Roman Catholic Diocese of Vieste

Pope Paschal II confirmed the Church of Vieste to be a suffragan of the archbishops of Siponto (Manfredonia).

Paschal held a synod at Siponti in the spring of 1117, and it is suggested by Kehr that it was on this occasion that his confirmation of ecclesiastical privileges was made.

The right of the king to nominate the candidate for a vacant bishopric was recognized, as in the Concordat of 1741, subject to papal confirmation (preconisation).

[5] On 27 June 1818, Pius VII issued the bull De Ulteriore, in which he reestablished the metropolitan archbishopric of Siponto (Manrfredonia), but with no suffragan dioceses at all.

Based on the revisions, a set of Normae was issued on 15 November 1984, which was accompanied in the next year, on 3 June 1985, by enabling legislation.

According to the agreement, the practice of having one bishop govern two separate dioceses at the same time, aeque personaliter, was abolished.