Location Tegucigalpa Denomination Roman Catholic Church | Country Honduras Architectural type church | |
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Similar Museo de Historia Republic, Museum for National Identity, Iglesia de Los Dolores, Our Lady of Suyapa, La Tigra National Park | ||
The St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral Metropolitana de San Míguel Arcángel ) It is a Catholic religious building in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In 1746, a fire consumed the temple dedicated to the town of Tegucigalpa, which is destroyed. It is when the Bishop of Honduras Diego Rodriguez de Rivas and Velasco, at that time apostolic hierarch in the city of Comayagua, in 1756 ordered the construction of a new temple on the same site, charging that objective the priest Jose Simeon Zelaya Cepeda.
The parish of St. Michael the Archangel was founded in 1763, while the cathedral began to be built between 1765-1786 by Father Jose Simeon Zelaya Cepeda, who had studied in the Tridentine College of Comayagua, the architect was Joseph Gregory Nazianzen Quiroz, of Guatemalan origin; the work was consecrated and inaugurated by Fray Antonio de San Miguel in 1782.