The Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe () is the main
Roman Catholic
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church building
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of
Canelones, Uruguay
Canelones () is the capital of the Canelones Department, department of Canelones in Uruguay. Its name is derived from a species of cinnamon, which is called "canelón", growing along the banks of the homonymous river. Since 2010, the city is also ...
. It is the see of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Canelones since 1961.
History
The first temple was built in 1775; around the small church, a township evolved. In 1828, the priest
Juan Francisco Larrobla
Juan Francisco de Larrobla Pereyra (Montevideo, 9 January 1775 - Canelones, 5 July 1842) was a Uruguayan Roman Catholic cleric, theologian and patriot.
Biography
Larrobla studied at the Real Colegio de San Carlos in Buenos Aires and afterwards ...
blessed here the first
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.
[History of the Cathedral of Canelones](_blank)
The current building was completed in 1843, and it was expanded later. Since 1900 it has a mechanical organ. It is dedicated to the
Virgin of Guadalupe
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, which was also the original denomination of the city,
Villa Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.
Villa de Guadalupe
In 1945, Cardinal Antonio Barbieri
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elevated the church to National Sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
See also
* List of Roman Catholic cathedrals in Uruguay
This is the list of cathedrals in Uruguay sorted by Christian denomination, denomination.
Catholic
Cathedrals of the Catholic Church in Uruguay:
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Canelones, Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Canelones, ...
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Canelones
Bibliography
* Juan José Villegas Mañé. ''Historia de la parroquia Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Canelones, 1775-1977'', en ''La Iglesia en el Uruguay. Estudios históricos'', Cuadernos del ITU, Nº 4, Instituto Teológico del Uruguay, Montevideo, 1978.
References
External links
Diocese of Canelones
Canelones, Uruguay
Roman Catholic church buildings in Canelones Department
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Uruguay
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1843
1843 establishments in Uruguay
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Uruguay
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