The Our Lady of Grace Cathedral ( pt, Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Graça) also called Cathedral of Batafá, is a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in the town of

Bafatá Bafatá is a town in central Guinea-Bissau, known as the birthplace of Amílcar Cabral. The town has a population of 22,501 (2008 est). It is the capital of Bafatá Region as well as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafatá, which was est ...

in the region of Batafá one of those that make the African country of

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ), ...

. This is one of the two cathedrals that exist in that nation being the other dedicated to Our Lady of the Candles found in the capital, Bissau. The building more than a cathedral is more like a parish church of Portuguese colonial style. The name of Our Lady of Grace (''Nossa Senhora da Graça'') for cathedrals is common in several of the former Portuguese colonies, examples of this Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace in São Tomé and Príncipe and the pro-cathedral of Our Lady of Grace in Cape Verde. It is a temple that follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as the seat of the diocese of Batafá (''Dioecesis Bafatanus'') covering more than half the country and was created in 2001 by the Bull ''"Cum ad fovendam"'' by

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, Church Roman Catholic cathedrals in Guinea-Bissau Bafatá

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