The Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral () is the main

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Montevideo Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

, and seat of its archdiocese. It is located right in front of the Cabildo across Constitution Square, in the neighbourhood of

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and to the

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s of Montevideo,

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and James. There is one major altar, several side altars, memorials, and tombs of several of the former archbishops and bishops who served in the cathedral. On a side altar is venerated an image of the Virgin of the Thirty-Three,

of Uruguay.

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