The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist () in

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is a

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cathedral, the seat of Archbishop of Prešov and the metropolitan church of Slovak Greek Catholic Province. Former eparchy bishops and

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s Pavol Gojdič and Vasiľ Hopko are buried here. In the temple there also is a copy of

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. A hospital chapel was built on the site by the

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in the late 1300s; ownership of the site changed hands several times and it became a monastery in the late 1600s. Parish of Prešov website, ''Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Prešov''
/ref> The building became a cathedral in 1818. Religiana website, ''St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Prešov''
/ref> It was transferred to the Greek Catholic Church in 1999.

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