Roman Catholic Diocese of Montemarano
The Diocese of Montemarano was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Montemarano in the province of Avellino in the Campania region of southern Italy. It was erected in 1059, and was a member of the ecclesiastical province of Benevento. In 1818, the diocese was suppressed, and its territory and Catholic population was assigned to the Diocese of Nusco. The diocese of Nusco has been absorbed, since 30 September 1986, into the agglomerate Archdiocese of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia.
The diocese of Montemarano was nominally restored as a titular bishopric in 1968, which were needed with the increase in the number of auxiliary bishops, vicars apostolic, papal nuncios, and Vatican bureaucrats who needed nominal episcopal status.
Bishops
1079 to 1500
- Giovanni, O.S.B.
- Giovanni II
- Matteo da Monteforte
- Rufinus
- Corrado
- Pietro
- Barbato
- Pietro
- Ponzio Excondevilla, O.P.
- Marco Manente Franceschi, O.Min.
- Andrea
- Nicola da Bisaccia
- Giacomo Cotelle, O.F.M.
- Antonio da Fontanarossa, O.Min.
- Agostino I
- Agostino II
- Martino
- Marino da Monopoli, O.F.M.
- Ladislao Dentice
- Agostino da Siena (bishop), O.F.M.
- Simeone Dantici, O.F.M.
- Antonio Bonito da Cueccaro, O.F.M.
- Giuliano Isopo, O.Carm.
1500 to 1805
- Pietro Giovanni de Melis, bishop-elect.
- Severo Petrucci
- Andrea Aloisi
- Giuliano Isopo, O. Carm.
- Gerolamo Isopo, Canons Regular of Lateran
- Antonio Gaspar Rodríguez, O.F.M., later Metropolitan Archbishop of Lanciano
- Marcantonio Alferio
- Silvestro Branconi
- Marcantonio Genovesi
- Eleuterio Albergone, O.F.M.Conv.
- Francesco Antonio Porpora
- Urbano Zambotti, C.R.Theat.
- Giuseppe Battaglia
- Giuseppe Labonia
- Giovanni Crisostomo Verchio, O.S.B.I.
- Giovanni Ghirardi
- Innocenzo Sanseverino
- Giuseppe Antonio Passanti
- Onofrio Maria Gennari
Titular see
The following bishops have held or hold the title; 'Archbishop' is a personal title, granted to a nuncio to give him status, but he is still 'titular bishop':- Bishop Alejo del Carmen Obelar Colman, Benedictine Order
- Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal.