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This is a list of cathedrals in France and in the French overseas departments, territories and collectivities, including both actual and former diocesan cathedrals (seats of bishops). Almost all cathedrals in France are Roman Catholic , but any non-Roman Catholic cathedrals are listed here as well.
Until 2009, largest church in East Asia [citation needed] Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo: 2,191 [citation needed] 3,350 4,000 + 1897-1977 Bendigo Australia: Catholic One of Australia's largest churches and the third tallest after St Patrick's Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. 75 metres (246 ft) long and has a ceiling height of 24 metres (79 ft).
Narbonne Cathedral: 41 m (135 ft) 40.1 m (132 ft) [17] Narbonne: France: Only the great choir of this French Gothic cathedral has been built. 18 Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida: 40 m (130 ft) Aparecida: Brazil: Third biggest church in the world. Biggest place of worship in all the Americas. 19 St. Mary's Church: 38.5 m ...
Its builders were trying to maximize the internal dimensions in order to reach for the heavens and bring in more light. As a result, Amiens Cathedral is the largest in France, [7] 200,000 cubic metres (260,000 cu yd), large enough to contain two cathedrals the size of Notre Dame of Paris. [8]
This is a list of cathedrals by country, including both actual cathedrals (seats of bishops in episcopal denominations, such as Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Orthodoxy) and a few prominent churches from non-episcopal denominations commonly referred to as "cathedral", usually having formerly acquired that status.
Sens Cathedral, begun in 1130, was the first complete Gothic cathedral in France. [55] [page needed] Largest. Seville Cathedral has more than 500,000 cubic meters of interior space, [56] and Milan Cathedral has 440,000 cubic meters of interior space, making them the largest cathedrals by interior space in Europe.
From 1569 to 1573 the cathedral of Beauvais was, with its tower of 153 m (502 ft), the highest human construction of the world. Its designers had the ambition to make it the largest gothic cathedral in France ahead of Amiens. Victim of two collapses, one in the 13th century, the other in the 16th century, it remains unfinished today; only the ...
One of the largest Eastern Orthodox Cathedrals Note: this list is incomplete e.g. St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney is 107 metres long (ref. St. Mary's Cathedral website). Portugal's Alcobaça Monastery is 106 metres long.