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[It. Cattedrale di San Giovanni Battista] Cathedral church in Turin, Italy. Until the end of the 15th century the episcopal seat of Turin occupied three churches: S Salvatore, S Giovanni Battista and S Maria. The chair of the first Catholic bishop of Turin was probably in S Maria: in September ad 398 the council of the Milanese archdiocese was held in that basilica. The basilica of S Salvatore stood on the right-hand side of S Maria, under the left aisle of the present cathedral; between the two was the baptismal church of S Giovanni, under the present nave. S Giovanni was probably the cathedral first mentioned by Gregory of Tours (586–7). It was perhaps in Lombard times that it was enlarged and the three churches were joined together; in 680 a new Catholic bishop, Rusticus, was installed; he died in 691. At the beginning of the 11th century Landolfo, Bishop of Turin, made a pilgrimage to Saint-Jean d’Angely in France, to worship some relics, supposedly of St John the Baptist, that were discovered between ...