Dresden Cathedral
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Catholic cathedral in Dresden, Germany
Key facts
- Location
- Dresden
- Country
- Germany
- Denomination
- Catholic Church
- Sui iuris church
- Latin Church
- Status
- Active
- Founder
- Augustus III of Poland
- Consecrated
- 29 June 1751
- Functional status
- Cathedral
- Architect
- Gaetano Chiaveri
- Province
- Berlin
- Diocese
- Dresden-Meissen
- Bishop
- Heiner Koch
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- church building
- Named after
- Holy Trinity
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Dresden
- Area
- 4800
- Dedicated to
- Holy Trinity
- Official website
- www.bistum-dresden-meissen.de
- Image
- Dresden Hoki.JPG
- Height
- 86
- Width
- 54
- Length
- 92
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- offers view on
- Elbe
- architectural style
- baroque architecture
- architect
- Gaetano Chiaveri
- category for people buried here
- Category:Burials at Dresden Cathedral
- described at URL
- www.bistum-dresden-meissen.de/wir-sind/kathedrale
- located on street
- Schloßplatz
- inception
- 1800-00-00
- Commons category
- Katholische Hofkirche (Dresden)
- street address
- Schloßstraße 24, 01067 Dresden
- Christian liturgical rite
- Roman Rite
- commissioned by
- Maria Josepha of Austria
- adjacent structure or building
- Dresden Castle
- P8168
- secretary of state
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Encyclopedic overview
Dresden Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dresden, previously the Catholic Church of the Royal Court of Saxony, called in German Katholische Hofkirche and since 1980 also known as Kathedrale Sanctissimae Trinitatis, is the Catholic Cathedral of Dresden.
Always the most important Catholic church of the city, it was elevated to the status of cathedral of the Diocese of Dresden–Meissen in 1964. It is located near the Elbe river in the historic center of Dresden, Germany.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dresden Cathedral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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