Cappelletti, p. 275. The new bishop, Gabriele Ventriglia, was transferred from the diocese of Cotrone. Notizie per l'anno 1853 (in Italian). Roma: Salviucci. 1853. p. 98. The diocese of Caiazzo is already mentioned as "newly established" in the 1851 volume of Notizie. There were no issues in 1849 and 1850, due to the flight of Pius IX from Rome.
Giovanni Battista was the third son of Antonello Petrucci (or Petruzzi), the Secretary of King Ferdinand I of Naples. His elder brother Francesco was Count of Carinola. The second son was Giovanni, Count of Policastro. His brothers were executed in 1486 for having led the conspiracy of the barons against the King, and their father was executed in 1487. Giovanni Battista had been made Archbishop of Tarento (1485–1489) by Pope Innocent VIII, and had then been titular archbishop of Maito (Greece) (1489–1493). He died in 1514. Imma Ascione, "Le visite del vescovo G.B. de Petruciis alle chiese delle diocese di Caserta (1507–1509)," in: Rivista di Terra di Lavoro 1. 2 (April 2006), p. 1 with note 1. Camillo Porzio (1859). S. d'Aloe (ed.). La congiura de' baroni del regno di Napoli contra il re Ferdinando i. Ridotta alla sua vera lezione [&c.] per cura del comm. S. d'Aloe (in Italian). Naples: G. Nobile. Eubel II, pp. 119, 183, 246; III, p. 155 note 2.
A native of Florence, Boncianni held the degree of Doctor in utroque iure, and was a Referendary of the Tribunal of the Two Signatures under Pope Leo X. He was appointed Bishop of Caserta by Pope Leo X of Florence on 29 October 1514. He took part in the Fifth Lateran Council under Leo X. In 1524 he was named Commissary of the Theatine Order. He served as Datary to Pope Clement VII in 1527 and 1528. In a decree of 20 March 1532, written in Rome, he took steps to equalize the prebends enjoyed by the Canons of the cathedral Chapter. He died in 1532. Ughelli, pp. 510-511. Nicola Storti (1969). La storia e il diritto della datarìa apostolica dalle origini ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Naples: Athena Mediterranea. p. 186.
Bellomo was a native of Rome, and had been a Cleric of the Apostolic Chamber (Treasury). In 1557 he was governor of Ancona. Bishop Bellomo attended the Council of Trent in 1562 and 1563. In 1585, he was granted a Coadjutor, his nephew Marco Bellomo, titular Bishop of Bethlehem, who predeceased his uncle Agapito. Francesco Sforza Pallavicino (1803). Istoria del Concilio di Trento (in Italian). Vol. Tomo XIV. Venezia: G. Zanardi. p. 124. Ughelli, p. 513. Eubel III, p. 156 with note 13. D. Natale and T. Pisanti, "Lettere di Agapito Bellomo, Vescovo di Caserta al Concilio di Trento," Archivio storico di Terra di Lavoro 3 (1960–1964), pp. 551-561 (in Italian).
A native of Melfi, Mandina had trained as a lawyer before he joined the Theatine Order in 1584. He was named Bishop of Caserta on 31 January 1594 by Pope Clement VIII. In 1596 he was sent by the Pope on a mission to the Emperor Rudolf. He presided at a diocesan synod in 1597. In 1598, he was named Consultor of the Holy Inquisition in Naples, but was in Rome much of the time between 1598 and 1601; he was present in Rome in 1600 at the trial of Giordano Bruno. On 5 June 1604, Mandina was named Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of Naples, on the death of Cardinal Alfonso Gesualdo, the Archbishop. He died in Naples in 1604. Cappelletti, p. 252. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 138 with note 2. Thomas F. Mayer (2014). The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, C. 1590-1640. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 20. ISBN978-0-8122-4573-8.
Diaz was named Bishop of Caserta on 18 May 1616. On 28 September 1616, he is recorded as being governor of Perugia. He resigned the diocese of Caserta in 1626 on being named papal Nuncio to Naples. Annibale Mariotti (1806). Saggio di memorie istoriche civili ed ecclesiastiche della città di Perugia e suo contado (in Italian). Vol. Tomo I, parte II. Perugia: C. Baduel. p. 389. Gauchat, p. 138 with note 4.
Rogadei was born in Veglio (diocese of Bitonto) in 1742. He was named Bishop of Caserta on 26 June 1805 by Pope Pius VII. He died on 15 March 1816. Notizie per l'anno 1806 (in Italian). Roma: Cracas. 1806. p. 126. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 137.
Christus Dominus 40. Therefore, in order to accomplish these aims this sacred synod decrees as follows: 1) The boundaries of ecclesiastical provinces are to be submitted to an early review and the rights and privileges of metropolitans are to be defined by new and suitable norms. 2) As a general rule all dioceses and other territorial divisions that are by law equivalent to dioceses should be attached to an ecclesiastical province. Therefore dioceses which are now directly subject to the Apostolic See and which are not united to any other are either to be brought together to form a new ecclesiastical province, if that be possible, or else attached to that province which is nearer or more convenient. They are to be made subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the bishop, in keeping with the norms of the common law. 3) Wherever advantageous, ecclesiastical provinces should be grouped into ecclesiastical regions for the structure of which juridical provision is to be made.
