The Cathedral Church of St Andrew is a
Catholic
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cathedral
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in the
West End of the city of
Dundee,
Scotland
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. The cathedral is the
seat of the
Bishop of Dunkeld
The Bishop of Dunkeld is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Dunkeld, one of the largest and more important of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Cormac. However, the first ...
and
mother church
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of the
Diocese of Dunkeld
The Diocese of Dunkeld was one of the 13 historical dioceses of Scotland preceding the abolition of Episcopacy in 1689.
History
It is thought that the diocese was constituted as far back as the middle of the ninth century. The first occupant ...
within the
Province of St Andrews and Edinburgh. The bishop, since 9 January 2014, is
Stephen Robson
Stephen Robson (born 1 April 1951) is a prelate of the Catholic Church. , he is the Bishop Emeritus of Dunkeld.
From 2012 to 2014 he was auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
Early life
Stephen Robson was born in C ...
.
History
The Cathedral sits at what was the western edge of the town's almshouse that survived until the sixteenth century.
[Dowling, J. and Nichols, K., "St Andrews Cathedral, Nethergate, Dundee", POWiS]
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The building, the facade of which is in the Victorian Gothic
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design, was designed by Dundee native architect George Mathewson. Opened on 7 August 1836, it is the oldest Catholic Church in Dundee, and has a seating capacity of about 1,000.[ The halls in the basement served for years as the only Catholic school in the city."St Andrew's Cathedral, Dundee", Leisure and Culture Dundee]
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The sanctuary (presbyterium
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) area, which contains the high altar
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and stalls for the canons of the cathedral, was added later by knocking out the back wall and building on top of the clergy house. As a result, the altar area is significantly higher than the body of the cathedral. The cathedral is also unusual in that the floor slopes from the entrance to the entrance to the sanctuary.[
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Interior
There are two side altars in the cathedral; one is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
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and the other to Mary
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People
* Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name)
Religious contexts
* New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below
* Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...
, the Mother of Jesus under her title of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
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. As in all Catholic churches, the cathedral has a set of the Stations of the Cross on the walls. In the vestibule there is a statue of the cathedral's patron saint
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, Saint Andrew. At the back of the cathedral is the baptistry next to which is a representation of the Pietà
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.[
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Ministry
The usual Sunday Mass
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times at the cathedral are 11 am and 6 pm.[St Andrew's Cathedral, Dundee]
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References
External links
Website of the Diocese of Dunkeld
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Roman Catholic cathedrals in Scotland
Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew
Listed cathedrals in Scotland
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1836
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom