The Catholic Encyclopedia

Catanzaro

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

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Catanzaro (Caracrum), Diocese OF, suffragan of Reggio. Catanzaro is the capital of the province of Calabria, Italy. The date of the erection of the see is uncertain; it may have been 1122, when Callistus II transferred to Catanzaro the See of Taverna. The diocese has a population of 85,000, with 48 parishes, 97 churches and chapels, 116 secular and 4 regular priests, 1 religious house of men, and 5 of women.

Cappelletti, Le chiese d'Italia (Venice, 1844), XXI, 181; iene Amato, Memorie storiche di Catanzaro (Naples,

U. Benigni.

Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907-1908. Public domain.