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The Catholic Encyclopedia

Alife

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

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Alife, 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 FEcclesie Allifane subscripsi—) “Monumenta Germanize Historica,” auct. Antiquiss., XII, 400. It contains 17 parishes, 60 priests, 23,890 inhabitants.

CAPPELLETTI, Le chiese d’Italia (Venice, 1866), XIX, 89; UcuHetit, Italia Sacra (Venice, 1722), VIII, 206; Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesie catholice (Ratisbon, 1873), 847; D’Avino, Cenni Storici (Naples, 1820), 8.

Ernesto Buonaiuti.

Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907. Public domain.

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