Jaén Cathedral Jaén Cathedral The Assumption of the Virgin Cathedral is a Renaissance-style, Roman Catholic cathedral located in Santa María Square, opposite the Town Hall and the Episcopal Palace, in the center of Jaén, region of Andalusia, Spain. The cathedral stands on a site once occupied by a mosque. Construction began in 1249 atop the ruins of the mosque. The church was damaged and rebuilt on numerous occasions during the following two centuries until the sixteenth century, when several architects, Andrés de Vandelvira being the most important one, built the biggest part of the Cathedral. It was consecrated in 1724. The more
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lille off from the then Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai, it encompasses the arrondissements of Dunkerque and Lille, within the department of Nord in the Region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. It was elevated to a Metropolitan Archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI on March 29, 2008. Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and two suffragan sees : Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lille The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lille (Latin: "Archidioecesis Insulensis"; French: "Archidiocèse de Lille") is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Its cathedral episcopal see is a Marian Minor Basilica: Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de