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The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael and All Angels (formerly St. Michael's Parish Church ), is an Anglican church located on St. Michael's Row, two blocks east of National Heroes Square; at the centre of Bridgetown, Barbados. The Cathedral is the tallest of the Anglican ( Church of England )'s houses of worship within Barbados.
BB-08 [1] The parish of St. Michael is one of eleven parishes of Barbados. It has a land area of 39 km 2 (15 sq mi) and is found at the southwest portion of the island. Saint Michael has survived by name as one of the original six parishes created in 1629 by Governor Sir William Tufton. The parish is home to Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados.
Diocese. Bridgetown. St. Patrick's Cathedral, [1] [2] located in Bridgetown, Barbados, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgetown. [3] It is one of two cathedrals in that territory, the other being the Anglican Cathedral of St. Michael . Originally built in 1848, St. Patrick's was virtually destroyed by a fire in 1897, suspected to ...
Bridgetown (UN/LOCODE: BB BGI) [2] is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Formerly The Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael. Bridgetown is sometimes locally referred to as "The City", but the most common reference is simply "Town". As of 2014, its metropolitan population stands ...
The Catholic Church in Barbados is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. At first, Catholicism had difficulty establishing itself in Barbados, which early in its colonial history was primarily Protestant, but with the abolition of slavery there in 1838, it began to take root. Currently ...
The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael and All Angels (formerly St. Michael's Parish Church), is located in the centre of Bridgetown, Barbados. Originally consecrated in 1665, and then rebuilt in 1789, it was elevated to Cathedral status in 1825 with the appointment of William Coleridge as bishop of the newly created Diocese of Barbados and the ...
Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in Barbados: [1] St. Patrick's Cathedral, Bridgetown.
Thus Barbados was converted into the current eleven parishes of today corresponding to the earlier church parishes. As was common under the British system, each parish had a single main parishional church (or cathedral in the case of Bridgetown having been elevated to city status), which acted as a sort of capital for each parish.