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The Basilica of Notre Dame of Geneva is a Roman Catholic church and Minor Basilica located in Geneva, Switzerland. [1] [2] It is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Pope Pius IX gifted the white Carrara marble statue of the Immaculate Conception as Our Lady of Geneva in 1859. Pope Pius XI granted the image a decree of Pontifical coronation on ...
Saint Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland is the principal church of the Reformed Protestant Church of Geneva. Previously it was a Roman Catholic cathedral, having been converted in 1535. It is known as the adopted home church of John Calvin, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Inside the church is a wooden chair used by Calvin.
The Catholic population in the Cantons of Fribourg and Geneva consisted principally of farmers, in both of the other cantons it is also recruited from the labouring classes. The Catholics were distributed among 193 parishes, of which 162 allotted to Lausanne, 31 to Geneva. The number of secular priests was 390, those belonging to orders 70.
Etienne Marilley (1804–1889) became the parish priest of Geneva in 1831 and was consecrated bishop of Lausanne and Geneva in 1846. [41] The 1870s was the time of Kulturkampf. For instance, discord arose concerning public financial support for the Protestant and Old Catholic Churches, while the Catholic Church received none.
Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland: [1] Cathedral of Sts. Ursus and Victor in Solothurn; Basilica of Mary of the Assumption in Chur; Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Fribourg; Cathedral of St. Lawrence in Lugano; Benedictine Abbey Cathedral of St. Maurice in Einsiedeln; Abbey of St. Maurice in Saint-Maurice-d'Agaune; Cathedral ...
The Catholic Church in Switzerland (German: Römisch-katholische Landeskirche, French: Église catholique en Suisse, Italian: Chiesa cattolica in Svizzera, Romansh: Baselgia catolica da la Svizra) is organised into six dioceses and two territorial abbeys, comprising approximately 2.9 million Catholics, about 33.8% [1] of the Swiss population in ...
The Catholic Church in Switzerland, unlike most countries, does not consist of a distinct ecclesiastical province. Instead, all the dioceses are immediately subject to the Holy See. Currently, there are six Latin dioceses and two territorial Abbeys wholly in Switzerland.
Holy Trinity Church, Geneva; R. Russian Church, Geneva This page was last edited on 10 May 2019, at 17:43 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...