Satrianum

The Diocese of Satrianum (Latin) or Satriano (Italian) is now a Roman Catholic titular see, that is, a former episcopal see that is no longer a geographical diocese. 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. Stephanus of Byzantium called it Satria ().

The titular archbishop until his death was Patrick Coveney.

History
The diocese of Satriano was established by Pope Urban II 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 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, O.Cist. (1657 -1673)
 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, O.S.B. 6 January 1972 - 25 May 1985 (created Cardinal Deacon of Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino)
 Archbishop Patrick Coveney 27 July 1985 - 22 October 2022

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.

See also
Roman Catholic Diocese of Satriano e Campagna

References

Bibliography

Episcopal lists

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