Sarlat-la-Canéda, FR

Cathédrale de Sarlat

Saint-Sacerdos Cathedral in Sarlat is the co-cathedral of the diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat. The church was originally built as part of the abbey of Sarlat (founded in the 9th century). The diocese of Sarlat was created in 1317, along with several other Catholic dioceses in the Aquitaine region, following the victory of the French royal forces over the Albigensian Cathar armies. Pope John XXII, former archpriest of Sarlat and bishop of Fréjus and Avignon, appointed the abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Sacerdos as the new bishop of the town. The former Romanesque abbey church thus became the cathedral of the diocese. In 1504, it was decided to build a new cathedral, which was not completed until the 1680s.

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