St. Francis Xavier Cathedral is the cathedral church of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay ( la, Diocesis Sinus Viridis) was established on March 3, 1868, by Pope Pius IX. It covers the city of Green Bay, as well as Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee, Langlade, Manitowoc, Marine ...
in
Green Bay, Wisconsin,
United States
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. The cathedral was named in honor of
St. Francis Xavier.
The cathedral was planned and erected between 1876 and 1881 under the episcopate of
Francis Xavier Krautbauer. It was designed on the pattern of
Ludwigskirche
Ludwigskirche in Old Saarbrücken, Germany, is a Lutheran baroque-style church. It is the symbol of the city and is considered to be one of the most important Protestant churches in Germany, along with the Dresden Frauenkirche and the St. Mich ...
, a landmark church in the center of
Munich, Germany
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. Krautbauer ordered a monumental crucifixion painted by Johann Schmitt, a local German-descent painter of the
Nazarene movement
The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of c ...
.
Krautbauer was buried under the cathedral's floor.
The cathedral began receiving a series of 18 restorations starting in 2014.
It closed in September 2017 and was reopened at a 9:00 mass on Sunday December 3, 2017.
2017 Repairs include the floors,
pew
A pew () is a long bench seat or enclosed box, used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church, synagogue or sometimes a courtroom.
Overview
The first backless stone benches began to appear in English churches in the thirt ...
s, paintings, and
pipe organ.
Images
See also
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List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States
The following is a list of the Catholic cathedrals in the United States. The Catholic Church in the United States comprises ecclesiastical territories called dioceses led by prelate bishops. Each bishop is assigned to a cathedral from which he ...
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List of cathedrals in the United States
This is a list of cathedrals in the United States, including both actual cathedrals (seats of bishops in Episcopal polity, episcopal Christian groups, such as Catholic Church, Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy and ...
References
External links
Official Cathedral SiteRoman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay Official Site
Religious organizations established in 1851
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1881
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay
Francis Xavier in Green Bay, Cathedral of
Buildings and structures in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Churches in Brown County, Wisconsin
1851 establishments in Wisconsin
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
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