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 8, 1920), Vasile Aftenie, Tit Liviu Chinezu and Ioan Bălan, all of them suppressed in communist prisons. Monsignor Vladimir Ghika served here in 1943. Among the literary figures belonging to this parish was George Coșbuc. The church was frequented interwars by Greek Catholic politicians who served in the Romanian capital as Iuliu Maniu, his secretary Corneliu Coposu, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod and others. 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