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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lettere-Gragnano was a Latin Catholic diocese located in the commune of
Lettere in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the southern-central Italian region Campania. In 1818, it was merged into the Diocese of Castellammare di Stabia.^[1][2]

History

• Established in 987?4 as Diocese of Lettere, Latin Name: Litteræ (adjective Litterensis), on territory split off from Diocese of Amalfi,^[2] near the site of Ancient Liternum.


• Renamed in 1169 as Diocese of Lettere–Gragnano,^[2] adding to its title coastal hill town Gragnano, now also a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples
  


• Suppressed on 27 June 1818, its territory being merged into the Diocese of Castellammare di Stabia^[2]
  


• 1968: Restored as Titular Episcopal See of Lettere^[2]
  

Episcopal ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of Lettere===

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Suffragan Bishops of Lettere-Gragnano

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• Pietro (1327.09.22 – death 1349)


• Giacomo Gioia, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1349.03.16 – death 1365?)


• Roberto De Casalinovo, O.F.M. (1366.06.08 – ?)


• Giuliano, O.F.M. (1371.08.11 – 1380?), next Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (Italy) (1380? – 1388.01.28), Bishop of Nicastro (Italy) (1388.01.28 – 1390)


• Tommaso (1384 – 1392.04.06), next Bishop of Ugento (Italy) (1392.04.06 – ?)


• Giovanni Da Pisa, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1392.03.11 – death 1403)


• Giacomo (1403.10.10 – ?)


• Francesco (1407.03.21 – death 1427)


• Cicco (1428.03.01 – ?)


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  Antonio de Celano (1440.09.26 – death 1456)


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  Gabriele Pontangeli (1456.01.30 – death 1478)


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  Antonio de Miraballis (1478.01.14 – death 1503)


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  Andrea Curiale (1503.07.07 – 1517 ?Resigned)


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  Valentino d'Apreja (De Apreis) (1517.03.23 – death 1539)


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  Bartolomeo Capobianco (1540.01.28 – death 1547)


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  Giovanni Antonio Pandosi (De Pantusa) (1547.02.14 – death 1562.10.27)


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  Sebastiano Leccavella, Order of Preachers (O.P.) (1562.12.16 – 1565 ?Resigned), previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Naxos (insular Greece) (1542.05.12 – 1562.12.16)


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  Giovanni Antonio Astorch (Astorco) (1565.11.07 – death 1567)


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  Bartolomeo Ferro, O.P. (1567.09.19 – 1570.05.10), next Bishop of Terni (Italy) (1570.05.10 – death 1581)


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  Filippo Fasio Capponi (1570.06.09 – death 1570)


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  Aurelio Griani, O.F.M. (1570.11.08 – death 1576)


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  Giovanni Bernardino Grandopoli (1576.09.19 – death 1590)


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  Giovanni Leonardo Bottiglieri (1591.01.14 – death 1599)


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  Francesco Brusco, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.) (1599.09.27 – death 1625),^[3]
  


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  Andrea Caputo (1625 – death 1650.03), succeeding as former Titular Bishop of Constantia in Arabia [it] (1622.07.11 – 1625) and Coadjutor Bishop of Lettere–Gragnano (1622.07.11 – 1625)


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  Onofrio de Ponte (1650.08.22 – death 1676.05.13)


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  Antonio Molinari (bishop) (1676.12.02 – death 1698.07.11)


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  Giovanni Cito (1698.12.22 – death 1708.10.15)


• Domenico Antonio Gagliano, Theatines (C.R.) (1709.10.14 – death 1713.07.05)


• Domenico Galisi (1718.01.24 – death 1730.02))


• Francesco Castelli (1730.11.22 – death 1733.03)


• Agostino Giannini (1733.04.13 – death 1767.02))


• Francesco d'Afflitto (1767.07.10 – death 1786.09.24)

BIOs TO ELABORATE

• Bartolomeo Criscuolo (1792–1793 Died)


• Bernardo Maria della Torre (1797–1818), next Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia ()

1818 Suppressed to the Diocese of Castellammare di Stabia

Titular see

In 1968 the diocese was nominally restored, under its original name, as Titular bishopric of Lettere (Curiate Italian) / Litteræ (Latin) / Litteren(sis) (Latin adjective) ^[2]

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank with an archiepiscopal exception :

• Titular Bishop: Giovanni Battista Cesana, Comboni Missionaries (M.C.C.J.) (1968.12.19 – death 1991.06.12) as emeritate; formerly Titular Bishop of Cerbali (1950.12.01 – 1953.03.25) as last Apostolic Vicar of Gulu (formerly Equatorial Nile, Uganda) (1950.12.01 – 1953.03.25), promoted first Bishop of Gulu (1953.03.25 – 1968.12.19)


• Titular Archbishop Luigi Travaglino (Italian) (1992.04.04 – ...) as papal diplomat : Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Gambia (1992.04.04 – 1995.05.02), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Guinea (1992.04.04 – 1995.05.02), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Liberia (1992.04.04 – 1995.05.02), Apostolic Nuncio (ambassador) to Nicaragua (1995.05.02 – 2001), Permanent Observer to Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2011.01.05 – 2015.02.12), Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco (2012.09.08 – 2016.01.16).

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Italy


• Catholic Church in Italy

References

Sources and external links

• GCatholic - data for all sections