Caltanissetta Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale di Caltanissetta; Chiesa di Santa Maria la Nova) is the
cathedral
A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denomination ...
of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Caltanissetta
The Italian Catholic Diocese of Caltanissetta ( la, Dioecesis Calatanisiadensis) is in Sicily, It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Agrigento.
History
Caltanissetta once belonged to the diocese of Girgenti, but was created an episcopal see ...
. It is located in
Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta (; scn, Nissa or ) is a ''comune'' in the central interior of Sicily, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Caltanissetta. Its inhabitants are called ''Nisseni''.
In 2017, the city had a population of 62,797. It is the 14th l ...
,
Sicily
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, Italy.
Its construction began in 1570 and ended in 1622.
[Calogero Scarlata, Salvatore Farina. ''S. Maria la Nova: la cattedrale di Caltanissetta''. Edizioni Lussografica, 1997] Between 1718 and 1720 the Flemish painter
Guglielmo Borremans
Guglielmo Borremans or Guglielmo Fiamingo (1670–1744) was a Flemish painter whose documented career took principally place in Italy, in particular Naples, Cosenza and Sicily. Here he was one of the pre-eminent late-Baroque fresco painters of th ...
, together with his son Luigi, frescoed the vault and the nave, and painted the greater altarpiece, depicting the
Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.
It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, meaning that it is held to be a divinely revealed truth w ...
.
See also
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Catholic Church in Italy
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References
External links
Catholic Hierarchy: Diocese of Caltanissetta
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1622
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Italy
Cathedrals in Sicily
1622 establishments in Italy
17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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