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