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Roman Catholic Church
Créteil Cathedral
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Créteil
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholic
ProvinceBishopric of Créteil
RegionVal-de-Marne
RiteRoman
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusCathedral
StatusActive
Location
LocationCréteil, France
Geographic coordinates48°47′23″N 2°26′39″E / 48.78972°N 2.44417°E / 48.78972; 2.44417
Architecture
Typechurch
Groundbreaking1966

Créteil Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Créteil) is a Roman Catholic church in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France. The present cathedral was completed in 2015, replacing the previous building. It is the seat of the Bishopric of Créteil, created in 1966.

First building

The first cathedral on the site was formerly a parish church opened on 18 June 1976, which was chosen as the cathedral of the new diocese in 1987. A modest structure, as was the wish of the ecclesiastical authorities of the period, it was located between the district of Montaigut and the Université Paris XII Val-de-Marne.

Before the consecration in 1976, the interim cathedral of the diocese was the church of Saint Louis and Saint Nicholas at Choisy-le-Roi.

Present building

On 19 and 20 June 2010 a project was announced ( the Projet Créteil Cathédrale+) to bring about the transformation of the original modest cathedral building into a more welcoming, more luminous and more visible symbol of the presence of the Church in Val-de-Marne. The works began in 2013 with the demolition of the initial building. The new cathedral, designed by the architect Charles-Gustave Stoskopf, opened for worship in 2015.

References

  1. LaCroix.com: La nouvelle cathédrale de Créteil s'ouvre aux yeux du public. Samuel Bleynie, 5 July 2015

Sources and external links

Catholic Church in France
Bishops' Conference of France
Province of Besançon
Province of Bordeaux
Province of Clermont
Province of Dijon
Province of Lille
Province of Lyon
Province of Marseille
Province of Montpellier
Province of Paris
Province of Poitiers
Province of Reims
Province of Rennes
Province of Rouen
Province of Toulouse
Province of Tours
Province of Martinique
Province of Papeete
Province of Noumea
Directly under Holy See
Ordinariate
for Eastern Catholics
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