The Our Lady of the Presentation Cathedral ( pt, Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Apresentação) Also Natal Cathedral It is a religious building of the Catholic Church dedicated to Our Lady of the Presentation, in

Natal NATAL or Natal may refer to: Places * Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, a city in Brazil * Natal, South Africa (disambiguation), a region in South Africa ** Natalia Republic, a former country (1839–1843) ** Colony of Natal, a former British colony ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. It was inaugurated on November 21, 1988, and is located in the district of Cidade Alta in Natal, capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte. It has a style of construction with ascending lines in trapezoidal form quite peculiar. In the basement of the building, there is the Pío X Pastoral Center, where the Archbishop's Office, the Metropolitan Curia, the Cathedral Parish, and the coordination of various Christian pastoral offices are located. On the occasion of his third visit to Brazil, the cathedral received

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 ...

on October 13, 1991.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Our Lady of the Presentation Cathedral Cathedral, Church Roman Catholic cathedrals in Rio Grande do Norte Roman Catholic churches completed in 1988 Roman Catholic shrines in Brazil 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Brazil

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