Jerez de LA Frontera Cathedral

Jerez de los angeles Frontera Cathedral is a Catholic church positioned in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, southern Spain. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Asidonia-Jerez. It become d Bien de Interes Cultural in 1931. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jerez de los angeles Frontera is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. Its call derives from the localities of Medina-Sidonia and Jerez de LA Frontera. Built inside the seventeenth century, it is a mixture of Gothic, Baroque and Neoclassical style. It was extended to the rank of cathedral in 1980.

A cathedral is a Christian church which contains the cathedra of a bishop, for that reason serving because the principal church of a diocese, convention, or episcopate. The equal phrase in German for this sort of church is Dom; see additionally Duomo in Italian, Dom in Dutch, and cognates in many different European languages. The cathedral is on a important plan with a nave and 4 aisles of choppy height. The building is supported externally by way of ordinary and flying buttresses and crossing the transept is a dome. The indoors houses a Virgin Mary by using Francisco Zurbaran, and a late 15th-century Gothic Crucifix.