>Were there cities other than Dublin that had two cathedrals in medieval
Christendom?
i would suppose that Salisbury did, at least for a short time, before Old
Sarum was abandoned and New Sarum up and running?
though i suppose that they could have "decommissioned" the Old (where would
find the liturgy for *that*?) before charging up the New.
wasn't Noyon before the 13th c. part of a double diocese with --what?--
Tournai? (my source for that idea --though i'm not at all sure that it was
Tournai-- is Seymour's _Cathedral of Noyon_, an art hysterical work and
therefore inherently unreliable for Historical matters.)
was there a cathedral in both towns?
then you have the curious state of affairs which transpired in Autun
--not really the same sort of situation, i suppose-- where a very large church
dedicated to St. Lazarus was built in the first half of the 12th century
virtually next to the cathedral (and, *very* curiously,
"oriented" North-South), presumably served by canons of some sort (anyone
know, btw??). Later, the cathedral (by then a post 1200 structure) was
demolished virtually without a trace (a very small bit or two remain) and St.
Lazare took its place as the mother church of the diocese.
and, what about Buda and Pest?
Clarmond and Ferrand?
Ferranti and Teicher?
Nichols and May?
Moe and Curly?
is St. Peter's then the equivilent of what would be, for an ordinary bihsop,
his "palace chapel"? kind of got out of hand, didn't it?
c
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