Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, Prešov

The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Slovak: Katedrála svätého Jána Krstiteľa) in Prešov is a Greek Catholic cathedral, the seat of Archbishop of Prešov and the metropolitan church of Slovak Greek Catholic Province. Former eparchy bishops and martyrs Pavol Gojdič and Vasiľ Hopko^[1] are buried here. In the temple there also is a copy of Shroud of Turin.

A hospital chapel was built on the site by the Augustinians in the late 1300s; ownership of the site changed hands several times and it became a monastery in the late 1600s.^[2]

The building became a cathedral in 1818.^[3] It was transferred to the Greek Catholic Church in 1999.^[2]

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Cathedrals of the Catholic Church in Slovakia

Latin Church

• St Francis Xavier Cathedral (Banská Bystrica)
• St Martin's Cathedral (Bratislava)
• Cathedral of St. Elizabeth (Košice)
• St Emmeram's Cathedral (Nitra)
• Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows (Poprad)
• Co-Cathedral of Saint Nicholas (Prešov)
• Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Rožňava)
• St Martin's Cathedral (Spišská Kapitula)
• St John the Baptist Cathedral (Trnava)
• Holy Trinity Cathedral (Žilina)

Slovak Greek Catholic Church

• Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Bratislava)
• Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God (Košice)
• Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Prešov)

Military Ordinariate

• Old Cathedral of Saint John of Matha and Saint Felix of Valois (Bratislava)
• Cathedral of Saint Sebastian (Bratislava)

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