Orihuela Cathedral Orihuela Cathedral Orihuela Cathedral ("Catedral de Orihuela") is the main Roman Catholic church of Orihuela, Valencian Community, southern Spain. It was built above a pre-existing Muslim mosque as a simple parish church, and was later converted into main church by order of King Alfonso X of Castile in 1281. In 1413, pope Benedict XIII elevated it to the rank of collegiate, until it become a cathedral in 1510. Construction was begun in the late 13th century in Valencian Gothic style, with a Latin cross plan including a nave and two aisles, an ambulatory and chapels within buttresses. The crossing, the
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