Arpaia
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Arpaia is a town, comune (municipality) and former (now titular) episcopal see in the Province of Benevento in the southern Italian region Campania, located about 35 km northeast of Naples and about 25 km southwest of Benevento.
Arpaia borders the following municipalities: Airola, Forchia, Paolisi and Roccarainola.
History
Arpaia, rather than present-day
Diocese of Caudium[4][5] (circa 400–600). The see was suppressed in 600, but in 1970 it was formally restored as the Latin Catholic titular see of Caudium.[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Resident population". Istat. 1 January 2020. Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Comune di Arpaia". Comuni Italiani. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, vol. 10, p. 283
- ^ Francesco Lanzoni, Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604), vol. I, Faenza 1927, p. 186
- ^ "Titular Episcopal See of Caudium". GCatholic. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
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