Church of St Andrew, Sankt Andrä

Church of St Andrew, Sankt Andrä
Sankt Andrä Cathedral
Pfarrkirche Sankt Andrä; Dom Sankt Andrä
Location Sankt Andrä
Country  Austria
Denomination Roman Catholic Church

The Church of St Andrew, Sankt Andrä im Lavanttal, formerly Sankt Andrä Cathedral (German: Dom Sankt Andrä; Pfarrkirche St. Andrä im Lavanttal) is a Roman Catholic church in Sankt Andrä im Lavanttal at the southern end of the Lavant Valley, Carinthia, Austria.[1][2] For more than 600 years, between 1228 and 1859, it was the cathedral of the Diocese of Lavant.

The first mention of a parish in the Lavanttal occurs in the year 888. The first reliable mention of a church dates from 1145. In 1225 an Augustinian monastery was founded in Sankt Andrä, the church of which was declared the cathedral of the small Diocese of Lavant created in 1228. In 1859 the seat of the diocese was transferred to the Church of St John the Baptist in Marburg an der Drau (the present Maribor Cathedral) without the Carinthian parishes, which were transferred to the Diocese of Gurk.[3]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch. Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Kärnten. Neubearbeitung, 3rd, expanded and improved edition, edited by Gabriele Russwurm-Biró. Anton Schroll, Wien 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X, pp. 712–714.
  2. ↑ Gottfried Biedermann, Karin Leitner: Gotik in Kärnten (photos by Wim van der Kallen). Verlag Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2, p. 102.
  3. ↑ In 1962 the Diocese of Lavant was abolished and replaced by the Diocese of Maribor.

Coordinates: 46°45′54″N 14°49′23″E / 46.7651°N 14.8230°E / 46.7651; 14.8230

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