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The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is the Catholic Cathedral of Thessaloniki. The building was completed in 1902 according to a design by Vitaliano Poselli.

The Kasper Icon Cathedral of the Mother of God is an Orthodox cathedral whose construction began in 1904 with the architect Fyodor Eppinger. The construction was supervised by the municipal architect Eugene Shtukenberg. The church was consecrated in 1908. From 1934 to 1992, with a brief interruption during the Second World War, the church was closed. From 1994 to 2004, the outer part of the cathedral was rebuilt. In 2010, the restoration of the interior was completed.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ is a Russian Orthodox church, built between 1998 and 2000. The cathedral was built by the architect from Tiraspol, P. Yablonskiy, in the style of churches of ancient Russia in the 17th century with a low drum dome.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ was originally a Jesuit church built in the late Baroque style from 1755 to 1770 by the Jesuit architect Michał Radzyminski. In 1773, Pope Clement XIV abolished the Jesuit order and closed down all its institutions in Poland and Russia. In 1782, the church and monastery were transferred to the Greek Catholic order of Basilians, and in 1840, following the order's conversion to Orthodoxy, the monastery became Orthodox. In 1921, however, after the annexation of Volhynia to Poland, the church was again transferred to the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic parish of the church functioned until 1945 because during the Second World War a bomb explosion damaged the northern sacristy and the presbytery. In 1991, the church was again transferred to the Orthodox community.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Jesus is the Albanian Orthodox Cathedral of Shkodër. The building was completed in 2000, near the site of a wooden church, which was severely damaged by an attack in August 1998. The present stone building consists of a large nave with several domes and a bell tower separate from the main body.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was built between 2008 and 2011. The cathedral was built as part of a project to create the Konotop historical and cultural complex. The Ukrainian diaspora from various countries made a huge contribution to the construction of the cathedral. Near the cathedral, there is a memorial panel in honour of the defenders of the city during the siege of Konotop in 1659.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God is the cathedral of the Greek Catholic Eparchy in Košice. The church was built between 1882 and 1898 according to the design of William Kolatsek and the builder Ludovit Schmidt. It is built in a neo-Romanesque style. An iconostasis and a pulpit were installed in 1901. The church became a cathedral after the establishment of the Košice Apostolic Exarchate in 1997.

The Cathedral of the Presentation of the Lord was built in 1889 in the neoclassical style. In 1930 the cathedral was closed by the Soviet authorities and in 1938 the upper part of the cathedral - the pavilion and the bell tower - was destroyed. The Bolsheviks converted the lower part of the cathedral into a warehouse. In 1941 the cathedral was reopened, but it was closed again in 1962 and waited another 40 years to be reopened.

The Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ is a former Jesuit church built between 1720 and 1729, but the present Baroque church was built in the years 1752-1761. Since 1885 it has been a Greek-Catholic cathedral. In 1905, the authorities ordered the renovation of the façade. The building of the former monastery still adjoins the church.

The Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ is the main cathedral of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Built in the neo-historical style, the church was consecrated on 27 March 2011, when the seat of the Lviv Patriarchate was transferred there.