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We were here sometime May 2023 - The Cathedral still retains some semblance of its former glory. Being the seat of Catholic Christendom in all New Caledonia, I was expecting something ... The Cathedral in its current state needs a lot of 'TLC' and more ....
From Wikipedia :
Nouméa Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Joseph de Nouméa) is a Roman Catholic church in Nouméa, New Caledonia. The cathedral has been the seat since 1966 of the Archdiocese of Nouméa, to which the former Vicariate Apostolic of Nouvelle-Calédonie was elevated. ***
The cathedral, dedicated to Saint Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, was built between 1887 and 1897 as the seat of the Vicar Apostolic of Nouvelle-Calédonie (created in 1847) with convict labour to plans by a former prisoner, a certain Labulle. It was blessed on 26 October 1890 by Père Xavier Montrouzier, almoner of the hospital, opened on the following All Saints Day, and consecrated in 1893 by the Vicar Apostolic of Fiji, Monseigneur Julien Vidal, before the façade and the bell towers were completely finished ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noum%C3%A9a_Cathedral
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