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St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
St Patrick's Cathedral Exterior, Dublin, Ireland - Diliff.jpg
53°20′22″N 6°16′17″W / 53.33944°N 6.27139°W / 53.33944; -6.27139Coordinates: 53°20′22″N 6°16′17″W / 53.33944°N 6.27139°W / 53.33944; -6.27139
Country Republic of Ireland
Denomination Church of Ireland
Previous denomination Roman Catholic
Churchmanship High Church
Website Official website
History
Dedication Saint Patrick
Architecture
Style Gothic
Completed 1191
Administration
Diocese Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough
Province Province of Dublin
Clergy
Dean W. W. Morton
Precentor P. R. Campion
Chancellor N. J. Sloane
Laity
Organist/Director of music Stuart Nicholson
Organist(s) David Leigh
Organ scholar Martina Smyth

Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Irish: Ard-Eaglais Naomh Pádraig) in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1191, is the National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland. With its 43-metre (141 ft) spire, St. Patrick's is the tallest church in Ireland and the largest.Christ Church Cathedral, also a Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin, is designated as the local Cathedral of the diocese of Dublin and Glendalough.

Unusually, St Patrick's is not the seat of a bishop, as the Archbishop of Dublin has his seat in Christ Church Cathedral. Since 1870, the Church of Ireland has designated St Patrick's as the national cathedral for the whole of Ireland, drawing chapter members from each of the twelve dioceses of the Church of Ireland. The dean is the ordinary for the cathedral; this office has existed since 1219. The most famous office holder was Jonathan Swift.

There is almost no precedent for a two-cathedral city, and some believe it was intended that St Patrick's, a secular (diocesan clergy who are not members of a religious order, i.e. under a rule and, therefore, "regular") cathedral, would replace Christ Church, a cathedral managed by an order.

A confrontational situation persisted, with considerable tension, over the decades after the establishment of St Patrick's, and was eventually settled, more-or-less, by the signing of a six-point agreement of 1300, Pacis Compositio. Still extant, and in force until 1870, it provided that:

Over the following centuries, the two cathedrals functioned together in the diocese, until in the period of disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, the current designation of one as the cathedral of Dublin and Glendalough, and one as the National Cathedral, was developed.


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