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Nusco
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Article Text
(NUSCANA)
Diocese in the province of Avellino, Italy, suffragan of Salerno; dates from the eleventh century. Among its bishops were
- Guido (1004);
- St. Amatus (1167), author of a history of the Normans in Apulia and Calabria;
- Roger (1198), who restored the cathedral;
- Cardinal Pietro Paolo Parisio (1538), who presided at the Council of Trent;
- Francesco Arcudio (1639), a Theatine;
- Fulgenzio Arminio Monforte (1669), an Augustinian.
In 1820 Montemartino was united to Nusco. St. John, a Benedictine (1084) was the first Bishop of Montemartino; forty of his sucessors are known. Nusco has 19 parishes, with 38,300 inhabitants, and 4 religious houses.
Sources
CAPPELLETTI, Le Chiese d’Italia, XX.
Source Record
- Author
- Benigni, Umberto
- Publication
- The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1911.
- Nihil Obstat
- Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.
- Imprimatur
- Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.