The church that has the function of cathedral is not of necessity a large building.

* Le Mans has a well-preserved old town ( Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans ), where the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1989 ) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien, is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.

She has also been blasted from a cathedral pulpit.

The Duomo ( cathedral ), dedicated to San Salvatore, was originally built in the 14th Century, but it now has a neo-classical appearance thanks to extensive renovation work that was done in the early 19th century under the direction of Sienese architect Agostino Fantasici.

The spot where the Ipatiev House once stood has recently been commemorated by a magnificent cathedral " on the blood.

The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the city's cathedral, as destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route originated in the 9th century.

Architecturally, Uppsala University has traditionally had a strong presence in the area around the cathedral on the western side of the River Fyris.

It has recently been proposed that he may have been a lay agent or representative of the cathedral chapter of Cambrai Cathedral to obtain a relic of St. Elizabeth of Hungary who had made a donation to the cathedral chapter and to whom the chapter dedicated one of the radiating chapels in their new cathedral chevet.

As a whole, the cathedral presents a unity which even the Neoclassical belltower has failed to mar.

The cathedral, designed in 1888 and begun in 1892, has, in its history, undergone radical stylistic changes and the interruption of the two World Wars.

" Nothing I've done ," Doran says, " has held my interest like the cathedral.

On the grounds of the cathedral, toward the south, are several buildings ( including a Synod Hall and the Cathedral School ), and a Biblical garden, as well as a large bronze work of public art by the cathedral's sculptor-in-residence, Greg Wyatt, known as the Peace Fountain, which has been both strongly praised and strongly criticized.

The cathedral has an annual New Year's Eve Concert for Peace.

Paul Winter has given many concerts at the cathedral, and the Paul Winter Consort are the artists in residence.

Apart from its organisational function as the seat of the bishop, and the meeting place for the chapter of the diocese, the cathedral has a liturgical function in offering daily church services.

The cathedral generally has a lectern from which the scripture is read.

The cathedral often has its own school, primarily for the education of choristers, but often including other children as well.

With highrise building, civil action has been taken in some cases, such as the Cologne Cathedral to prevent the vista of the cathedral from being spoiled.

From the end of World War I to the an international effort to restore the cathedral from the ruins has continued.

The St. Ursus cathedral has eleven altars and eleven bells, and the stairs in front of the cathedral have levels between every eleven steps.

The formal word for a church that is currently a cathedral is cattedrale ; a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral ( the latter always in a town that no longer has a bishop nor therefore a cathedral, as for example Trevi ).

Nineteenth-century travellers could point to the Hill of San Giovanni on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Ajaccio, which still had a cathedral said to have been the 6th century seat of the Bishop of Ajaccio.

Bede's remains may have been transferred to Durham Cathedral in the 11th century ; his tomb there was looted in 1541, but the contents were probably re-interred in the Galilee chapel at the cathedral.

Some remaining fragments of the Roman walls have been incorporated into the cathedral.

The cathedral, also known as the Basilica La Seu, is said to have been founded in 343.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

His remains, originally buried at Bethlehem, are said to have been later transferred to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, though other places in the West claim some relics — the cathedral at Nepi boasting possession of his head, which, according to another tradition, is in the Escorial.

Lothar Malskat was hired to restore the medieval frescoes of the cathedral of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, which were discovered inside the walls after the cathedral had been badly damaged during World War II.

Parts of Lombard constructions have been preserved in Pavia ( San Pietro in Ciel d ' Oro, crypts of Sant ' Eusebio and San Giovanni Domnarum ) and Monza ( cathedral ).

The body then lies in state for several days before being interred in the crypt of a leading church or cathedral ; all who have died in the 20th and 21st centuries have been interred in St. Peter's Basilica.

On 3 July 1201, the papal legate, Cardinal-Bishop Guido of Palestrina announced to the people, in the cathedral of Cologne, that Otto IV had been approved by the pope as Roman king and threatened with excommunication all those who refused to acknowledge him.

