Trivento

Trivento rises above the Trigno valley in the hills of Molise. Its cathedral stands on an ancient sacred site, with the crypt of San Casto beneath it. The church was dedicated in 1076, and the town remained the seat of a bishopric through the centuries that followed.

Bishop Giulio Cesare Moriconda, appointed in 1582, restored the cathedral, reorganized the diocesan archives and established a seminary. His work joined the care of the old church to the training of clergy in the wake of the Council of Trent, whose decrees called for seminaries in dioceses. In the eighteenth century Bishop Alfonso Moriconda again restored the cathedral and the episcopal residence, leaving another mark on the buildings that housed the life of the diocese.