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View of the Cathedral in 1858. The Jesuits arrived in the city in the 1549 and planned a Jesuit college under Father Manuel da Nóbrega (1517-1570). The Diocese of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, the first in the Portuguese colony of Brazil, was created in 1551, only two years after the founding of Salvador by the Portuguese nobleman Tomé de Sousa.
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 ...
The Diocese of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, the first in the Portuguese colony of Brazil, was created in 1551, only two years after the founding of Salvador by nobleman, Tomé de Sousa. The first bishop, Pero Fernandes Sardinha, arrived in 1552 and for several years a small chapel constructed by the Jesuits served as the cathedral.
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 ...
The Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Salvatoris in Brasilia) is part of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil. The Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia also carries the title Primate of Brazil. The archdiocese is located in the city of Salvador, Bahia.
The old romanesque Tower of San Salvador The cathedral Portico of the cathedral Rey Casto chapel, Asturian-kings royal pantheon. The origins of Oviedo Cathedral date back to the late 8th century, when Asturian king Alfonso II of Asturias promoted the construction of a basilica at the core of the Kingdom of Asturias' newly established royal court (regia sedes): what today conforms the oldest ...
Cathedral of San Salvador may refer to: Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain; Cathedral of San Salvador (Zaragoza), Spain; San Salvador Cathedral, San Salvador