St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral
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St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral, 2013
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| Location | 183 Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 16°55′02″S 145°46′21″E / 16.9171°S 145.7726°ECoordinates: 16°55′02″S 145°46′21″E / 16.9171°S 145.7726°E |
| Design period | 1940s - 1960s (post-World War II) |
| Built | 1967 - 1968 |
| Architect | Ian Ferrier |
| Architectural style(s) | Modernism |
| Official name: St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 31 August 1998 |
| Reference no. | 601961 |
| Significant period | 1960s (historical) 1960s (fabric) ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | views to, furniture/fittings, stained glass window/s, cathedral, memorial - cathedral, baptistry |
 Location of St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral, Cairns in Queensland
Location of St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral, Cairns in Queensland
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St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic cathedral at 183 Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Ian Ferrier and built from 1967 to 1968. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 31 August 1998.
St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral, dedicated as a memorial to the Battle of the Coral Sea, was constructed in 1967-68. The Cathedral is surrounded by the Old Cathedral, Bishop's House, St Joseph's Convent and St Monica's High School Administration Building, which together form a highly intact ecclesiastical group. St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral is the only Cathedral in Cairns, as the seat of the Anglican Bishops in the region was Thursday Island, for the Diocese of Carpentaria, until it was incorporated into the Diocese of North Queensland centred in Townsville.
Cairns was established in October 1876, as a port to service the Hodgkinson goldfields. In the same year the area from Cardwell to Cape York was separated from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brisbane as the Pro-Vicariate of North Queensland. In 1884 three Irish Augustinian fathers took charge of the Pro-Vicariate, establishing a priory at Cooktown, and in 1885 they founded the parish of St Monica's at Cairns. An acre of land bounded by Abbott, Minnie and Lake Streets was acquired and the first St Monica's Church, a timber building at the corner of Abbott and Minnie Streets, was opened on 10 January 1886. A school fronting Minnie Street opened at the beginning of the 1890 school year - staffed initially by lay teachers, but from October 1892 by Sisters of Mercy from St Mary's Convent in Cooktown, who established a foundation in Cairns. In 1906 the Vicar Apostolic of Cooktown moved his residence to Cairns, which had eclipsed Cooktown as the principal port of Far North Queensland, and at this time St Monica's Church acquired the status of Pro-Cathedral.
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