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Most of Valencia Cathedral was built between the 13th century and the 15th century, and this style was mainly Gothic.However, its construction went on for centuries. [2] As a consequence there is a mixture of artistic styles, ranging from the early Romanesque, Valencian Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical.
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The Diocese of Valencia was created in as early as the 6th century; Pope Innocent VIII elevated it to an archdiocese in 1492. Valencia Cathedral. The cathedral in the early days of the Reconquest was called Església Major, then Seu (Sedes), and at the present time, in virtue of the papal concession of 16 October 1866, it is called the Basílica metropolitana.
The diocesan system of the Catholic church government in Spain consists mainly of a nearly entirely Latin hierarchy of 69 territorial (arch-)dioceses: fourteen ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan archbishop (one of which, Toledo, uses the Mozarabic rite), have a total of 55 suffragan dioceses.
Valencia is third biggest city in Spain and 15th-most populous city in the European Union.City and its metropolitan area has two skyscrapers above 100 m (328 ft) and about 30 skyscrapers between 70 m (230 ft) and 100 m (328 ft), a total of thirty-some skyscrapers above 70 m (230 ft).
St. Stephen's is one of the oldest churches in Valencia. It is built in the Gothic style on the site of a mosque that stood in the city when it was under Muslim rule. It is a rather small church, not far from Valencia Cathedral. According to one legend the site was that of an old Roman temple dedicated to Hercules. St. Stephen's was the ...
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The church portal, which overlooks the Square of San Nicolás, however, is a 19th-century neo-Gothic construction. The interior of the church was completed between 1690 and 1693, and was decorated by Juan Pérez Castiel in Baroque fashion.