Valence Cathedral

Valence Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Valence, Drome, France. The house of God is in the Romanesque engineering convention. It is committed to Saint Apollinaris of Valence. It is the seat of the Bishop of Valence. The Cathedral of Valence was initially devoted to Saints Cornelius and Cyprian mid-third century saints, Bishops of Rome and of Carthage, separately. In 1095, amid a visit to France, Pope Urban II rededicated the church to Saint Apollinaris, one of Valence's 6th century clerics.

The apse is encompassed by four semi-round houses of prayer. It endured broad harm in the French Wars of Religion, yet it was reestablished in the primary decade of the seventeenth century. Pope Pius VI, who had been taken prisoner and extradited from Italy by troops of the French Directory, was detained in the post of Valence. Following a month and a half he passed on there, on 29 August 1799. The congregation contains the landmark to Pope Pius VI.