List of cathedrals in Slovenia

Last updated April 19, 2019

This is a list of cathedrals in Slovenia. All are Roman Catholic.

A cathedral is a church that contains the cathedra of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. The equivalent word in German for such a church is Dom ; see also Duomo in Italian, Dom(kerk) in Dutch, and cognates in many other European languages. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, and some Lutheran and Methodist churches. Church buildings embodying the functions of a cathedral first appeared in Italy, Gaul, Spain and North Africa in the 4th century, but cathedrals did not become universal within the Western Catholic Church until the 12th century, by which time they had developed architectural forms, institutional structures and legal identities distinct from parish churches, monastic churches and episcopal residences.

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Cathedral	Present Archdiocese or Diocese	Location	Dedication	Status
Celje Cathedral Stolnica sv. Daniela, Celje	Diocese of Celje	Celje	Saint Daniel	elevated on the creation of the diocese in 2006
Koper Cathedral Stolnica Marijinega vnebovzetja, Koper	Diocese of Koper	Koper	Assumption of the Virgin Mary	also known as Capodistria; diocese re-created in 1977
Nova Gorica Cathedral Stolna cerkev Kristus Odrešenik, Nova Gorica	Diocese of Koper	Nova Gorica	Christ the Redeemer	co-cathedral since 2003
Ljubljana Cathedral Stolnica sv. Nikolaja, Ljubljana	Archdiocese of Ljubljana	Ljubljana	Saint Nicholas	re-elevated to an archdiocese in 1961
Maribor Cathedral Stolnica sv. Janeza Krstnika, Maribor	Archdiocese of Maribor	Maribor	Saint John the Baptist	elevated on the creation of the diocese in 1962; archdiocese since 2006
Murska Sobota Cathedral Stolnica sv. Nikolaja, Murska Sobota	Diocese of Murska Sobota	Murska Sobota	Saint Nicholas	elevated on the creation of diocese in 2006
Novo Mesto Cathedral Stolnica sv. Nikolaja, Novo mesto, also Kapiteljska cerkev svetega Nikolaja	Diocese of Novo Mesto	Novo Mesto	Saint Nicholas	previously a collegiate or chapter church; elevated on the creation of the diocese in 2006

Celje Cathedral
Koper Cathedral
Ljubljana Cathedral
Maribor Cathedral
Murska Sobota Cathedral
Novo Mesto Cathedral

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List of cathedrals in Slovenia

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