 According to the agreement, the practice of having one bishop govern two separate dioceses at the same time, "aeque personaliter", was abolished.Otherwise Caiazzo and Alise, who shared a bishop, might have become the diocese of Alise e Caiazzo.Instead, the Vatican continued consultations which had begun under Pope John XXIII for the merging of small dioceses, especially those with personnel and financial problems, into one combined diocese.