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Immaculate Conception Cathedral is a historic church at 1218 East Jefferson Street in
Brownsville, Texas Brownsville ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Cameron County, Texas, Cameron County, located on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border, border with Matamoros, Tamaulipas ...
,
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. It is the
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for the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville The Diocese of Brownsville (, ) is a Latin Church diocese in southeastern Texas in the United States. The Diocese of Brownsville is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. The dioc ...
. It was built in 1856 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as Immaculate Conception Church.


History

The
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by Eugène de Mazenod, a French priest later recognized as a Catholic saint. The congregation wa ...
were the first priests to celebrate Mass in the area of Brownsville in 1849. The present
Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...
style building was designed by Peter Yves Keralum. The Oblates operated a seminary in the
rectory A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given religion, serving as both a home and a base for the occupant's ministry. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, p ...
, which also was a haven for priests who fled the revolutions in Mexico. The first Catholic bishop to reside at Immaculate Conception was
Dominic Manucy Dominic Manucy (December 20, 1823December 7, 1885) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Vicar Apostolic of Brownsville (later the Diocese of Corpus Christi) from 1874 until he died in 1885, and also served as the ...
who was the Vicariate Apostolic of Brownsville. The Vicariate became the
Diocese of Corpus Christi The Diocese of Corpus Christi () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in southern Texas in the United States. The Diocese of Corpus Christi is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the met ...
in 1912. On July 10, 1965
Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXII ...
established the Diocese of Brownsville from Corpus Christi and Immaculate Conception became the cathedral for the new diocese.


See also

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List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States The Catholic Church in the United States comprises ecclesiastical territories called dioceses, eparchies, and ordinariates led by prelate Ordinary (church officer), ordinaries known as bishops. Each bishop is assigned to a cathedral from which ...
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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 an ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Cameron County, Texas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cameron County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cameron County, Te ...
* Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Cameron County


References


External links


Official Cathedral SiteRoman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville Official Site
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville Gothic Revival church buildings in Texas Roman Catholic churches completed in 1856 Buildings and structures in Brownsville, Texas Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas Immaculate Conception, Brownsville Churches in Cameron County, Texas National Register of Historic Places in Cameron County, Texas Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States {{CameronCountyTX-NRHP-stub