Saint John's Co-Cathedral
St John's Co-Cathedral is a Catholic co-cathedral in Valletta, Malta, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. It was built by the Order of St. John between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the Conventual Church of Saint John.
Façade of St John's Co-Cathedral in 2020
The co-cathedral in the 1870s
The façade of St. John's Co-Cathedral being restored in 2014
Main altar
A co-cathedral is a cathedral church which shares the function of being a bishop's seat, or cathedra, with another cathedral, often in another city. Instances of this occurred in England before the Protestant Reformation in the dioceses of 'Bath and Wells', and of 'Coventry and Lichfield'. These two dioceses were each named for both cities that served as bishop's seats.
Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels, Belgium.
Basilica concattedrale di Maria Santissima della Madia, Monopoli
St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, Maryland.