Cathedral of St. Teresa of Avila

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The Cathedral of St. Teresa of Ávila ( Serbian and Croatian Katedrala Svete Terezije Avilske , Hungarian A szabadkai Szent Teréz székesegyház ) is a Roman Catholic church in Subotica , Serbia . The St. The cathedral , consecrated to Teresa of Ávila , is the seat of the Bishop of Subotica and has the title of a minor basilica .

history

The church was built between 1773 and 1779 during the Habsburg Empire . With the establishment of the Apostolic Administratur Yugoslavia on February 10, 1923 by Pope Pius XI. and the establishment of the Subotica diocese on January 25, 1968, the church became a cathedral . Since 1973 the cathedral has been a protected cultural monument of Serbia. Pope Paul VI gave the cathedral on April 29, 1974 the rank of a minor basilica .

Building

The baroque church was designed by the Pest architect Franz Kaufmann with a double tower facade. The building is 61 meters long and 26 meters wide. The naves are 18 meters high and the towers are 64 meters high. In 1797 a statue of the Virgin Mary by Friedrich Held was erected on the gable between the bell towers. The valuable altar paintings come from the painter Joseph Karl Schöfft, apart from the picture of the Holy Family, painted by Kaspar Schleibner and the Holy Cross, which comes from Emanuel Walch from Innsbruck. The present organ was built by József Angster in 1897, and it was renovated in 1997. At the end of the 19th century, the church received today's stained glass windows , 18 life-size statues and a sacristy. The exterior was last repaired in 1912. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the cathedral, the furnishings were restored in 1972 and 1973.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Diocese of Subotica (English)
  2. ↑ Monument СК 1216
  3. ^ Katedrala sv. Terezije Avilske on gcatholic.org
  4. ↑ Subotica Cathedral (Serbian)

Coordinates: 46 ° 5 ′ 54.9 ″  N , 19 ° 39 ′ 32.4 ″  E