The St. Ann Cathedral (also Ponta Grossa Cathedral; ) is a Catholic church located in the center of

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in the city of

Ponta Grossa Ponta Grossa () is a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil. The estimated population is 355,336 according to official data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and it is the 4th most populous city in Paraná ( ...

in southern

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. The church is the seat of the

Diocese of Ponta Grossa The Diocese of Ponta Grossa () is a territorial division of the Catholic Church in the state of Paraná, Brazil. It was created in 1926 by Papal bull ''Quum in Dies Numerus'' of Pope Pius XI, with ''bula Quum in numerus''. It is a suffragan dioce ...

. On September 15, 1823, Ponta Grossa became a parish, after which the need arose to build a new, larger chapel to serve the population in place of the old tiled roof chapel dedicated to St. Ann built by Dom Pedro I, the ninth parish of Paraná. In 1906 the Italian Nicolas Ferigotti was hired to remodel the church. Ferigotti presented a project considered daring, because although

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was common at that time, western churches were predominantly built in Greco-Roman style. The building was inaugurated in 1910. On May 10, 1926, the Diocese of Ponta Grossa was created and the church was elevated to the category of

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. It was remodeled again in 1978 and was re-inaugurated in 2009.

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Roman Catholic cathedrals in Paraná (state) Roman Catholic churches completed in 1910 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Brazil {{Brazil-RC-cathedral-stub

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