Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville
The Archdiocese of Louisville is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in central Kentucky in the United States. The cathedral church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville, Kentucky. The archdiocese is the seat of the metropolitan see of the Province of Louisville, which encompasses the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. The archdiocese is the second-oldest diocese west of the Appalachian Mountains, after the Archdiocese of New Orleans. As of 2023, the archbishop of Louisville is Shelton Fabre.
Cathedral of the Assumption
Image: Archdiocese of Louisville
St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral
The Cathedra of the archbishop of Louisville
Cathedral of the Assumption (Louisville, Kentucky)
The Cathedral of the Assumption is a Catholic cathedral in Louisville, Kentucky, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Louisville. It is the seat of Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre, and Martin A. Linebach, vicar general for the archdiocese, serves as rector.
Cathedral of the Assumption (Louisville, Kentucky)
Image of the interior of the cathedral, circa 1900
Night view of the restored cathedral tower, after the 1998 renovations
The cathedral nave