Valencia Cathedral Valencia Cathedral The Metropolitan Cathedral–Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady of Valencia (, ), alternatively known as Saint Mary's Cathedral or Valencia Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic parish church in Valencia, Spain. The cathedral was consecrated in 1238 by the first bishop of Valencia after the Reconquista, Pere d'Albalat, Archbishop of Tarragona, and was dedicated to Saint Mary by order of James I the Conqueror. It was built over the site of the former Visigothic cathedral, which under the Moors had been turned into a mosque. Valencian Gothic is the predominant architectural style of the cathedral, although it also
St. Francis Pro-Cathedral, Tripoli Paul the Apostle (Malta) with the church of Mary Immaculate in Benghazi. St. Francis Pro-Cathedral, Tripoli The St. Francis Pro-Cathedral or simply Church of St. Francis, is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Tripoli, Libya. The St. Francis Pro-Cathedral follows the Roman Rite or Latin rite serves as a parish church and the pro-cathedral or temporary cathedral of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tripoli ("Vicariatus Apostolicus Tripolitanus") which was created in 1630 by Pope Urban VIII. It is about 740 metres from the old cathedral of Tripoli dating back to 1928, which was converted into a mosque in