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 Diocese of Parramatta in consultation with Romaldo Giurgola, the new cathedral, completed in 2003, has won the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Buildings from the Australian Institute of Architects. There are 47 parishes and one parochial district located in Diocese of Parramatta within five deaneries. Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta The Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, established in 1986. The Diocese of Parramatta is an organisation of the Roman Catholic Church, with responsibility for the western suburbs of Sydney and the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, Australia. St Patrick's Cathedral,