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A number of sources also hold that Etchmiadzin is the oldest cathedral in the world. [213] [p] It has sometimes been described as Armenia's first church building, [216] [44] but this claim has found little support among scholars, who usually posit that the country's first church was in Ashtishat, in the Taron region.
Built 295–305 as the Mausoleum of emperor Diocletian, is the second oldest structure used by any Christian Cathedral. It is regarded as the oldest Catholic cathedral in the world that remains in use in its original structure, without near-complete renovation at a later date. Rotunda of Saint George: Thessaloniki: Greece: 306 306 4th century
The Cathedral of Saint Domnius, consecrated at the turn of the 7th century AD, is regarded as the oldest Catholic cathedral in the world that remains in use in its original structure, without near-complete renovation at a later date (though the bell tower dates from the 12th century).
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world.
A proto-cathedral (lit. ' first cathedral ') is the former cathedral of a transferred see. Despite its size and historic importance, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Holy See of the Catholic Church, is not officially a cathedral. [7] The cathedral church of a metropolitan bishop is called a metropolitan cathedral.
Megiddo church is an archaeological site near Tel Megiddo, Israel that preserves the foundations of one of the oldest Christian church buildings ever discovered by archaeologists. [1] The ruins contain one of the oldest inscriptions referring to the divinity of Jesus. [2] [3] [4]
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.
'Thousand-year-old Rosebush'), also known as the Rose of Hildesheim, grows on the apse of the Hildesheim Cathedral, a Catholic cathedral in Hildesheim, Germany, that is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. The cathedral and the adjacent St. Michael's Church have been on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since 1985. [1] [2] [3]