Roman Catholic Diocese of Nusco

Diocese of Nusco was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Campania, southern Italy, existing until 1986. In that year it was united into the archdiocese of Conza-Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Bisaccia, to form the Archdiocese of Conza-Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Nusco-Bisaccia.[1][2] It was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Salerno.

Cathedral in Nusco

History

Nusco is in the province of Avellino. The diocese dates from the eleventh century. Among its bishops were

• Guido (1004);
• St. Amatus of Nusco (1167), author of a history of the Normans in Apulia and Calabria;
• Roger (1198), who restored the cathedral;
• Cardinal Pietro Paolo Parisio (1538), who presided at the Council of Trent;
• Francesco Arcudio (1639), a Theatine;
• Fulgenzio Arminio Monforte (1669), an Augustinian.

In 1820 the diocese of Montemartino was united to Nusco. St. John, a Benedictine (1084) was the first Bishop of Montemartino; forty of his successors are known.[3]

Ordinaries of the Diocese of Nusco

• Giovannuccio Pasquali, O.F.M. (1446 – 1471 Died)
• Stefano Moscatelli (11 October 1471 – 1485 Died)
• Antonio Maramaldo (21 November 1485 – 1514 Died)
• Marino Acciabianca (1514 – 1523 Resigned)
• Gerolamo Acciabianca (17 June 1523 – 1537 Died)
• Pietro Paolo Parisio (11 January 1538 – 11 May 1545 Died)
• Luigi Cavalcanti (1 June 1545 – 30 January 1563 Appointed, Bishop of Bisignano)
• Alessandro Gadaletta (30 January 1563 – 1572 Died)
• Pietro Persio (23 Jan 1573 – 1578 Died)
• Patrizio Lunato Laosio (15 October 1578 – 22 April 1602 Died)
• Lazaro Pellizzari, O.P. (20 Nov 1602 – 1 Oct 1607 Appointed, Bishop of Modena)
• Giovanni Battista Zuccato (19 November 1607 – 1614 Resigned)
• Michael Rezzi (Resti) (9 Jul 1614 – 8 August 1639 Appointed, Bishop of Ascoli Satriano)
• Francesco Arcudio, C.R. (19 Dec 1639 – 7 Oct 1641 Died)
• Giovanni Mauro, O.F.M. Conv. (13 Jan 1642 – 1 November 1644 Died)
• Aniello Campagna (6 Mar 1645 – Jan 1648 Died)
• Pietro Paolo Russo (1 Mar 1649 – May 1657 Died)
• Benedetto Rocci, O. Carm. (6 May 1658 – October 1661 Died)
• Angelo Picchetti (16 January 1662 – 28 September 1668 Died)
• Fulgenzio Arminio Monforte, O.S.A. (1 Apr 1669 – 1680 Resigned)
• Benedetto Giacinto Sangermano (7 October 1680 – 7 June 1702 Died)
• Giacinto Dragonetti, C.O. (5 Mar 1703 – 11 Sep 1724 Appointed, Bishop of Marsi)
• Nicolò Tupputi (11 September 1724 – January 1740 Died)
• Gaetano d’Arco (6 March 1741 – 25 May 1753 Died)
• Francesco Antonio Bonaventura (26 November 1753 – 15 June 1788 Died)
• Francesco Saverio de Vivo (27 February 1792 Confirmed – 1797 Died)
• Matteo Aceto (21 December 1818 – 1819 Died)
• Pasquale de Nicolais (21 February 1820 – 15 May 1835 Died)
• Francesco-Paolo Mastropasqua (2 October 1837 Confirmed – 26 June 1848 Died)
• Giuseppe Autelitano (28 September 1849 – 11 January 1854 Died)
• Michele Adinolfi (30 November 1854 – 23 March 1860 Confirmed, Bishop of Nocera de' Pagani)
• Gaetano Stiscia (23 March 1860 – 24 April 1870 Died)
• Giovanni Acquaviva, C.O. (22 December 1871 – 26 January 1893 Died)
• Giuseppe Consenti, C.SS.R. (26 January 1893 – 12 June 1893 Appointed, Bishop of Lucera)
• Emilio Alfonso Todisco Grande (12 June 1893 – August 1896 Died)
• Michele Arcangelo Pirone (30 November 1896 – 6 February 1909 Died)
• Angelo Giacinto Scapardini, O.P. (29 April 1909 – 10 September 1910)
• Luigi Paulini (11 September 1911 – 10 March 1919 Appointed, Bishop of Concordia)
• Pasquale Mores (15 December 1919 – 31 January 1950 Retired)
• Guido Maria Casullo (29 May 1951 – 11 February 1963 Appointed, Auxiliary Bishop of Pinheiro)
• Gastone Mojaisky-Perrelli (10 May 1963 – 18 November 1978 Resigned)
• Mario Miglietta (18 November 1978 – 21 February 1981 Appointed, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca)
• Antonio Nuzzi (21 February 1981 – 30 September 1986 Appointed, Archbishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia)

References

1. "Diocese of Nusco". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
2. GCatholic.org: "Diocese of Nusco" retrieved February 17, 2016
3. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Nusco

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Nusco". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
• Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia, XX.