St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
| St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin | |
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| 53°20′22″N 6°16′17″W / 53.33944°N 6.27139°WCoordinates: 53°20′22″N 6°16′17″W / 53.33944°N 6.27139°W | |
| 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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