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Versailles Cathedral

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Location
  
Versailles, France

Ecclesiastical or organizational status
  
Cathedral

Completed
  
1754

Architectural style
  
Classical architecture

Year consecrated
  
1843

Affiliation
  
Roman Catholic

Groundbreaking
  
1743

Opened
  
1754

Phone
  
+33 1 39 50 40 65

Architectural type
  
Church architecture

Versailles Cathedral

Address
  
4 Place Saint-Louis, 78000 Versailles, France

District
  
Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles

Similar
  
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Versailles Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Versailles) is a Roman Catholic church located in Versailles, France. It is a national monument.

It is the seat of the Bishop of Versailles, created as a constitutional bishopric in 1790 and confirmed by the Concordat of 1801.

It was built as the parish church of Saint Louis before becoming the cathedral of the new diocese. The building is of the mid-18th century: the first stone was laid, by Louis XV, on 12 June 1743 and the church was consecrated on 24 August 1754. The architect was Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne (1711-1778), a grandson of the famous architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart. In 1764 Louis-François Trouard added the Chapelle de la Providence (now the Chapelle des Catéchismes) to the northern transept.

During the French Revolution it was used as a Temple of Abundance, and badly defaced.

It was chosen and used as the cathedral by the post-Revolutionary bishop, who preferred it to the church of Notre-Dame in Versailles, which had been the choice of the preceding constitutional bishop. Its consecration as a cathedral was however severely delayed, and was not performed until 1843, by the diocese's third bishop, Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul.

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