Assumption Cathedral, Trois-Rivières
The Assumption Cathedral also called Paroisse Immaculée-Conception It is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trois-Rivieres in Quebec in eastern Canada, since the nineteenth century.
The parish of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin also includes, besides the cathedral, churches of Our Lady of the Seven Joys, St. Philip, St. Francis and St Cecilia.
The first Mass was celebrated in the local soil was the July 26, 1615 held by the Recollect Father Denys Jamet. Trois-Rivières was later erected in the parish on October 30, 1678 and the construction of the first church of twenty meters long and eight meters wide is then undertaken by François Boivin, master carpenter.
On June 8, 1852 Trois-Rivières is canonically erected by Pope Pius IX and Bishop Thomas Cooke became its first bishop. Is the 16 March 1854 which launched a construction project for the cathedral. It was inaugurated on September 29, 1858.
