During the two-year refurbishment programme, events that usually take place there will be held at St Andrew’s Church on Westland Row. It is intended the new cathedral will reopen well in advance of ...

THE Pope has designated the old pro Cathedral in Dublin as the official cathedral of the Capital. The famous building on Marlborough Street in the city centre was built over 200 years ago and was ...

In 1825, the ‘Pro-Cathedral’ was opened on the site of St Mary’s Church on Liffey Street and was soon favoured by generations of Dubliners with the affectionate and long-favoured nickname, ‘The Pro’.

Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin announces the elevation of St. Mary's Pro Cathedral to formal cathedral status at a Mass to mark the bicentenary of the church's dedication in 1825 and the feast of ...

Archbishop Farrell added that the timing could not have been better as it coincided with the cathedral’s bicentenary celebrations. Archbishop Dermot Farrell of the Dublin Archdiocese holds up the ...

Pope Leo XVI has upgraded the St Mary's Pro Cathedral to the full Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin. The building on Marlborough Street has only officially had temporary status as a ...

This marks the first time since the Reformation that Dublin has had a Catholic cathedral. Pope Leo designated St Mary’s Pro Cathedral in Dublin as the official Catholic cathedral of the archdiocese on ...

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The Catholics of Dublin have a dedicated cathedral for the first time in 500 years following Pope Leo XIV's decision on Nov. 14 to designate St. Mary's Pro Cathedral as the Irish capital's official ...