Saint Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh is the seat of the Archbishop of Armagh inside the Church of Ireland. It is placed in Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is likewise the cathedral of the Diocese of Armagh. The origins of the cathedral are associated with the construction in 445 of a stone church on the Druim Saileach hill by way of St. Patrick, round which a monastic network superior. The church became traditionally the centre of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, having been transferred to the Protestant Church of Ireland thru the English governmen under Henry VIII during theIrish Protestant Reformation.

Following the Henrician Reformation in Ireland the cathedral have grow to be more and more related to the then Established Church and has been definitively in Anglican hands because the reign of Elizabeth I. A Roman Catholic cathedral became constructed on a neighbouring hill inside the 19th century. Cordial contributors of the circle of relatives exist among both cathedrals. The church itself has been destroyed and rebuilt 17 times. The edifice have become renovated and restored under Dean Eoghan McCawell at the start of the sixteenth century having suffered from a devastating hearth in 1511 and being in negative form.