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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 ...
Pages in category "Roman Catholic cathedrals in El Salvador" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
Cathedral of San Salvador may refer to: Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain; Cathedral of San Salvador (Zaragoza), Spain; San Salvador Cathedral, San Salvador
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).
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 ...
It belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador and its patron saint is the protomartyr, Saint Stephen. Built 1880–1890, it was heavily damaged during the January 2001 and February 2001 El Salvador earthquakes, and is currently closed pending repairs. At the time of its construction, the church's building materials, imported from ...