Santa Caterina Church, Catholic church in Borgo Santa Caterina, Bergamo, Italy

Santa Caterina is a church on via Borgo Santa Caterina in Bergamo's lower town, rebuilt from 1733 on a design by Giovan Battista Caniana. Its facade rises in three orders divided by two cornices, with six pilasters and Corinthian capitals, crowned by statues of the saint and two angels carved by Antonio Maria Pirovano in 1735. Inside is a single nave holding 139 works, including three large canvases in the apse.

The church is documented from 1280, when notarial acts name prelates of a church dedicated to Saint Catherine in the vico Plorzano. It depended on Sant'Alessandro della Croce until gaining autonomy on 14 March 1370. In 1528 Don Giovanni Plebano d'Arravia had a new church built, with a bell tower added in 1535. The present building was rebuilt from 1733 to a design by Giovan Battista Caniana and consecrated by Bishop Antonio Redetti on 2 March 1738.

The church is the only one in the Diocese of Bergamo dedicated to Saint Catherine; the reason is unknown, but the wheel of her martyrdom linked her to the millers and potters of the borgo, which was full of mills and kilns. The parish archive keeps the statute of the Consorzio di Santa Caterina from 20 December 1280.

The church stands directly on the street of Borgo Santa Caterina, with a small cobbled churchyard on the west side bounded by Botticino stone posts. The facade rises in three orders divided by two cornices, with six pilasters and Corinthian capitals. The parish also includes the sanctuary of the Madonna Addolorata, built after the 1602 apparition.

The church holds 139 works by artists of note, including three large canvases in the apse: at the centre Francesco Fontebasso's 18th-century Martyrdom of Saint Catherine, and on the left Gaetano Peverada's Saint Catherine Disputing with the Pagan Philosophers.