To honour St. James, the cathedral was built on the spot where his remains were said to have been found.

Adams argues that Jack will only have skipped the less interesting bits of the cathedral if “ he had been less interested in seeing everything in the cathedral than in maximizing utility.

And it is plausible to suppose that if his motivation had been different in that respect, he would have enjoyed the cathedral much less .”

This plunder included the gilt bronze horses from the Hippodrome of Constantinople, which were originally placed above the entrance to St Mark's cathedral in Venice, although the originals have been replaced with replicas and the originals are now stored within the basilica.

Though God commanded instruments to be used in Temple worship, and the daily life of Israel, the first recorded example of a musical instrument in Roman Catholic worship was an organ introduced by Pope Vitalian into a cathedral in Rome around 670.

In addition to being a place of worship, the cathedral or parish church was used by the community in other ways.

Although some books ( in particular guidebooks ) suggest that the mazes on cathedral floors served as substitutes for pilgrimage paths, the earliest attested use of the phrase " chemin de Jerusalem " ( path to Jerusalem ) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and Saint-Omer.

Some books ( guidebooks in particular ) suggest that mazes on cathedral floors originated in the medieval period as alternatives to pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the earliest attested use of the phrase " chemin de Jerusalem " ( path to Jerusalem ) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and Saint-Omer.

The stones from the ruin were used for the building of the cathedral.

The bells of a cathedral are traditionally used to signal the outbreak and the ending of war.

The principal words typically used to distinguish houses of worship in Western Christian architecture are basilica, cathedral and church.

During the English Civil War, Parliamentarian troops used the cathedral to stable their horses and damaged much of the ornate sculpture by using it for firing practice.

Elizabeth Goudge used Wells as a basis for the fictional cathedral city of Torminster, in her book City of Bells.

Wells has been used as the setting for several films including: The Canterbury Tales ( 1973 ), A Fistful of Fingers ( 1994 ), The Gathering ( 2002 ), The Libertine ( 2005 ), The Golden Age ( 2007 ), and Hot Fuzz ( 2007 ) The cathedral interior stood in for Southwark Cathedral during filming for the Doctor Who episode The Lazarus Experiment.

Portals Vells bay in the municipality of Calvià, the caves supplied the stone used to build Palma cathedral

The city was then occupied by a parliamentary garrison, and subsequently by their Scots allies, who destroyed the cathedral ’ s nave and used the stone to rebuild the castle.

The cathedral came to be used as a warehouse for the storage of food.

In his book, written in latin, Copernicus used the Latin name of the town and region-Frueburgo Prussiae Shortly after its 1543 publication, Copernicus died there and was buried in the town's cathedral, where his grave was thought to have been found by archaeologists in 2005.

Carved Maya stones from ancient T ' ho were widely used to build the Spanish colonial buildings that are plentiful in downtown Mérida, and are visible, for instance, in the walls of the main cathedral.

* The cathedral was used for the filming of The Da Vinci Code ( based on the book of the same name ).

The abbey church, although legally a cathedral church, differs in certain particulars from most of the other cathedrals in England: it is also used as a parish church, of which the dean is rector.

In each façade the central portal is particularly large and was only used for special ceremonies, while the smaller side portals allowed everyday access for the different communities that used the cathedral

The monuments of Cyzicus were used by the Byzantine emperor Justinian as a quarry for the building of his Saint Sophia cathedral, and were still exploited by the Ottomans.

The old episcopal palace, contiguous to the cathedral, is now used as a court-house.

Many inaccurately attribute this to Salisbury Cathedral, however they introduced boys and girls on an equal basis, whereas St David's used girls as their ‘ main ’ cathedral choristers.

Leofric moved the seat of his see because Crediton was too poor and rural, and Exeter was a city with protective walls and an abandoned church that could be used as the new cathedral.

The list consists of 31 books used to conduct cathedral services, 24 other ecclesiastical works, and 11 works that were secular.

It is often called cathedral glass, but this has nothing to do with medieval cathedrals, where the glass used was hand-blown.