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Suffragan diocese Oppido Mamertina–Palmi, Italy

Diocese of Oppido Mamertina–Palmi

Oppiden(sis)-Palmarum

Latin Church

The Diocese of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi is a Latin Church diocese in Calabria, southern Italy, taking its current name in 1979. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Cattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta, Oppido Mamertina, in Oppido Mamertina–Palmi, Italy.

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Established
1201
Catholics
172,000
Priests
94
Territory
930 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Giuseppe Alberti
Born
17 June 1965
Birthplace
Este

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The cathedral

Cattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta, Oppido Mamertina stands in Oppido Mamertina–Palmi, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale di San Nicola, Palmi.

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History

Since 1979 this Latin Church see in southern Italy has carried the name Diocese of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi (Latin: Dioecesis Oppidensis-Palmarum). Historically it was the Diocese of Oppido Mamertina (Oppidensis). The Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria serves as its metropolitan, the diocese holding suffragan rank.

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