Talk:List of cathedrals in the United States

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If you are writing an article about one of these cathedrals, please consider using the name of the city in the title of the article. Many of them have very common names (St. Paul's, for instance) and may be easily confused. Remember also, that this is a global encyclopedia. Given that Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism exist on every continent, there may well be duplicates of many of these cathedral names in other countries. Thank you! Rockhopper10r 00:32, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Adding...
Added "Christ Church Catherdral" Under Alabama (Mobile). It is the first US church to go through the process of trasitioning from church to catherdral in thirty years.
 * Your addition is appreciated, although that claim is not true. The Episcopal cathedrals for the dioceses of Western North Carolina and Oregon have gained that status in the last fifteen years. The Roman Catholic cathedrals in Venice and Palm Beach, Florida, were elevated when those dioceses were created in the late 1980s. Also, the word "Anglican" can be a bit confusing for an American cathedral. If it is not part of ECUSA, please specify with which Anglican group it is affiliated. Thanks! Rockhopper10r 04:17, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

St. Matthew's
The proper name of the Washington D.C. cathedral is "The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle" not "St. Matthew's Cathedral," although the latter is a common nickname. We should list under the official name, however, and I've reverted accordingly. Essjay ·  talk 06:03, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Cathedral of Hope
The link under Texas for Cathedral of Hope does not link to a church in Texas --Eddylyons 01:24, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I deleted the link. --Eddylyons 18:47, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Cathedral of Learning?
What about secular institutions that are called cathedrals such as the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_Paul_in_Pittsburgh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.17.181.229 (talk) 03:08, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * They're not really cathedrals. Tb (talk) 03:40, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Some changes
I have done some reworking to try to catch all the cathedrals of the various hierarchically constituted churches. Generally, with a few exceptions, this means those containing the words Catholic, Orthodox, Episcopal, Anglican, plus the American branches of the ancient Armenian church. I have generally tried to be inclusive, and have sought out more obscure jurisdictions, though I have only included so-called "cathedral parishes" if they have an actual church building and at least one dependent congregation. I only removed three cathedrals from the list; two Episcopal "Cathedral Chapels" that are apparently chapels in administrative buildings in Los Angeles and San Antonio, and an Old Catholic "cathedral" in Chicago that apparently never had its own building and for which I can not locate any signs that any community is still functioning. I also tried to make the presentation more consistent. Much work to be done yet with links, formatting, etc., but I wanted to get the list up. I left the other churches with "cathedral" in the name in a separate section at the end. 71.171.16.185 (talk) 22:06, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

About "other" churches
I think that, by the definition of cathedral used in the heading of this article and in the article on "cathedral," certain churches aren't cathedrals by the strict definition. The African Methodist Episcopal, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and the United Methodist Church (formerly "Methodist Episcopal Church) do have leaders named bishops, but these bishops function somewhat differently from bishops in the churches which have or claim to have apostolic succession. Most importantly, the handful of churches in these denominations named "cathedrals" are not the seats of bishops, but are rather large and important local churches.  Therefore I have placed them in the separate section at the end.

what qualifies
I removed a listing for a "cathedral" of the Reformed Catholic Church in Tempe that meets in a clubhouse. (Another cathedral of this group in Columbus Ohio has acquired a church building and is listed.)

I, having greatly expanded the coverage of the smaller jurisdictions in the list, thought that the criteria of 1) having a church building and 2) having at least one functioning dependent congregation (or belonging to a larger jurisdiction that has one) were reasonable criteria.Zipcedric (talk) 17:23, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Suburbs
I undid changes removing the names of cities in parentheses, figuring that information about the metropolitan area was of encyclopedic value in such a list; with very few exceptions the city in parentheses is the central city of the SMSA or CMSA in which the cathedral is located. (In a few cases a reference to a more general region is made.) In a very few cases, a district within a city is commonly known by and has mail addressed to a different name (notably districts in Queens in New York City and the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, and Eagle River in Anchorage.) I generally tried to put those in subheadings for those cities, though it is not totally consistent yet. I didn't generally add metro area subheadings for Roman (Latin rite)Catholic cathedrals which serve a separate diocese named after the see city where the cathedral is located. Zipcedric (talk) 18:50, 30 January 2012 (UTC)99.33.232.184 (talk) 18:30, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Template limit
This page calls on the coord template so often that it hits the template limit and the last few templates on the page don't display. In fact, the coordinates for the cathedrals in the last nine states alphabetically have not even been added to the page yet, so eventually the coord template is likely to be called on even more often. There are at least two solutions to this I can think of: (1) split the page up into separate pages, or (2) remove some of the uses of the coord template. Does anyone have any other ideas? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:59, 23 February 2013 (UTC)


 * This issue has been encountered in other lists, such as List of monastic houses in England. The remedy there was to arrange the page as a list of transclusions, with the transcluded lists as articles in their own right, however on the main page the ref and coord templates had to be noincluded from the main list, otherwise the template limit is still reached on the main page. That is not an ideal situation and the best solution would be for the Wikipedia template limit to be increased. JohnArmagh (talk) 21:38, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

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ACNA Clarification
I added notes to Cathedrals of the Anglican Church in North America as well as other Anglican Continuum/Realignment denominations clarifying that they are not in communion with the Anglican Communion through the Archbishop of Canterbury. Ecrowley1776 (talk) 21:45, 9 July 2023 (UTC)


 * This is unnecessary - it is not done for other denominations (Orthodox, Old Catholic, etc.) to clarify intercommunion relationships on this list and introduces clutter. It is clear from designating which church the cathedral represents that they are not Episcopal; readers can click through to the relevant denomination's Wikipedia article if they need clarity about intercommunion arrangements. Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:07, 18 September 2023 (UTC)