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On May 5, 1971, the cathedral was blessed and on October 5, 1996, was formally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the name of Saint Mary of the Assumption. The first Papal Mass was celebrated by Pope John Paul II in the cathedral in 1987. It ran the private all-female Cathedral High School, in a building adjoining the present-day cathedral.
St. Mary's Church was chosen to be the cathedral of the new diocese. Bishop Michael J. O'Farrell was consecrated on Cardinal John McCloskey at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and enthroned in St. Mary's on November 17, 1881. The gymnasium and convent were built around 1900. [4] A new large Casavant Brothers organ was installed in 1948. [5]
Cathedral interior. St. Mary's Cathedral was designed by prominent Brooklyn, New York church architect Patrick Keely in an “Early English” mode of the Gothic Revival style. He later designed St. Joseph (1880) and St. Patrick (1881–1889) churches in Fall River. The cathedral and the entire steeple are stonework composed of native granite.
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called the Baltimore Basilica, is a Catholic cathedral in Baltimore, Maryland.It was the first Catholic cathedral built in the United States after the nation's founding, and was among the first major religious buildings constructed therein after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
It houses the parish offices, the Cathedral Mental Health Clinic and Abortion Alternatives Inc. [4] St. Dominic Chapel serves as a day chapel for the cathedral parish. The former St. Mary Cathedral School building was demolished in June 2008; a new roof was placed on the cathedral in the autumn of the same year.
Jakarta Cathedral (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption), Indonesia; St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral (Chilpancingo), Mexico; Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Andrew in Frombork, Poland; St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen (Cathedral Church of St Mary of the Assumption), Scotland
The Roman Catholic St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Kentucky, is a minor basilica in the United States.Construction of the cathedral began under the Diocese of Covington's third bishop, Camillus Paul Maes, in 1895 to replace an 1834 frame church that was inadequate for the growing congregation.
Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary and St. Rupert, Wiener Neustadt; Belarus. Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pinsk;