The Co-Cathedral of the Assumption ( es, Concatedral de la Ascensión), also known as Chilapa Cathedral, is the main Catholic church in the city of
Chilapa in the state of Guerrero,
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 ...
, and the second in the
Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa. It is dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption.
By orders of Monsignor Ramón Ibarra y González, the construction of the large
Chilapa temple was ordered. It was destroyed by a fire in 1930. The then-bishop of Chilapa ordered to oversee its reconstruction, who resumed the construction and finished the church.
The cathedral of Chilapa became the fourth most important cathedral in the country.
See also
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Roman Catholicism in Mexico
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Assumption of Mary
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it in 1950 in his apostolic constitution ''Munificentissimus Deus'' as follows:
We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by Go ...
References
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Roman Catholic cathedrals in Mexico