Rochester Cathedral

Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an English church of Norman design in Rochester, Kent. The congregation is the house of God of the Diocese of Rochester in the Church of England and the seat cathedra of the Bishop of Rochester, the second most established priestly district in England after that of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The structure is a Grade I recorded building number 1086423. The Rochester ward was established by Justus, one of the ministers who went with Augustine of Canterbury to change over the agnostic southern English to Christianity in the mid seventh century.

As the principal Bishop of Rochester, Justus was allowed consent by King Æthelberht of Kent to set up a congregation devoted to Andrew the Apostle like the cloister at Rome where Augustine and Justus had set out for England on the site of the present church building, which was made the seat of a ward. The house of prayer was to be served by a school of mainstream ministers and was enriched with arrive close to the city called Priestfields.