Bisaccia

Bisaccia
Comune
Comune di Bisaccia
Bisaccia Location of Bisaccia in Italy
Coordinates:
Country	Italy
Region	Campania
Province / Metropolitan city	(AV)
Frazioni	Calaggio, Macchitella, Oscata, Pastina, Pedurza, Piani San Pietro, Tuoro
Area
• Total	101.41 km2 (39.15 sq mi)
Elevation	860 m (2,820 ft)
Population (2005)
• Total	4,148
• Density	41/km2 (110/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Bisaccesi
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	83044
Dialing code	0827
Patron saint	Sant'Antonio di Padova
Saint day	13 June
Website	Official website

Bisaccia is an Italian town and comune, population 4,382, situated in the province of Avellino. It borders the communes of Andretta, Aquilonia, Calitri, Guardia Lombardi, Lacedonia, Scampitella and Vallata.

Bisaccia has its own Bisaccese dialect.

History

Bisaccia's Castle, made by the Lombards, was repaired by Emperor Frederick II, who went to hunt in the woods near Bisaccia. Famous writers as Torquato Tasso and Francesco de Sanctis visited Bisaccia.

After the Irpinia earthquake in 1980, a new town was built near the historic centre.

Ecclesiastical History

It has a bishopric from before 1100.

In 1540 it as sSuppressed and its territory merged into the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Bisaccia, which became the present Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Conza–Nusco–Bisaccia.

Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite; probably incomplete)

• Basilio (1097? – ?)
• Riccardo (1179? – ?)
• Lodato (1254.09.30 – ?)
• Zaccaria (1265 – death 1282)
• Benedetto (1282 – 1288.04.20), later Bishop of Avellino (Italy) (1288.04.20 – death 1294)
• Giacomo (1311.05.19 – death 1328), previously Bishop of La Canea (Greece; ? – 1311.05.19)
• Bestagno, Dominican Order O.P. (1329.09.11 – 1351)
• Nicola, O.P. (1351.06.27 – ?)
• Benedetto Colonna (1353 – ?)
• Giovanni (? – 1364.07.23), later Bishop of Terralba (Italy) (1364.07.23 – 1389)
• Costantino da Termoli, Augustinians (O.E.S.A.) (1365.03.26 – 1368.11.03), later Bishop of Montecorvino (1368.11.03 – ?)
• Stefano (1368 – 1369)
• Francesco de Capite, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1369.02.21 – ?)
• Nicola (1386.06.09 – ?)
• Leone (1389.08.21 – ?)
• Giovanni Angeli (1410.06.13 – )
• Guglielmo Nicolai (1428.11.03 – ?)
• Petruccio de Migliolo (1450.06.12 – 1463.01.30), later Bishop of Lacedonia (Italy) (1463.01.30 – death 1481)
• Martino Madio da Tramonti (1463.04.08 – 1487.08.24), later Bishop of Bisceglie (Italy) (1487.08.24 – 1507)
• Bernardino Barbiani (1487.08.24 – ?), previously Bishop of Bisceglie (Italy) (1476.08.09 – 1487.08.24)
• Gaspare de Corbara (1498.11.12 – 1517.12.23)
• Nicola Volpe (1517.12.23 – death 1540)

Sources and External links

• GigaCatholic