St. Mary's Cathedral is a

cathedral A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually s ...

church located in

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, Canada. It is the

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of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg The Archdiocese of Winnipeg () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church that includes part of the province of Manitoba, Canada. The archdiocese is the only diocese of the Latin Church in Canada that is imm ...

. Located at the corner of Saint Mary Avenue and Hargrave Street in downtown Winnipeg, St. Mary's is one of two Roman Catholic cathedrals in the city of Winnipeg; the other, St. Boniface Cathedral, is located across the Red River in the formerly independent city of

Saint Boniface Boniface, OSB (born Wynfreth; 675 –5 June 754) was an English Benedictines, Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of Francia during the eighth century. He organised significant foundations of ...

. St. Mary's was originally designed in 1880 by C. Balston Kenway"St. Mary's Cathedral"
''Archiseek''. Accessed February 16, 2011. and was updated in 1896 by Samuel Hooper, an English-born stonemason and architect who was later appointed Provincial Architect of Manitoba. The building features elements of

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and Germanic architecture. The Institute for Stained Glass in Canada has documented the

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at St. Mary's Cathedral.

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Roman Catholic churches in Winnipeg St._Mary's_Cathedral Municipal Historical Resources of Winnipeg {{Canada-RC-cathedral-stub 1880 establishments in Manitoba