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The cathedral was historically the ecclesiastical capital of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. According to tradition, a church was founded on the site in 445 by Saint Patrick. [2] Evidence suggests that the hilltop was originally a pagan sanctuary. [3]
St. Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland.It was built in various phases between 1840 and 1904 to serve as the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Armagh, the original medieval Cathedral of St. Patrick having been appropriated by the state church called the Church of Ireland at the time of the Irish ...
St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Roman Catholic), built after the Reformation Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh .
Speaking in a video posted online, one protester Deirdre Murphy Linder, said they are "a group of cross-community Christians" who held a "silent a dignified procession at the end of communion".
Maps of dioceses in Ireland as defined by the synod of Kells. From Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd.. Saint Patrick, having received some grants of land from the chieftain Daire, on the hill called Ard-Macha (the Height of Macha), built a stone church on the summit and a monastery and some other religious edifices round about, and fixed on this place for his metropolitan see.
In the building of the sacristy, library, synod-hall, muniment-room, the purchase in fee-simple of the site, and the interior decorations and altars, he spent more than £50,000 on the cathedral. This great cathedral was consecrated on 24 July 1904. Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli, representing Pope Pius X, was present at the consecration.
Diocese highlighted within Ireland. The Diocese of Armagh is the metropolitan diocese of the ecclesiastical province of Armagh, the Church of Ireland province that covers the northern half (approximately) of the island of Ireland.
Armagh (/ ɑːr ˈ m ɑː / ar-MAH; Irish: Ard Mhacha, IPA: [ˌaːɾˠd̪ˠ ˈwaxə], "Macha's height" [3]) is a city and the county town of County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish.