Diocese of Amalfi

Archdiocese of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni Archidioecesis Amalphitana-Cavensis
Façade of the Duomo of Amalfi
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Salerno-Campagna-Acerno
Statistics
Area	150 km2 (58 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2015) 101,396 100,743 (99.4%)
Parishes	79
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	6th Century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di S. Andrea Apostolo
Secular priests	61 (diocesan) 23 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Orazio Soricelli
Website
www.diocesiamalficava.it

The Archdiocese of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni (Latin: Archidioecesis Amalphitana-Cavensis) is a Roman Catholic archbishopric, which has its archiepiscopal see at Amalfi, not far from Naples. It was named Archdiocese of Amalfi until parts of the Diocese of Cava e Sarno were merged with it on September 30, 1986.

It was exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See, but is now a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno.

The current titular is Orazio Soricelli. In 2015, in the diocese of Amalfi there was one priest for every 1,199 Catholics.

Amalfi Cathedral, the cathedral archiepiscopal see, is in Amalfi, devoted to St. Andrew Apostle. It also has

The early beginnings of the Diocese of Amalfi are very obscure; it is not known when it was founded, or when Christianity reached it. That it was early is a reasonable conjecture, considering the facilities for communication with the East which the South of Italy possessed.

The first positive indication that Amalfi was a Christian community is supplied by Pope Gregory the Great, who wrote in January 596 to the Subdeacon Antemius, his legate and administrator in Campania, ordering him to constrain within a monastery Primenus, Bishop of Amalfi, because he did not remain in his diocese, but roamed about. The regular list of bishops began in 829.