St Patrick's Cathedral - Dublin, Ireland
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Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, is the larger of Dublin's two Church of Ireland cathedrals. Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
Date Posted: 11/16/2011
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«Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, also known as The National Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin or in the Irish language as Árd Eaglais Naomh Pádraig, founded in 1191, is the larger of Dublin's two Church of Ireland cathedrals, and the largest church in Ireland with a 43 metre (140 feet) spire.
Unusually, it is not the seat of a bishop today, as Dublin's Church of Ireland Archbishop has his seat in Christ Church Cathedral, with Saint Patrick's being (since 1870) the National Cathedral for the whole island, drawing chapter members from each of the twelve dioceses of the Church of Ireland. Saint Patrick's is headed by a Dean, an office which has existed since 1219, the most famous holder being Jonathan Swift.
The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. The church operates in all parts of Ireland and is the second largest religious body on the island after the Roman Catholic Church. Like other Anglican churches it has retained elements of pre-Reformation practice and is episcopal in polity, while rejecting papal authority and incorporating many of the theological and liturgical reforms of the Reformation and the English Reformation in particular; in this regard the church formally identifies as both Catholic and Reformed, though people within the church may identify themselves more strongly as one or the other. Unlike most other churches of the Anglican Communion, however, for particular historical and cultural reasons the Church of Ireland is generally identified as being a Protestant church.»
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