Cathedral Basilica Of Our Lady
Inside of the Cathedral The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary located in Kabgayi, Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator .... The basilica is seat of the Diocese of Kabgayi. The basilica was dedicated on October 22, 1992. References External linksNativity mosaic at the Kabgayi Cathedral Basilica Basilica churches in Africa Roman Catholic cathedrals in Rwanda 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Rwanda {{Africa-church-stub ...
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Cathedral Basilica Of Our Lady At Kabgayi - Outside Muhanga-Gitarama - Rwanda
A cathedral is a church that contains the ''cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches.New Standard Encyclopedia, 1998 by Standard Educational Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; page B-262c Church buildings embodying the functions of a cathedral first appeared in Italy, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa in the 4th century, but cathedrals did not become universal within the Western Catholic Church until the 12th century, by which time they had developed architectural forms, institutional structures, and legal identities distinct from parish churches, monastic churches, and episcopal residences. The cathedral is more important in the hierarchy than the church because it is from the cathedral that the bishop governs the area under ...
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