Satrianum

The Diocese of Satrianum (Latin) or Satriano (Italian) is now a Roman Catholic titular see, that is, an episcopal see that is no longer a geographical diocese.[1] It takes its name from a now destroyed town situated in Lucania and was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Salerno. The adjectival form of the Latin name of the diocese is Satrianensis. The current titular archbishop is Patrick Coveney.

Ruins of Satriano
Detail of the 12th-century tower of Satriano

History of the see

The diocese was set up by Pope Urban II on 20 July 1098, and continued to exist even after the destruction of the town in 1430. On 19 July 1525 the diocese of Campagna was set up and was united with that of Satriano. In 1818 the diocese was suppressed and its territory was united with that of Conza.

Diocesan Bishops of Satriano

Records remain of the following Bishops of Satriano:

  • Pietro (mentioned in 1179)
  • Leone 1276 - ?
  • Lorenzo ? - 1303 (date of death)
  • Francesco ? - 1332 (death)
  • Arduino ? - 1332 (death)
  • Francesco da Spoleto, O.F.M. 1332 - ?
  • Giovanni 1349 - ?
  • Angelo Bartolomeo 1369 - ?
  • Tommaso 1388 - ?
  • Riccardo 1401 - ?
  • Andrea da Venezia, O.P. 1421 - ?
  • Pietro 1440 - ?
  • Giacomo 1443 - ?
  • Pietro Orseoli 1480 - ?
  • Ladislao 1483 - ?
  • Giorgio, O.S.B. ? - 12 June 1491 (transfer to the Diocese of Castro di Puglia)
  • Tommaso Attosi, O.P. 1491 - ?
  • Agostino Orti, O.P. 1500 - 1521
  • Cherubino Caietano, O.P. 1521 - 19 January 1525 (appointed Bishop of Campagna and Satriano)

Diocesan Bishops of Satriano and Campagna
  • Camillo Mantuano 1544 - 1560
  • Marco Lauro, O.P. 26 January 1560 - 1571
  • Girolamo Scarampi 16 July 1571 - August or September 1583 (death)
  • Flaminio Roverella 28 March 1584 - 1589 (resignation)
  • Giulio Cesare Guarnieri July 1591 - 1607 (death)
  • Berzellino de' Barzellini 1607 - 1617 (death)
  • Alessandro Scappi 1618 - 1628 (transfer to Diocese of Piacenza)
  • Costantino Testi 1628 - 1637
  • Alessandro Leparulo 1637 - 1644 (death)
  • Gaspare De Simone 1644 - 1644 (died before being consecrated)
  • Francesco Carducci 1644 - 1649 (transfer to Diocese of Sulmona)
  • Maria Giuseppe Avila, O.P. 1649 - 1656 (death)
  • Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, O.Cist. 1657 - 1673 (transfer to Diocese of Vigevano)
  • Domenico Tafuri 25 September 1673 - 1679 (death)
  • Girolamo Prignano 1 March 1680 - 2 August 1697 (death)
  • Giuseppe Bondola, O.F.M.Conv. 11 December 1697 - 4 February 1713 (death)
  • Francesco Saverio Fontana 22 May 1714 - 30 September 1736 (death)
  • Giovanni Anzani 19 September 1736 - 12 February 1770 (death)
  • Nicola Ferri 28 May 1770 - 1773 (death)
  • Marco De Leone 14 June 1773 - 1793 (death)

After the death of Marco De Leone, the see remained vacant until suppressed in 1818.

Titular bishops and archbishops

The town

Satriano (called Satrianum in Latin) was originally a Lucanian 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 Satriano in Calabria), 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. 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, and a better preserved 12th-century tower.

References
  1. Satrianum (Titular See). Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved on 18 December 2009.

Bibliography
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