I love to spend time examining architectural details of buildings as we travel across the United States. Churches are among my favorite buildings to photograph because of architects' attention to detail across the decades and centuries.
Today we are visiting the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist.
It's time to consult the internet... Dictionary,com defines a Cathedral as the church building with the bishop's throne, the place of a bishop's authority. A bishop supervises several churches.
The Roman Catholic, Anglican, including US Episcopal, and some Lutheran Churches have Cathedrals because they are the bishops' "administrative" buildings.
Travel leads to all kinds of learning experiences, like today.
This is another example of how important details are... I thought I was visiting a Roman Catholic Church when I was at the Virgin Mary of Czestochowa Church in Latham, New York. The Holy Water Dispenser near the door is the only detail that stood out to me as not in keeping with Catholic traditions. This very Roman Catholic-looking Church is a Polish National Catholic Church and does not follow all the doctrines of the Pope in Rome.
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