The Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral ( es, Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Ciudad Juárez) Also Ciudad Juárez Cathedral Is the name of a Catholic cathedral church dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe, that is located in

Ciudad Juárez Ciudad Juárez ( ; ''Juarez City''. ) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It is commonly referred to as Juárez and was known as El Paso del Norte (''The Pass of the North'') until 1888. Juárez is the seat of the Ju� ...

in the border state of Chihuahua, in

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

, in the area called Historical Center. It was built in the middle of the second half of the twentieth century and is attached to the old and still preserved Franciscan mission, founded in the 17th century, in the then ''Paso del Norte''. The first church of the area, still preserved, was erected by the order of the Franciscans who began to Christianize the natives. On December 8, 1659, Fray García de San Francisco founded the Guadalupe de los Mansos Mission in the Paso del Norte river. The place took on importance since the capital of the province of New Mexico from 1681 to 1693 after the Pueblo Indian uprising of 1680. With the growth of the city in the twentieth century at the initiative of Father Baudelio Pelayo the new cathedral was built attached to the old church. This was consecrated in the year 1941. Completed the construction in the year of 1957, was designated the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Our Lady of Guadalupe, Church Roman Catholic cathedrals in Mexico Roman Catholic churches completed in 1957 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Mexico

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