St. Joseph Cathedral
National Register of Historic Places

St. Joseph Cathedral

Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana
Listed
March 22, 1990
Type
Building
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
90000502

About this property

St. Joseph Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral located in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is the mother church of the Diocese of Baton Rouge, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 22, 1990. St. Joseph Parish was founded as the Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in 1792; its name was changed some time after Louisiana became a State in 1812 as English became more and more the language of the population in Baton Rouge. The present church building, the Parish's third, was begun in 1853 and completed in 1856. The church was designated the cathedral church of the Diocese of Baton Rouge by Pope John XXIII in the bull of erection "Peramplum Novae Aureliae" dated July 22, 1961; the erection of the diocese took place on November 8, 1961, with Most Rev. Robert Emmet Tracy as is first bishop. The church building underwent a significant interior renovation in 1967 and was re-dedicated on September 30, 1970. National Register of Historic Places listings in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Media related to St. Joseph Cathedral (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) at Wikimedia Commons Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge Official Site

Location

Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana
30.45194, -91.18648

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When was St. Joseph Cathedral listed on the National Register?

St. Joseph Cathedral was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 22, 1990.

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St. Joseph Cathedral is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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