 On 30 September 1986, Pope John Paul II ordered that the dioceses of Caiazzo and Alise be merged into one diocese with one bishop, with the Latin title "Dioecesis ".The seat of the diocese was to be in Alise, and the cathedral of Alise was to serve as the cathedral of the merged diocese.The cathedral in Caiazzo was to become a co-cathedral, and the cathedral Chapter was to be a "Capitulum Concathedralis".