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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Alife
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A diocese made up of twelve communes in the province of Caserta, Archbishopric of Benevento, Italy. The name of a Bishop of Alife appears for the first time among the signatories of the Roman Synod of 499, in the time of Pope Symmachus (Clarus episcopus Ecclesiœ Allifanœ subscripsi —) "Monumenta Germaniæ Historica," auct. Antiquiss., XII, 400. It contains 17 parishes, 60 priests, 23,890 inhabitants.
Sources
CAPPELLETTI, Le chiese d'Italia (Venice, 1866), XIX, 89; UGHELLI, Italia Sacra (Venice, 1722), VIII, 206; GAMS, Series episcoporum Ecclesiæ catholicæ (Ratisbon, 1873), 847; D'AVINO, Cenni Storici (Naples, 1820), 8.
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Alife'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/alife.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Alife'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/alife.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
