Santa Caterina di Valverde, Neoclassical church in Messina, Italy

Santa Caterina di Valverde is a neoclassical church in Messina with a facade featuring five steps, paired pilasters with Corinthian capitals, and a triangular pediment bearing a coat of arms. A 25-metre bell tower with four bells stands on the right side, and the building is topped by a dome on an octagonal drum with a lantern. The interior has a Latin cross plan with a central nave and two side naves incorporating the transept.

The church was rebuilt in 1926–29 by architect Cesare Bazzani for Archbishop Angelo Paino, after the 1908 earthquake destroyed the previous structure. It opened for worship on 12 March 1932. Its origins trace to a Roman-era temple of Venus, later a church annexed in 1330 to the Augustinian monastery of Santa Maria Valverde.

The name Valverde comes from the Flemish Groenendaal, the Augustinian centre in Brabant, and passed from the old monastery to the church; today it survives in the name of the square in front. Since 1964 the church has been formally dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr, correcting an earlier popular title. In 1950 the church temporarily housed the statues carried in Messina's Holy Week rites, later kept in the Oratory of the Peace.

The church stands on Via Centonze near Via Garibaldi, in the city centre. The entrance is reached from street level by five steps, and the 25-metre bell tower with four bells rises on the right side of the facade. The building is a working parish church, so visits fit around services.

The Latin plaque inside records that the temple, once devoted to Venus, was rebuilt from its foundations in 1705 by the Great Monastery of Santa Maria Valverde, then head of three provinces. The same text notes that the 1693 earthquake had made the unstable structure collapse.