Créteil Cathedral

Créteil Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Créteil) is a Roman Catholic church in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France. The present cathedral was completed in 2015, replacing the previous building. It is the seat of the Bishopric of Créteil, created in 1966.

Créteil Cathedral
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Créteil
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholic
ProvinceBishopric of Créteil
RegionVal-de-Marne
RiteRoman
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusCathedral
StatusActive
Location
LocationCréteil,  France
Geographic coordinates48°47′23″N 2°26′39″E
Architecture
Typechurch
Groundbreaking1966

First building

The first cathedral on the site was formerly a parish church opened on 18 June 1976, which was chosen as the cathedral of the new diocese in 1987. A modest structure, as was the wish of the ecclesiastical authorities of the period, it was located between the district of Montaigut and the Université Paris XII Val-de-Marne.

Before the consecration in 1976, the interim cathedral of the diocese was the church of Saint Louis and Saint Nicholas at Choisy-le-Roi.

Present building

On 19 and 20 June 2010 a project was announced ( the Projet Créteil Cathédrale+) to bring about the transformation of the original modest cathedral building into a more welcoming, more luminous and more visible symbol of the presence of the Church in Val-de-Marne. The works began in 2013 with the demolition of the initial building. The new cathedral, designed by the architect Charles-Gustave Stoskopf, opened for worship in 2015.[1]

References
  1. LaCroix.com: La nouvelle cathédrale de Créteil s'ouvre aux yeux du public. Samuel Bleynie, 5 July 2015


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