Roman Catholic Diocese of Tricarico

Diocese of Tricarico
Dioecesis Tricaricensis

Tricarico Cathedral
Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo
Statistics
Area 1,237 km2 (478 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2010)
36,700
35,000 (95.4%)
Parishes 32
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 11th century
Cathedral Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Vincenzo Carmine Orofino
Website
www.webdiocesi.chiesacattolica.it

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.[1]

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.[2]

Notes

  1. Catholic Hierarchy page
  2. Catholic Encyclopedia article

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

Coordinates: 40°37′00″N 16°09′00″E / 40.6167°N 16.1500°E / 40.6167; 16.1500

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