San Michele dei Leprosetti is a
Greek-Catholic church serving the
Ukrainian community in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
, Italy. It is situated on the piazza of the same name (formerly Piazza Asinara, then Piazza Brusato) in the
Quartiere San Vitale district. Records indicate that the original church burned down in 1210 and was rebuilt in 1361.
It was consecrated to the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
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in November 2009.
It contains a
fresco of
Madonna and child
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by
Vitale da Bologna.
See also
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bologna
The Archdiocese of Bologna is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Italy. The cathedra is in the cathedral church of San Pietro, Bologna. The current archbishop is Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, ...
References
Churches in the province of Bologna
14th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Ukrainian Catholic churches in Italy
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