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Suffragan archdiocese Brindisi–Ostuni, Italy

Archdiocese of Brindisi–Ostuni

Brundusin(us)-Ostunen(sis)

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Brindisi-Ostuni is a Latin Church archdiocese in Apulia, Italy, bearing its current combined name since 1986. It lost metropolitan rank in 1980 and is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lecce, led by Archbishop Giovanni Intini.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of the Visitation and Saint John the Baptist, in Brindisi–Ostuni, Italy.

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Established
400
Catholics
259,400
Priests
113
Territory
1,253 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Giovanni Intini
Born
28 December 1965
Birthplace
Gioia del Colle

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Visitation and Saint John the Baptist stands in Brindisi–Ostuni, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta.

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History

A Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Apulia, the Archdiocese of Brindisi-Ostium (Latin: Archidioecesis Brundusina-Ostunensis) has carried its present name since 1986 and is suffragan to the archdiocese of Lecce. The historical archdiocese of Brindisi had been promoted from a diocese in the tenth century; the territory of the diocese of Ostuni was joined to it in 1821, and in 1980 the archdiocese lost its status as metropolitan see.

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