Sulmona Cathedral

Sulmona Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Sulmona, Italy, and is the seat of the Bishop of Sulmona-Valva, formerly of the Bishop of Sulmona. The Diocese of Sulmona-Valva is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in imperative Italy, created in 1986. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of L'Aquila. The diocese changed into created in 1818 when the Diocese of Sulmona and the Diocese of Valva had been united. Construction of the existing building, in Romanesque fashion, started in 1075, although the site online is older - a Roman temple is assumed to have stood there - and what's now visible is the end result of many greater recent layers of structure carried out over centuries.

The original willpower was to the Virgin Mary, however many modifications happened within the 12^th century, among them a change of willpower to Saint Pamphilus, the purchaser saint of Sulmona. The cathedral turned into badly damaged in the earthquake of 1706, and rebuilt in a Baroque shape, a number of that may still be seen notwithstanding more recent renovations.