Move by Pope Leo is centuries in the making and offers insight into city’s complex history
St Mary’s Pro Cathedral. Photo: Mark Condren
Dublin is to finally get a Catholic cathedral – again. Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary’s Pro Cathedral as the city’s official Catholic cathedral. It is the first time since the Reformation that Dublin will have a Catholic cathedral.
The announcement was made on the feast day of Dublin’s patron saint, Laurence O’Toole, by Archbishop Dermot Farrell, exactly 200 years after St Mary’s was dedicated on November 14, 1825, by Archbishop Daniel Murray.