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The second wooden cathedral, completed in 1888, served as the seat of San Salvador's archbishops. On August 8, 1951, the Old San Salvador Cathedral was consumed by fire as a distraught crowd of onlookers watched. [1] For the next forty years, the San Salvador Cathedral was a barren concrete structure of exposed bricks and jutting iron buttresses.
Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador: [1] St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Chalatenango; Cathedral-Basilica of Queen of Peace in San Miguel; Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Saviour in San Salvador; Cathedral of St. Vincent in San Vicente; Cathedral of St. Ann in Santa Ana; Cathedral of St. James the Apostle in ...
Cathedral of San Salvador may refer to: Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain; Cathedral of San Salvador (Zaragoza), Spain; San Salvador Cathedral, San Salvador
Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador. The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Savior (Catedral Metropolitana de San Salvador) is the principal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador and the seat of the Archbishop of San Salvador. The church was twice visited by Pope John Paul II, who said that the cathedral was "intimately ...
His cathedra is in Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, otherwise the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Saviour (Catedral Metropolitana de San Salvador). The city also has a former cathedral, now the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ( Spanish : Basílica del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús ), and a minor basilica dedicated to the Virgin of ...
Principal façade of the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo. The Pantheon of Asturian Kings is a chapel of Nuestra Señora del Rey Casto in the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain. It is the burial place of many of the rulers of the medieval kingdoms of Asturias and León.
San Salvador (Spanish pronunciation: [san salβaˈðoɾ];) is the capital and the largest city [5] of El Salvador and its eponymous department. [6] It is the country's largest agglomeration, serving as the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. [7] The municipality of San Salvador has 525,990 inhabitants (2024). [8]
Archbishop Luis Chávez y González from 1939 to 1977 encouraged priests to study farming cooperatives and made efforts toward improving the poorest sectors of El Salvador [3] (although in other respects he was a conservative who favored film censorship, [4] staunchly opposed Communism, [5] and was devoted to Pope Pius XII).