Rossano Cathedral

Rossano Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Rossano, a frazione of Corigliano-Rossano, Calabria, southern Italy, dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary as Maria Santissima Acheropita. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Rossano-Cariati, and previously of the Bishops and Archbishops of Rossano. The cathedral became constructed within the 11th century, with big reconstruction inside the 18th and 19th centuries. It has a principal nave and two aspect-aisles, terminating in three apses. The bell tower and the baptismal font date from the 14th century, while the alternative artworks and fixtures are of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The cathedral homes an historic picture of the Madonna Acheropita, an photograph of the Madonna and Child supposedly determined within the cathedral plaster and now not painted by human hand, which is dated to somewhere among approximately 580 and the first half of the 8^th century. In the vestry in 1879 become observed the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, a Greek evangeliary of the 5^th or 6^th century of Middle Eastern origin, which became in all likelihood brought to Rossano by way of a monk taking shelter from the Arab invasions of the Middle East at some stage in the 9^th and 10^th centuries.