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The Cathedral of Saint Jude the Apostle is a
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located in
St. Petersburg, Florida St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the second-largest city in the Tampa Bay Area, after Tampa. It is the ...
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. It is the seat of the Diocese of St. Petersburg. St. Jude Parish was founded in 1950. The first church building, now Our Lady's Chapel, was completed the following year. As the parish grew larger a combination school and church building was completed in 1954. The present church building, a
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style in the form of a Latin cross, was built in 1963. When
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established the Diocese of Petersburg on March 2, 1968, it became the cathedral of the new diocese. The cathedral underwent a $9 million renovation from 2012 to 2013. File:St Jude Cathedral.jpg, The cathedral before the 2013 renovation File:St. Jude the Apostle Cathedral - St. Petersburg 03.jpg, Main facade File:CathStJudeStPeteFL.jpg, Cathedral interior File:St. Jude the Apostle Cathedral - St. Petersburg 08.jpg, Our Lady's Chapel


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List of cathedrals in Florida This is a list of cathedrals in the state of Florida, United States: See also *List of cathedrals in the United States References {{reflist, 2 Florida Cathedrals in Florida Florida Cathedrals A cathedral is a church that contains th ...


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Cathedral websiteDiocese of St. Petersburg Website
Christian organizations established in 1950 Roman Catholic churches completed in 1963 Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg Jude the Apostle, Saint, St. Petersburg Churches in St. Petersburg, Florida Modernist architecture in Florida Churches in Pinellas County, Florida 1950 establishments in Florida 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States {{Florida-church-stub