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Subotica Subotica ( sr-cyrl, Суботица, ; hu, Szabadka) is a city and the administrative center of the North Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Formerly the largest city of Vojvodina region, contemporary Subotica is ...

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Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...

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Theresa of Avila Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name. It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') "to harvest or rea ...

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Cathedral A cathedral is a church that contains the ''cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominatio ...

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Monument of Culture of Great Importance Immovable Cultural Heritage of Exceptional Importance ( sr, Непокретна културна добра од изузетног значаја/) are those objects of Immovable cultural heritage that enjoy the highest level of state protection ...

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Diocese of Subotica The Roman Catholic Diocese of Subotica ( la, Dioecesis Suboticana, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Subotička biskupija, Суботичка бискупија, hu, Szabadkai Egyházmegye) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Serbia. It is subject to the ...

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and

located in

, the seat of the

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History

The cathedral was built between 1773 and 1779 in the baroque style. At the time, Subotica was part of the Habsburg monarchy. The building was designed by architect Franz Kaufmann from

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. The altar is decorated with several paintings by Josef Schoefft, one painting of the

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by Kasper Schleibne, and one painting of the

True Cross The True Cross is the cross upon which Jesus was said to have been crucified, particularly as an object of religious veneration. There are no early accounts that the apostles or early Christians preserved the physical cross themselves, althoug ...

Emmanuel Walch Immanuel ( he, עִמָּנוּאֵל, 'Īmmānū'ēl, meaning, "God is with us"; also romanized: , ; and or in Koine Greek of the New Testament) is a Hebrew name that appears in the Book of Isaiah (7:14) as a sign that God will protect the H ...

. The building is long and wide. The

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is tall, while the bell towers are tall. On the roof of the building, between the two bell towers, is a statue of

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. The

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was built in 1808. The pipe organ was installed in 1897 and renovated in 1997. New renovation works are planned for 2015. The whole interior of the church was renovated in 1972-73 for the bicentennial of the building. The building was declared the

in 1973. Pope

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granted the title of

Minor basilica In the Catholic Church, a basilica is a designation given by the Pope to a church building. Basilicas are distinguished for ceremonial purposes from other churches. The building need not be a basilica in the architectural sense (a rectangular ...

to the cathedral on 29 April 1974. There is a bust of

Aleksandar Lifka Aleksandar Lifka (20 May 1880 – 12 November 1952) was an Yugoslav cinematographer. Life Lifka was born in Braşov, Brassó in the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, in what is now Romania to a Czech family. After spending his childhood ...

in front of the church.

References

External links

Official web site
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History

See also

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