The Metropolitan Cathedral of Cebu and Parish of Saint Vitalis of Milan or commonly known as the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral is the ecclesiastical seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cebu in Cebu City, Philippines. The church is dedicated to Saint Vitalis of Milan. Cebu was established as a diocese on August 14, 1595. It was elevated as a metropolitan archdiocese on April 28, 1934, with the dioceses of Dumaguete, Maasin, Tagbilaran, and Talibon as suffragans. Before being raised as a primatial church in Cebu, the church was one of the first churches in the Philippines, dedicated to St. Vitalis, and built near the fort in April 1565 by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, Fray Andrés de Urdaneta and Fray Diego de Herrera.
Cathedral Roman Catholic
St. Vitales
Cebu City
St. Vitales is a cathedral church of the Diocese of Cebu in Cebu City. Its patronal feast is kept on February 14.
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About
- Patron
- St. Vitales
- Feast day
- February 14
- Rite
- Roman Catholic
- Diocese
- Diocese of Cebu
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