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The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, also known as the Saint Louis Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Completed in 1914, it is the mother church of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and the seat of Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski.
The Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis-Roi-de-France de Saint-Louis), formerly the Cathedral of Saint Louis, and colloquially the Old Cathedral, is a Catholic church in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] It was the first cathedral west of the Mississippi River and until 1844 the only parish church in St. Louis. [2]
It is the second largest church in the Archdiocese of St. Louis after the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis (St. Louis). The church is popularly known as the "Cathedral of South St. Louis". The historic main church was designed in the neo-Gothic style. Its stained glass windows were crafted by the St. Louis glazier Emil Frei, Sr.
St. Liborius was established as a German national parish in 1856. [2] The church building is a large Gothic Revival structure covered in red brick. It was designed by New York City architect William Shickel. [3] At one time the central bell tower featured a stone tracery spire. It was removed in the 1960s. [4] The church was completed in 1889.
The Jesuits established Saint Louis College as Saint Louis University in 1829. Rosati dedicated the Cathedral of St. Louis in 1834, making it the first Catholic cathedral west of the Mississippi River. [21] As Catholic communities started increasing outside of St. Louis, the Vatican erected new dioceses from the Diocese of St. Louis.
Fr. Marek Bozek (since laicized by Pope Benedict XVI), and the lay parish board members of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in St. Louis, Missouri in December 2005 were declared guilty of the ecclesiastical crime of schism by then-Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke. [116] Their excommunication was ratified by the Vatican in May 2008.
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The cathedral originally housed an organ from the Roosevelt Organ Company; in 1926 the Skinner Organ Company installed a new organ. [6] Montana silver magnate Charles D. McLure, a St. Louis native, was revealed to be the anonymous donor of $50,000 toward constructing the cathedral (approximately $6.5 million today). [7] [full citation needed]