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St. Gertrude's Cathedral

20th-century churches in the NetherlandsCathedrals in the NetherlandsCatholic cathedrals in EuropeCatholicism in the NetherlandsChurches completed in 1914
Churches in Utrecht (city)Old Catholic church buildings
Sint Gertrudiskathedraal
Sint Gertrudiskathedraal

St. Gertrude's Cathedral (Dutch: Sint-Gertrudiskathedraal) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is the seat of the Archbishop of Utrecht and the mother church of the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands (and of the wider Old Catholic Communion). It is located at Willemsplantsoen, at the edge of the city centre. The current church building was constructed between 1912 and 1914, and was designed by E.G. Wentinck (nl) in Neo-Romanesque style, echoing St. Mary's Church, which formerly stood on the Mariaplaats, very close by. In the altar there are more than 1700 relics in hundreds of containers. Underneath these relics there is supposed to be a piece of a rib of St. Willibrord.

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St. Gertrude's Cathedral
Mariahoek, Utrecht

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Mariahoek
3511 LE Utrecht (Utrecht)
Utrecht, Netherlands
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