SteepleScape: Looking Up
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The Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral of Charleston co-mingles its spires and crosses in this view east in the direction of the state Capitol. What the dickens is a co-cathedral anyway and how come Charleston has to share? A co-cathedral, avers Wikipiedia, "is a cathedral church which shares the honor of being a bishop's seat, or cathedra, with another cathedral... In the United States, the Roman Catholic diocese that encompasses most of the state of West Virginia is known as the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston after its two cathedral cities." For more than you ever wished to know, read on.
2 Comments:
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I actually work at Charleston Catholic and never knew why the church was called a Co-Cathedral. :)
I love your blog!
Thank you, Rebecca!
I had wondered about it, too, and was pleased to find little 'ol Charleston right up there in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry. I am not in that end of town much and I wonder: do they still ring the Sacred Heart church bells regularly? It's one of the things I love most about European towns.
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