The St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral ( el, Εκκλησία του Αγ. Φραγκίσκου της Ασίζης) also called Catholic Cathedral of Rhodes, is a

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church located in the

city of Rhodes Rhodes ( el, Ρόδος, ''Ródos'' ) is the principal city and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rhodes, of which it is the seat and a mu ...

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, near the gate of St. Athanasius, between the two districts Acandia and St. John. The church is the cathedral of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rhodes The Archdiocese of Rhodes ( la, Archidioecesis Rhodiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Greece. The archdiocese is directly exempt to the Holy See and not part of an ecclesiastical province. ...

. On September 20, 1936 the first stone was laid in the presence of Archbishop

Giovanni Castellani Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani O.F.M. (13 April 1888 – 30 August 1953) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who became an archbishop in 1929 and led jurisdictions in Greece and Ethiopia. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy ...

and the

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. The works for the construction of the church, designed by architect Armando Bernabiti, ended in 1939. In 1940 the church was equipped with an organ and enriched with 14 terracotta bas-reliefs depicting the Stations of the Cross, the sculptor Monteleone. The frescoes on the walls of the choir were painted by Pietro Gaudenzi. On the ceiling above the central altar, a cross rises, around which symbols of the four evangelists are arranged symmetrically. Gaudenzi also are the paintings on the side altars representing, respectively, the Annunciation and St. Maurice.

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Francis of Assisi Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as Saint Francis of Assisi ( it, Francesco d'Assisi; – 3 October 1226), was a mystic Italian Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans, and one of the most venerated figures in Christianit ...

Buildings and structures in Rhodes Roman Catholic churches completed in 1939 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Greece Dodecanese under Italian rule

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