Bari Cathedral

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Bari Cathedral Cattedrale di San Sabino
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Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
District	Archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto
Rite	Roman
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Cathedral
Year consecrated	1292
Location
Location	Bari, Italy
Geographic coordinates	41°07′43″N 16°52′08″E / 41.128532°N 16.868943°E / 41.128532; 16.868943
Architecture
Type	Church
Style	Romanesque
Completed	1292

Bari Cathedral, or Cathedral of Saint Sabinus, (Italian: Duomo di Bari or Cattedrale di San Sabino) is the cathedral of Bari, in Apulia, southern Italy. The cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto, as it was previously of the archbishops, earlier bishops, of Bari. It is dedicated to Saint Sabinus, a bishop of Canosa, whose relics were brought here in the 9th century. It is senior to, though less famous than, Apulia's Basilica of St Nicholas.^[1]

The present building was constructed between the late 12th and late 13th centuries, mostly in the last thirty years of the 12th century, and was built on the site of the ruins of the Imperial Byzantine cathedral destroyed in 1156 by William I of Sicily known as the Wicked (il Malo); to the right of the transept it is still possible to observe traces of the original pavement which extends under the nave.