A cathedral is a title given to an important church, generally serving as the seat of a bishop.
Source please?
Considering how many Catholic immigrants Sweden has, it’s quite strange that there’s only one. Even Norway has three.
This is missing St. Esprit Cathedral in Istanbul.
On a inhabitants per cathedral ratio, Croatia is impressive.
The Catholic Church was very strong in Norway before the reformation because of the St.Olaf’s cult. Nidarosdomen is the largest cathedral in the Nordic countries and was an important pilgrimage destination for all of Northern Europe.
[ Deus Vult intensifies ]
There is one cathedral in Moscow. This is enough for Russia.
Additional context: Greek-catholic cathedrals are included. At least from what I checked for Romania, where half are greek-catholic.
Okay, this map is somewhat useless if you want to know where historically important and big cathedrals are, at least for Germany (and I assume for other countries as well), as it depicts only the places that are seat of a diocese *now*.
In Germany there are so few, because of many of the dioceses got restructured follwowing reformation, but even more so during Napoleonic times and the rest of the nineteenth century. For example you can see in the map Rottenburg, Freiburg and Limburg (Lahn) in Hesse, which do have churches with the titel of a cathedral, but wouldnt qualify as a cathedral from a historians point of view if you consider what their intended function was when they were built (but the Dom of Limburg and Freiburger Münster are very beautiful, do check them out if you are there!). On the other hand, quite a few very old and very important cathedrals are missing on this map, like Worms, which is a 1000 years old. Just felt the need to say this, no ones going to read this probably now 😀
Sweden has one, Finland has one, Denmark also has one… but oil-rich Norway shows off having twice as many. (Do not look at Italy)
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A cathedral is a title given to an important church, generally serving as the seat of a bishop.
Source please?
Considering how many Catholic immigrants Sweden has, it’s quite strange that there’s only one. Even Norway has three.
This is missing St. Esprit Cathedral in Istanbul.
On a inhabitants per cathedral ratio, Croatia is impressive.
The Catholic Church was very strong in Norway before the reformation because of the St.Olaf’s cult. Nidarosdomen is the largest cathedral in the Nordic countries and was an important pilgrimage destination for all of Northern Europe.
[ Deus Vult intensifies ]
There is one cathedral in Moscow. This is enough for Russia.
Additional context: Greek-catholic cathedrals are included. At least from what I checked for Romania, where half are greek-catholic.
Okay, this map is somewhat useless if you want to know where historically important and big cathedrals are, at least for Germany (and I assume for other countries as well), as it depicts only the places that are seat of a diocese *now*.
In Germany there are so few, because of many of the dioceses got restructured follwowing reformation, but even more so during Napoleonic times and the rest of the nineteenth century. For example you can see in the map Rottenburg, Freiburg and Limburg (Lahn) in Hesse, which do have churches with the titel of a cathedral, but wouldnt qualify as a cathedral from a historians point of view if you consider what their intended function was when they were built (but the Dom of Limburg and Freiburger Münster are very beautiful, do check them out if you are there!). On the other hand, quite a few very old and very important cathedrals are missing on this map, like Worms, which is a 1000 years old. Just felt the need to say this, no ones going to read this probably now 😀
Sweden has one, Finland has one, Denmark also has one… but oil-rich Norway shows off having twice as many. (Do not look at Italy)