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
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