Cavan Cathedral

The Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Felim, also known as Cavan Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral positioned in Cavan, Ireland. It is the seat of the Bishop of Kilmore, and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kilmore. In 1152, the Diocese of Kilmore changed into formally established through Cardinal Giovanni Paparoni at the synod of Kells. In 1454, Pope Nicholas V gave permission for the ancient church at Kilmore based within the 6th century by way of Saint Felim to be the cathedral church of Kilmore diocese.

It was rebuilt and became to be regarded in Irish as An Chill Mhor which means Great Church and anglicised as Kilmore, which gave its call to the diocese, a name which has remained ever when you consider that. During the Reformation, the Roman Catholic diocese lost possession of the cathedral and all the other temporalities and exceeded into the fingers of the Church of Ireland. Following the of entirety of the brand new Anglican cathedral in 1860, the pre-Reformation cathedral became a Church of Ireland parochial hall.