Stavanger Cathedral

Stavanger Cathedral is Norway's oldest cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Stavanger who leads the Diocese of Stavanger. It is placed in the city of Stavanger in Rogaland county, Norway. The church is located inside the centre of the city, within the borough of Storhaug between Breiavatnet in the south, the square with Vagen inside the north west, the cathedral square in the north, and Kongsgard within the southwest. The church is a part of the "Stavanger domkirke" parish inside the Stavanger arch-deanery within the Diocese of Stavanger.

Bishop Reinald, who can also have come from Winchester, is said to have began construction of the cathedral round 1100. It was finished around 1150: the metropolis of Stavanger counts 1125 as its yr of basis. The cathedral was committed to Saint Swithun, an early Bishop of Winchester and ultimately client saint of Winchester Cathedral. The church turned into to begin with the seat of the Diocese of Stavanger in the Roman Catholic Church till the Protestant Reformation.