| According to testimony given in the Holy visit of Monsignor Antonio Puteo, at the end of the sixteenth century the church was served by eight Santeramo twelve priests and clerics (including Dean), including some with the benefit. The Archbishop Muzio Gaeta, in its report "ad limina" of 1702, describes the clergy of the Church of Santeramo of thirty clergymen with the dean.
In 1913, the date of death of the last priest, it happened in the forfeiture of pensions of former ricettizia by the municipality. By papal decree of September 30, 1986, the church of Santeramo in Colle is transferred from the diocese of Bari Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti |