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23-619: Construction of the cathedral of Mérida began in 1561, and it was completed in 1598. It was the second cathedral to be completed in the Americas (the Cathedral of Santo Domingo , completed in 1550, was the first). It is a unique monument with clear antecedents in Andalusia . The seat of the bishopric of Yucatán, the cathedral was built on the site of Mayan ruins T'ho . The bishopric of Yucatán had an uncertain start. The Yucatán peninsula

46-528: A second wave of anti-Spanish sentiment led to the entire coat of arms being buried beneath a slab on cement. The cement was later removed to reveal the coat of arms as can be seen today. On the cathedral facade there are statues of St. Peter and St. Paul. The statue of St. Paul is distinguished by the sword and the book he is holding. St. Peter is depicted holding the keys to the Church. Cathedral of Santo Domingo The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in

69-533: A vast artistic treasure made up of altarpieces , paintings (including a panel of the Virgin of la Altagracia dated 1523), old cabinetry, furniture, monuments and tombstones, among other objects. The mausoleums of the archbishops of the colonial period stand out, it is also worth mentioning the tombstone of Simón Bolívar , one of the predecessors of the Liberator. The remains of Christopher Columbus were housed in

92-421: Is built with calcareous stone, although some walls are made of masonry and bricks, and it has twelve side chapels, three free naves and a main nave. The roof of the central nave is pitched. Those of the side naves are made up of ribbed vaults that face the outside, as if they were hemispherical domes. The greatest length of the basilica is 54 m from the central nave to the bottom of the presbytery . The width of

115-818: The Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic . The see was erected 8 August 1511 as the Diocese of Santo Domingo and elevated to archdiocese on 12 February 1546. In recognition of the fact that the see was the first established in the Western Hemisphere , the Archbishop of Santo Domingo can use the title of " Primate of the Indies ", according to the bull of Pope Pius VII Divinis praeceptis issued on 28 November 1816 and ratified by

138-786: The Colonial City of Santo Domingo is dedicated to St. Mary of the Incarnation. It is the oldest existing cathedral in the Americas , begun in 1504 and was completed in 1550, and the second constructed, after the Garðar Cathedral Ruins in Greenland. It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Santo Domingo who has the honorary title of Primate of the Indies because this cathedral was the first diocese and

161-1000: The Concordat between the Holy See and the Dominican Republic signed on 16 June 1954. The archiepiscopal see is the Santa María la Menor cathedral , a World Heritage Site , dedicated to St. Mary of the Incarnation, which was designated a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XV in his apostolic letter Inter Americae on 14 June 1920. As per 2014, it pastorally served 3,457,347 Catholics (95.0% of 3,639,313 total) on 4,032 km in 214 parishes with 478 priests (190 diocesan, 288 religious), 159 deacons, 2,845 lay religious (610 brothers, 2,235 sisters) and 284 seminarians. The Metropolitan's suffragan sees are : Erected: August 8, 1511 Elevated February 12, 1546 [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

184-568: The Mayan temple of Yajam Cumu to build the cathedral. Two known Mayan workers were Francisco Pool, and Diego Can. Although architect Juan Miguel de Agüero completed the cathedral, it was Don Pedro de Aulestia who led the initial construction. The coat of arms on the cathedral facade was originally designed to reflect the Spanish royal coat of arms. The original royal coat consisted of four sections containing symbols of gold castles and crowned lions. At

207-464: The Spanish Crown but neither could be consecrated for entirely accidental reasons. A third candidate, fray Francisco Toral, was eventually consecrated and took possession on August 14, 1562. He was the first of a long line of bishops, later archbishops, of Yucatán. The system of vaulting used throughout the building was based on the ideas of Andres de Vandelvira, first applied to the building of

230-561: The capital of the new colony. The colonial city was set amidst the ruins of the Maya settlement of Ichcansiho (T'ho for short), and work for the church was begun shortly after Toral's arrival. The church was to be built on the eastern side on the main town square, where a temporary building with a roof of palms was erected. It was not until 1562 that construction of the cathedral began. Labor for this construction came from Mayans, some of who still practiced their own religion. Laborers used stones from

253-470: The cathedral for a time, which were transferred in 1795 to the Cathedral of Havana and finally, between 1898 and 1899, to the Cathedral of Seville . The valuable archiepiscopal throne, in the Plateresque style, dates from 1540. It was part of the lower choir, dismantled at the end of the last century to place the marble monument in which the remains of Christopher Columbus were kept. The cathedral

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276-573: The cathedral of Jaen. Indeed, there is every possibility that Vandelvira's schemes were brought to the Mérida project by the first bishop of Yucatán, fray Francisco Toral, who hailed from Ubeda, a town in the Jaen province. References to the cathedral can be found in the Books of Chilam Balam . Land had been set aside for the cathedral at Mérida, the place recycled by the Spanish under Francisco de Montejo as

299-478: The city of Santo Domingo de Guzmán. The Cathedral of Santo Domingo is the oldest existing in the Americas, built by order of Pope Julius II in 1504. Headquarters of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo , its construction began in 1512, under the pastoral government of the first bishop of Santo Domingo, Friar García Padilla, who never came to the island; based on plans by the architect Alonso de Rodríguez. With

322-629: The crypt of the Archbishops and the lateral Baptismal chapel. Among the works, the painting of Our Lady of la Antigua, donated by the Admiral. The organ was brought to Magdeburg in 1860. The architecture of the building of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo is characterized by a Gothic style with ribbed vaults , solid walls and three doors, two of them Gothic in contrast to the third and main of Gothic- Plateresque style. The cathedral contains

345-539: The oldest cathedral established in the New World in the post-Columbus era. The cathedral is fronted with a golden-tinted coral limestone façade. The building is Gothic , a notable example of real Gothic architecture outside Europe. There is also a treasury which has an excellent art collection of ancient woodcarvings, furnishings, funerary monuments, silver, and jewelry. It is located between Calle Arzobispo Merino and Isabel la Católica, next to Columbus Park in

368-606: The rank of Metropolitan Cathedral and Primate of America at the request of King Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor . Another promotion came in 1920 when Pope Benedict XV elevated it to "Minor Basilica of the Virgin of the Annunciation". In the second half of the 16th century, the Cloister sector was built on the south side, with the cells of the canons; another example is found in the Cathedral of Salamanca in Spain. In 1547

391-407: The south, the cloister called Plazoleta de los Curas. The annexes around the courtyard allow a passage called Callejón de Curas. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santo Domingo The Archdiocese of Santo Domingo ( Latin : Archidioecesis Metropolitae Sancti Dominici ; Spanish : Arquidiócesis Metropolitana de Santo Domingo ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of

414-469: The three naves is 23 m. The highest height from floor to vault reaches 16 meters, and the built area exceeds 3,000 square meters. Fourteen side chapels were built throughout the cathedral's history. The surroundings of the cathedral are formulated in three independent spaces, to the north the Plaza de Armas, the battlemented atrium is like an antechamber that marks the main entrance to the religious complex. To

437-409: The very top of the coat was a representation of the royal crown of Spain. After Mexico's independence, the shield was partially destroyed due to anti-Spanish sentiment. The central piece of the shield containing the castles and lions were removed using a pickaxes and chisels. In 1824, the empty shield was filled with a Mexican eagle wearing the imperial crown of Iturbide. After the redesign of the shield,

460-539: The work on the bell tower was interrupted, because its height, surpassing the Homage tower , had caused disturbances to the sentinels. It was the headquarters of the troops of Sir Francis Drake during his invasion of 1586, who sacked it. Apparently in 1665 there was a second consecration. Initially without chapels , in 1740 it had 9 and currently it has 14. The Chapels of Alonso de Suazo, Rodrígo, Bastídas, Geraldini and Diego Caballero deserve special mention, as well as

483-473: The work stopped, they continued with a new design by Luis de Moya and Rodrigo de Liendo in 1522 with the intervention of Bishop Alessandro Geraldini . The architect Alonso González, inspired by the Seville Cathedral , partially completed the church in 1550. Successively Alonso de Fuenmayor , promoted the works and on August 31, 1541, it was consecrated. In 1546 Pope Paul III elevated it to

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506-468: Was explored by Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba and Juan de Grijalva on behalf of Diego Velazquez de Cuellar, the adelantado of Cuba, in 1517 and 1518. The creation of a diocese in the recently discovered country was urged by Velazquez, who presumed to have jurisdiction over the region and hoped to colonize it. An episcopal see known as "Carolense" was indeed created by Pope Leo X in 1519 (later renamed "Our Lady of Remedies" by Clement VII ). But said diocese

529-400: Was not implemented in the territory of Yucatán but in that of Tlaxcala instead and later on was moved to Puebla. It cannot therefore be considered the predecessor of the diocese of Yucatán. The diocese of Yucatán proper, named "Yucatan and Cozumel," was created by Pius IV in 1561. St. Ildephonsus of Toledo was invoked as the patron. Two prelates for the new see were nominated in succession by

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