Stavanger Cathedral is said to have started construction of the cathedral around 1100. It was finished around 1150: the city of Stavanger counts 1125 as its year of foundation. The cathedral was dedicated to Saint Swithun, an early Bishop of Winchester and subsequently patron saint of Winchester Cathedral. The church was initially the seat of the Diocese of Stavanger within the Roman Catholic Church until the Protestant Reformation. Stavanger was ravaged by fire in 1272, and the cathedral suffered heavy damage. It was rebuilt under Bishop Arne (1276–1303) at which time the Romanesque cathedral was enlarged in the Gothic style. In 1682,
Saint Basil the Great Cathedral, Bucharest Saint Basil the Great Cathedral, Bucharest Saint Basil the Great Cathedral, located at 50 Polonă street, is the first Romanian Greek-Catholic church built in Bucharest. The church's patron is Basil of Caesarea and its dedication celebration is on January 1. On August 30, 2014 there was a ceremony of inauguration of the first bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Basil the Great of Bucharest inside the Cathedral. A Greek-Catholic community is attested even before the year 1800, when this group was initially composed of Transylvanian Romanians established in the Wallachian capital. Saint Basil exists as a legal entity since 1829