Parishes 32 Rite Roman Rite Area 1,237 km² Phone +39 0835 723052 | Denomination Catholic Church Established 11th century Province Province of Matera Country Italy | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2010)
36,700
35,000 (95.4%) Cathedral Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta Address 2 Via Mons.delle Nocche, Tricarico, Mt 75019, Italy Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo Similar Cattedrale (Parrocchia SMaria A, Ostello Fonti, Parrocchia S Giovanni Battista, Parrochia "Madonna di Pompei", Parrocchia Madonna Della Neve | ||
The Italian Catholic Diocese of Tricarico (Latin: Dioecesis Tricaricensis) is in Basilicata. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo.
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History
Tricarico Cathedral was erected in 968 by Polyeuctos, Patriarch of Constantinople. The names of the bishops of Tricarico, then of the Greek Rite, are not known.
Of the Latin bishops after the Norman conquest the first was Arnoldo (1068); others were:
From 1805 to 1819 the see remained vacant. The diocese was in the past a suffragan of the archdiocese of Acerenza and Matera.
Diocese of Tricarico
Erected: 11th Century
Latin Name: Dioecesis Tricaricensis
to 1500
References
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