato (1544 - 1560) *Marco Lauro, O.P. (1560 - 1571) *Girolamo Scarampi (1571 - 1583) *Flaminio Roverella (1584 - 1589 resigned) *Giulio Cesare Guarnieri (1591 - 1607) *Barzellino de' Barzellini (1607 - 1618) *Alessandro Scappi (1618 -1627) * Costantino Testi (1628 - 1637) * Alessandro Leparulo (1637 - 1644) : Gaspare De Simone (1644) * Francesco Carducci (1644 - 1649) * Maria Giuseppe Avila, O.P. (1649 - 1656) *

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, 23 May 1606 in Madrid — 7 or 8 September 1682 in Vigevano) was a Spanish Catholic scholastic philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician and writer. He is believed to be a great-grandson of J ...

, O.Cist. (1657 -1673)Caramuel was born in Madrid in 1606, son of the Bohemian Lorenzo Caramuel y Lobkowitz. He studied in Alcalà. On 9 July 1657, he was named Bishop of Campagna by

Pope Alexander VII Pope Alexander VII ( it, Alessandro VII; 13 February 159922 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death in May 1667. He began his career as a vice- papal legate, an ...

. On 25 September 1673, he was transferred to the diocese of Vigevano by

Pope Clement X Pope Clement X ( la, Clemens X; it, Clemente X; 13 July 1590 – 22 July 1676), born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 April 1670 to his death in July 1676. Elected pope at ag ...

. He died on 8 September 1682. David Fernández Diéguez
''Juan Caramuel, matematico Español del siglo XVII''
(Madrid 1919). Ughelli VII, pp. 461-462. Gauchat IV, p. 132 with note 8. Ritzler & Sefrin, ''Hierarchia catholica'' V, pp. 139, note 2; 415 with note 4. * Domenico Tafuri (25 September 1673 - 1679) * Girolamo Prignano (1 March 1680 - 2 August 1697) * Giuseppe Bondola, O.F.M.Conv. (11 December 1697 - 4 February 1713) * Francesco Saverio Fontana (22 May 1714 - 30 September 1736) * Giovanni Anzani (19 September 1736 - 12 February 1770) * Nicola Ferri (28 May 1770 - 1773) * Marco De Leone (14 June 1773 - 1793) After the death of Marco De Leone, the see remained vacant until suppressed in 1818.

Titular bishops and archbishops

* Bishop Ramón Iglesias Navarri 29 April 1969 - 11 December 1970 * Archbishop

Paul Augustin Mayer Paul Augustin Mayer, OSB (23 May 1911 – 30 April 2010) was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He held various positions in the Roman Curia from 1971 to 1991. Biography Mayer was born in Altötting, Germany, which is located nea ...

, O.S.B. 6 January 1972 - 25 May 1985 (created Cardinal Deacon of

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) * Archbishop

27 July 1985 - 22 October 2022

The town

Satriano (called Satrianum in Latin) was originally a

n town. Excavations have brought to light traces of a small rectangular temple with a banqueting hall, an area for religious ceremonies and a portico. The town was situated at 950 metres above sea level on the top of a hill overlooking the modern town that since 1887 is called Satriano di Lucania (not to be confused with another town called

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), and which, before taking the name of the destroyed city, was called Pietrafesa and, earlier, Petrafixa. Documents from the ninth century AD onward mention Satriano, which was definitively destroyed in 1430 by order of Queen

Joan II of Naples Joanna II (25 June 1371 – 2 February 1435) was reigning Queen of Naples from 1414 to her death, upon which the Capetian House of Anjou became extinct. As a mere formality, she used the title of Queen of Jerusalem, Sicily, and Hungary. Earl ...

. It is recounted that the queen ordered that it be burned to the ground because of the abduction there of a lady in waiting of the court who was passing through. The inhabitants moved to Pietrafesa. All that remains are some ruins, including those of the cathedral, which was dedicated to

Saint Stephen Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ...

, and a better preserved 12th-century tower.

References

Bibliography

Episcopal lists

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Studies

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' München: Wilhelm Fink 1975. * Kehr, Paul Fridolin (1962). ''Regesta pontificum Romanorum. Italia pontificia
Vol.IX: Samnium—Apulia—Lucania
''. ed. Walter Holtzmann. Berlin: Weidemann. p. 518. *Mattei-Cerasoli, Leone (1919)
"Da archivii e biblioteche: Di alcuni vescovi poco noti"
. In: ''Archivio storico per le province Neapolitane'' 44 (Napoli: Luigi Lubrano 1919). pp. 310-335. * Moroni, Gaetano
''Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni''
vol. LXI, Venezia 1853, pp. 289–291. *Spera, G. (1887). ''L'antica Satriano in Lucania.'' Cava dei Tirreni: 1887. *Rivelli, Antonio Vincenzo (1894).
Memorie storiche della città di Campagna
'' . Salerno: Volpe 1894. *{{cite book, last1=Ughelli, first1=Ferdinando, last2=Coleti, first2=Niccolo, title=Italia sacra sive De episcopis Italiæ, et insularum adjacentium, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KQPFIUrZ_OkC, volume=Tomus sextus (6), year=1720, publisher=apud Sebastianum Coleti, location=Venice, language=Latin, pages=852–854

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