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Suffragan diocese Alba, Italy

Diocese of Alba

Albae Pompeien(sis)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Alba is a Latin rite diocese in the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Turin. Its cathedral is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and it has roughly 126 parishes.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, in Alba, Italy.

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Established
499
Catholics
132,475
Priests
79
Territory
1,050 km²

Parishes and churches

123 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Marco Brunetti
Born
9 July 1962
Birthplace
Torino

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The cathedral

Cattedrale di San Lorenzo stands in Alba, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

Eighty towns in the civil Province of Cuneo and two in the Province of Asti make up the territory of this Italian Latin Church diocese, known as Alba Pompeia or Alba Pompea (Latin: Dioecesis Albae Pompeiensis). It is a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Turin.

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